According to Northern Province Chief Minister C. V. Wigneswaran, the Northern Provincial Council has only been granted a fraction of the funds it requested for 2015.
The NPC which passed a budget for 2015 on Friday, requested a total of 149.95 million rupees to carry out its planned projects, but has only received 27.2 million rupees from the central government.
Uthayan reports the Chief Minister as saying that the council did not receive even a tenth of the requested funds for certain sectors.
The funding gap has resulted in the council having to cut back on planned development projects in the areas worst affected by the war, including those in housing, road repairs, tourism and social services.