Colombo: The Sri Lankan government has announced stringent new regulations proscribing the blessings afforded to its ministers, a move geared toward addressing public issues over political privilege and accountability.
A circular issued with the aid of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on thursday confined cupboard and deputy ministers to 2 professional motors.
New caps were positioned on their gasoline allowances and month-to-month bills for office, residential, and cell cellphone costs.
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The support personnel for a cupboard minister is restrained to 15 and a deputy minister is limited to 12.
own family contributors or close loved ones can't be appointed as private Secretary, Coordinating Secretary, media Secretary, or Public family members Secretary.
The policies come amidst the continuing debate over the stress put on former President Mahinda Rajapaksa to go away his legitimate house and forego private safety.
Rajapaksa's safety become slashed from three hundred plus employees to just 60 in December.
Dissanayake at a public rally held early this week blamed Rajapaksa, the two-time president, for occupying a costly nation mansion.
"His residence could be taken and most effective a lease equal to 1-1/3 of his pension could be paid," Dissanayake had stated.
The comment drew ire from competition companies who blamed Dissanayake for trying to take political revenge from the man who had ended the island's decades-long tamil separatist movement.
"Mahinda Rajapaksa's personal safety is below chance. The government desires to placed him out on the road," Sagara Kariyawasam, a Rajapaksa birthday celebration spokesman, stated.
The competition argued that privileges prolonged to former presidents are enshrined inside the constitution and enforced thru an act of parliament authorized in 1986. the new authorities continues that they were obligation-bound to implement their pre-election pledge to reduce the privileges of politicians.
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