A Brief Colonial History Of Ceylon(SriLanka)
Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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Thiranjala Weerasinghe sj.- One Island Two Nations
?????????????????????????????????????????????????Monday, June 12, 2017
President assigns some of PM’s functions to new minister
ECONOMYNEXT - June 10, 2017, 7:29 pm
President Maithripala Sirisena has taken away some of the functions of
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and assigned them to Tilak Marapona,
the new minister of Development Assignment.
The cash-rich Employees Trust Fund (ETF) which was under the Prime
Minister was also taken away and given to Marapona who will now be
responsible, among other things, for the implementation of the ETF Act
of 1980.
Marapona will have to assist the prime minister in monitoring and
evaluation of national policies. The Prime Minister’s responsibility of
coordinating with other ministries on implementation of policies now
becomes a function of Marapona’s ministry.
For the first time ever, two state lotteries were assigned to the
foreign ministry giving Minister Ravi Karunanayake control over the
National Lotteries Board and the Development Lotteries Board (DLB).
Minister Karunaratne, who was shifted out of the finance ministry in the
latest cabinet reshuffle, has been closely associated with a
DLB-funded university scholarship scheme of his mentor, the late
Lalith Athulathmudali.
State banks and the national carrier Sri Lankan airlines remained with the state enterprises ministry of Kabir Hashim.
However, three institutions under the media ministry — the department
of government printing, the National Film Corporation and the State
Printing Corporations – were taken out and given to Public
Administration and Management Minister Ranjith Madduma Banadara.
Minister Mangala Samaraweera who gets additional responsibilities over
media subjects under an expanded ministry of Finance and Media will have
control over state-run media institutions, including Lake House.