Sri Lanka, April 9 -- Director General of the Development Finance Department of the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development Manjula Hettiarachchi noted that forty per cent of Rs. 95 billion allocated by the government in the 2026 budget to promote entrepreneurs in the country has been disbursed to beneficiaries.

More than forty per cent of the loans have been disbursed to entrepreneurs before the end of the first four months of this year and Hettiarachchi expressed confidence that the beneficiaries will receive the entire amount before the end of the next eight months.

The Director General also said that the progress of the first four months of the programme implemented to encourage entrepreneurs by providing financial fa...