Daya calls for information

Minister of social welfare Daya Gamage has instructed that information about the elders and persons with disabilities affected by the adverse weather be made available to him immediately.

The ministry says floods have affected 23,000 families in 16 districts, and that 1,500 persons are being given temporary shelter in 30 camps in the Ratnapura, Kalutara and Nuwara Eliya districts.