27 November 2019 07:02 pm
Seventeen chairpersons who were appointed for district development committees by President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa received their appointment letters at the Presidential Secretariat this afternoon, Presidential Media Division said.
The New District Development Committee Chairpersons are as follows:
| Wijayadasa Rajapakshe | Colombo District |
| Sudarshani Fernandopulle | Gampaha District |
| Piyal Nishantha | Kalutara District |
| Sarath Amunugama | Kandy District |
| Lakshman Wasantha Perera | Matale District |
| Muttu Sivalingam | Nuwara Eliya District |
| Chandima Weerakkody | Galle District |
| Niroshan Premaratne | Matara District |
| Angajan Ramanathan | Jaffna District |
| Cadar Mastan | Mannar District |
| S. Viyalendran | Batticaloa District |
| Shriyani Wijewickrame | Ampara District |
| Weerakumara Dissanayake | Anuradhapura District |
| Thenuka Vidanagamage | Badulla District |
| Sarathi Dushmantha | Kegalle District |
| Dunesh Gankanda | Ratnapura District |
| Sumeda G. Jayasena | Moneragala District |