Sri Lanka receives 250 mln USD from World Bank as budgetary support

COLOMBO, July 4 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka's State Minister of Finance Shehan Semasinghe on Tuesday said the country has received 250 million U.S. dollars from the World Bank as budgetary support.

Speaking to journalists in Colombo, Semasinghe said that the World Bank approved 700 million dollars in June in financing as budgetary and welfare support for Sri Lanka.

Out of that, 500 million dollars are allocated