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Finance Ministry statistics show that one billion rufiyaa has been disbursed to councils as grants so far this year. This represents approximately 40 percent of the council grant allocated for this year. The budget for this year allocated 2.5 billion rufiyaa for council grants. In the same period last year, 700 million rufiyaa was disbursed to councils as grants.