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Press briefing of Cabinet Decision taken on 2018-10-16
Report on Public Sector Cadre for the Second Quarter of the year 2018
- The Report on public sector cadre for the second quarter of the year 2018 submitted by Hon. Mangala Samaraweera, the Minister of Finance and Mass Media, was presented for the attention of the Cabinet. In terms of the information contained in the said Report, the Cabinet noted that 1,370,885 persons are employed in the public sector comprising of Ministries, Departments, Provincial Councils, Public Corporations, Statutory Boards and Government owned Companies by the second quarter of the year 2018, that officers in the cadre of certain Public Corporations and Boards are engaged in projects for more than 05 years without formal approval and that the attention of the Government should be focused when taking decisions on creating additional posts in the education and the health sectors in the public sector in a situation where the contribution of the private sector in the education and the health sectors has rapidly increased.