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Press briefing of Cabinet Decision taken on 2017-06-06
Provision of additional space for the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources
- Recently, the inadequacy of resources of the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources has affected the activities of the Department adversely and in order to be in line with the rapid and positive changes that occurred in the Fisheries Sector in the recent past, it has become necessary to change the organizational structure and the present staff composition and moving to a building with adequate space. Accordingly, the proposal made by Hon. Mahinda Amaraweera, the Minister of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development, to construct a four storey building with a capacity of 432 sq.m. of accommodation by expanding the proposed building to accommodate several divisions of the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources and to obtain the required financial provision from the Budget Estimate of 2017, was approved by the Cabinet.