Sri Lanka appoints 37 new State Ministers
Sri Lanka appointed over 30 new State Ministers today (September 08) at the President’s Office in Colombo.
The State Ministers took oaths in the presence of Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe.
- Jagath Pushpakumara – State Minister of Foreign Employment Promotion
- Ranjith Siyambalapitiya – State Minister of Finance
- Lasantha Alagiyawanna – State Minister of Transport
- Janaka Wakkumbura – State Minister of Provincial Councils and Local Government
- Mohan Priyadarshana de Silva – State Minister of Agriculture
- Rohana Dissanayake – State Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs
- Lohan Ratwatte – State Minister of Plantation Industries
- Indika Anuruddha – State Minister of Power and Energy
- Sanath Nishantha – State Minister of Water Supply
- Dilum Amunugama – State Minister of Investment Promotion
- Vijitha Berugoda – State Minister of Piriven Education
- Siripala Gamlath – State Minister of Highways
- Shantha Bandara – State Minister of Mass Media
- Kanaka Herath – State Minister of Technology
- Shehan Semasinghe – State Minister of Finance
- Thenuka Vidanagamage – State Minister of Economic Development and Housing
- Pramitha Bandara Tennakoon – State Minister of Defence
- Arundika Fernando – State Minister of Urban Development and Housing
- Tharaka Balasuriya – State Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Anuradha Jayaratne – State Minister of Justice and Prisons Reforms
- Sathasivam Viyalanderan – State Minister of Trade
- Sisira Jayakody – State Minister of Indigenous Medicine
- Piyal Nishantha de Silva – State Minister of Fisheries
- Prasanna Ranaweera – State Minister of Small and Medium-Scale Enterprise Development
- D.V. Chanaka – State Minister of Conservation of Wildlife and Forest Reserves
- D.B. Herath – State Minister of Livestock Development
- Shasheendra Rajapaksa – State Minister of Irrigation
- Dr. Seetha Arambepola – State Minister of Health
- Kader Masthan – State Minister of Rural Economy
- Ashoka Priyantha – State Minister of Home Affairs
- Aravindh Kumar – State Minister of Education
- Geetha Kumarasinghe – State Minister of Women and Child Affairs
- Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan – State Minister of Rural Road Development
- Suren Raghavan – State Minister of Higher Education
- Diana Gamage – State Minister of Tourism
- Chamara Sampath Dasanayake – State Minister of Primary Industries
- Anupa Pasqual – State Minister of Social Empowerment
Sri Lanka with 22 million people is facing its worst economic turmoil since independence from Britain in 1948. Foreign exchange reserves have dropped to historic lows, leaving the country struggling to pay for essential imports of fuel, food and medicine.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe remains Finance Minister, Parliamentarian Ranjith Siyambalapitiya and Shehan Semasinghe were sworn in as State Ministers in the Finance Ministry.
Sri Lanka secured a staff-level agreement for a $2.9 billion bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) earlier this month but faces an uphill battle to negotiate repayments of billions of dollars with creditors.
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Heavy burden on the already depleted SL Economy & negative impact on debt re-structuring. What is these IMF experts are doing ? Who is to bell these greedy politicians ! Innocent & poor Sri Lankans are daily struggling for their survival but these politicos have no mercy on them. God has to save them from the clutchs of poverty.
The ‘UPHILL’ battle is to service the loss making parastatals with State Revenue.
The Government should do its work (governance and regulation) and let the COMPETITIVE services that it provides via parastatals be subject to market competition.
This economic crisis calls for a SYSTEM change and provides a golden opportunity to walk away from providing COMPETITIVE services.
RW was, the other day, mourning about the corrupt state of the current Stock Exchange. The current one should either be abolished and/or New Bourse be constituted under strict regulation.
Thereafter, list all parastatals in the Bourse. The tech savvy and governance/environmentally conscious younger generations will respond.