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No decision yet on Provincial Councils polls

26 Aug 2020

  • 72% of financial allocations for recurrent expenditure  
By Maheesha Mudugamuwa Over 72% of the allocations made to the Public Services, Provincial Councils (PC) and Local Government Ministry would be spent on the recurrent expenditure that accumulated since January this year, Mass Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said. He told The Morning that in the absence of the PC polls, the governors were given the opportunity to continue work, and since no allocations were made since January, a huge sum of recurrent expenditure accumulated. However, when asked whether the Government is preparing for the PC elections, Minister Rambukwella said the Government hadn’t taken any decision yet. At present, all nine PCs are not functioning right now as their terms of office expired. The term of office of the Southern PC ended on 10 April while the Western PC’s term ended on 21 April; the term of office of the Sabaragamuwa PC ended on 26 September 2017, while the Eastern PC’s term ended on 30 September 2017 and the North Central PC’s ended on 1 October 2017. The terms of the Central, North Western, and Northern PCs ended in September 2018, while the term of office of the Uva PC ended on 8 September last year.


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