‘People’s Remittance Vaasi Kotiyai’ of People’s Bank picks 5th monthly millionaire

People’s Bank picked the fifth millionaire in ‘People’s Remittance Vaasi Kotiyai, Ewannai Dinannai’ draw where the monthly winner of June along with daily and weekly winners between 6 June to 11 July were selected. This event was held at the People’s Bank, Overseas Customer Services premises at Colombo 10 recently.

Accordingly, Rs. 1 million cash prize will be awarded to the monthly winner while five weekly winners will be awarded 22-Karat gold sovereigns and prizes of Rs. 10, 000 each will be presented to 35 daily winners. 

People’s Bank launched ‘People’s Remittance Vaasi kotiyayi’ draw from 1 February 2022 to encourage Sri Lankan migrant workers who work tirelessly to strengthen the country’s economy and build a better life for themselves and their families. 

Under this promotion the Grand Draw winner who will be selected at the year-end will be presented with a grand prize of Rs. 10 million. Additionally, Rs. 1 million monthly winners will be selected every month, 22K gold sovereign weekly winners will be selected 48 times, while 10,000 daily cash prize winners will be selected 334 times until 31 December 2022. All customers who remit foreign remittances to People’s Bank accounts, to other bank accounts through People’s Bank and remittances collected over the counter at People’s Bank branches including remittances sent via WU, Ria or similar channels during the period from 1 February to 31 December 2022 are eligible for the draw. Customers can also increase their chances of winning by remitting more money.

People’s Bank Senior Deputy General Manager (Overseas Customer Services and Transaction Banking) Rohan Pathirage, Deputy General Manager (Corporate Banking) K.N. Senarathne,  Acting Deputy General Manager (Human Resources) K. Nihal, Assistant General Manager (OCS) Aruni Liyanagunawardana, Head of Marketing Nalaka Wijayawardana, Chief Manager (Audit) Mohamed Ruwaiz, Chief Manager (Overseas Customer Services) Renuka Arunasalam, Senior Manager (OCS) Thilini Perera and Senior Manager (IT) Vipula Warnakula participated in the event.