PM wishes to provide insurance cover for self-employed

PM wishes to provide insurance cover for self-employed

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe says that steps will be taken to provide insurance coverage for the self-employed.Addressing a meeting of the United National Self-employed Traders Association at Gunasinghepura, in Pettah today, the Prime Minister stressed the need to protect not only large scale entrepreneurs but also self-employed traders.The Premier said his aim is to provide facilities to the smallest social unit unlike in the Rajapaksa regime, when the economy was distributed among a certain elite level.