Examines the potential that the Provincial Council (PC) System holds resolving the conflict between Sri Lanka's ethnic communities and for meeting the concerns of the Tamils, both in terms of the scope of the legal provisions and how these provisions have been implemented in practice. Back...
Map of population by divisional secretariat division in Sri Lanka (Adobe Acrobat format). One dot represents 1000 people. Sources: Department of Census and Statistics http://www.statistics.gov.lk/ and North East Provincial Council http://www.nepc.lk/index.htm. (PDF 903 KB) 12936_2003_41_...
Alliance or TNA [R. SAMPANTHAN]; Tamil United Liberation Front or TULF [V. ANANDASANGAREE]; United National Party or UNP [Ranil WICKREMASINGHE]; Up-country People´s Front or UPF [P. CHANDRASEKARAN]; several ethnic Tamil and Muslim parties, represented in either Parliament or provincial ...
Sri Lanka is divided into nine provinces, which are further subdivided into districts and electoral divisions. The provinces are governed by provincial councils, which have limited powers in areas such as education, health, and local government. However, the central government maintains significant cont...
Official Country Name: Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Region (Map name): East & South Asia Population: 19,408,635 Language(s): Sinhala (official and national), Tamil (national language) Literacy rate: 90.2% Area: 65,610 sq km GDP: 16,305 (US$ millions) Number of...
their presence in the public service is less than 10 percent. Apart from discrimination on the reason of ethnicity and gender, there are discriminations on the basis of caste, religion and region. The dissolution of Provincial Councils since October 2019 has enlarged these discriminations overwhelmin...
SriLankan Cares is the corporate responsibility arm of SriLankan Airlines which plays an integral part in community development and initiatives in CSR in Sri Lanka
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has appointed Admiral of the Fleet Wasantha Karannagoda as the new Governor of the North Western province, a spokesman said. President’s Spokesman Kingsly Rathnayaka confirmed the appointment in a tweet Thursday (09) afternoon. Karannagoda ...
Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe ceremonially declared open the fourth session of the ninth Parliament and delivered the Government Policy Statement today (February 08).
the Resolution welcomed Sri Lanka’s commitments to the devolution of political authority. When reviewing the progress in this matter, there is no iota of doubt that steps towards devolution remain frozen. The powers already granted to the Provincial Councils, particularly over land...