Third ‘Ease of Doing Business’ forum today

The Finance Ministry will be holding the third ‘Ease of Doing Business’ forum today, at 2:00 p.m., at the fourth floor auditorium of MILODA, Academy of Financial Studies, (Old Times Building), Sir Razik Fareed Mawatha, Colombo 1.  

The objective of this forum is to identify and address the procedural and regulatory issues in doing business just as in the two previous forums conducted by the Finance Ministry on May 14 and June 18.  

The forum will also provide the private sector with a platform to interact with the relevant government institutions and seek responses to their queries. 
The second forum, which was held on June 18, was successful, where the audience showed an active participation and interacted efficiently to resolve the matters of concern towards improving the ease of doing business.

Following the second forum, the Finance Ministry convened a number of side meetings with several government institutions and private sector entities/business chambers, to address important issues of concern that came up at the second forum. 

Further, under the direction of the Finance Minister, most of the government institutions have now established public relations offices within their institutions to provide an efficient service to the private sector entities and the public.  

The Finance Ministry has created a Facebook page for ‘Ease of Doing Business’, which was launched by the Finance Minister yesterday. 

The Facebook page is another channel which will enable the private sector to view and participate the forum live and give in their input and suggestions online.         

The third forum scheduled for today will be chaired by Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake. He will be joined by several other ministers. 

Policy Planning, Economic Affairs, Child, Youth and Cultural Affairs Ministry Advisor R. Paskaralingam and Treasury Secretary Dr. R.H.S. Samarathunga will also be present to lend their expertise in facilitating this exercise.

Private sector entities could forward their queries online through the web portal, which is accessible through the Finance Ministry website (http://www.treasury.gov.lk/) or via email to [email protected]. More details could be obtained from the ‘Ease of Doing Business Unit’ at the Finance Ministry -- telephone: 0112484583 / 0112484818.