Gazette on subject purview of ministers released

22 September 2015 05:53 am

The gazette notification on the subject purview of ministers, have been released, the Government Printer said.

Twenty institutions including the Sri Lanka Central Bank, Exchanges and Securities Commission will fall under the purview of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, who is also the minister of national policies and economic.

All the State banks, which were under the purview of the finance ministry earlier, will fall under Minister of Public enterprise development Kabir Hashim, who will also be in charge of 19 institutes including SriLankan Airlines and Mihin Lanka, while Transport Minister Siripala De Silva will be in charge of the Civil Aviation Authority, and Aviation Services Limited.

Police Department, Dangerous Drugs Control Board, and Prisons Department will be coming under the purview of Minister of Law and Order and Prison Reforms Thilak Marapana.