The public debate over local government in Sri Lanka has been dominated by the ethnic conflict in the country. For the last 20 years efforts to change and reform local government in the country have focused on devolution as a means to provide increased representation for the Sri Lankan Tamil ...
None of the changes introduced to the local administrative system so far has paid adequate attention to the issue of local autonomy in planning; they were only concerned about implementing the plans drawn by the central government. This loose-coupling between planning and implementation has been, ...
COLOMBO, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- A crucial local government election ended peacefully in Sri Lanka on Saturday as over 15 million voters cast their ballots to elect members to local government bodies, election monitors said. Voting started at 7:00 a.m. local time and ended at 4:00 p.m. l...
COLOMBO, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- A crucial local government election ended peacefully in Sri Lanka on Saturday as over 15 million voters cast their ballots to elect members to local government bodies, election monitors said. Voting started at 7:00 a.m. local time and ended at 4:00 p.m. l...
Local government leaders think AI has the biggest potential to improve services in traffic and transportation (34%), infrastructure (24%), public safety (21%), environment and climate (21%), and public schools (18%), according to the Bloomberg Philanthropies survey. With that in mind, conside...
in favour of a presidential poll to be held after Sri Lanka secures a widely anticipated International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout package and after the crisis-hit country makes more progress in its path to recovery. Government MPs also point to Sri Lanka’s dire economic straits ...
Local government institutions are key stone of the social and economic development of the given country. Sri Lanka has a long historical evaluation process regarding local government institutions. As a modern local government institution that Pradeshiya Saba was established in 1987 at the grass root ...
Writ petition was filed by Retired Sri Lanka Army Colonel W. M. R. Wijesundara seeking an order to suspend the decision of the Election Commission to hold the Local Government elections was postponed to February 23, 2023 for consideration by the Supreme
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The JVP yesterday (11) urged the government to tell the people why it had postponed the local government elections by one year. Addressing the media at the party headquarters in Pelawatte, JVP General Secretary Tilvin Silva said: “Delaying elections amounts to denying the people’s franchise...