Ease of Doing Business Forum today

The Ministry of Finance will be holding the 11th Forum on the ‘Ease of Doing Business’ today 27 January at 2 p.m. at the 4th Floor Auditorium of MILODA, Academy of Financial Studies (Old Times Building), Sir Razik Fareed Mawatha, Colombo 1. 

‘Ease of Doing Business,’ a special forum held by the Finance Ministry under the patronage of Minister of Finance Ravi Karunanayake, has so far paved dividends to businesses by way of removing the impediments that are in their way to bring investment and trade opportunities to the country

Offering of self-inquiry credit report online to public by the CRIB, removal of radiation testing on imported fish, amending policies to permit abandoned fisheries harbours to carry out boat repairing and related activities thereby increasing the opportunity to bring foreign exchange revenue in to the country are some of the recent outcome of this forum.

The Forum will be chaired by Karunanayake. State Minister of Finance Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena, Minister of Industry and Commerce Rishad Bathiudeen, Minister of Public Enterprise Development Kabir Hashim, Minister of Development Strategy and International Trade Malik Samarawickrama, Central Bank Governor Dr. Indrajith Coomaraswamy, Treasury Secretary Dr. R.H.S. Samarathunga, Prime Minister’s Advisor Charitha Ratwatte and Ministry of National Policy and Economic Affairs Advisor R. Paskaralingam are expected to participate at this forum.

This forum will provide a live platform to address the procedural and regulatory issues of the private sector entities and facilitate in finding on-the-spot solutions to uplift the doing-business environment in Sri Lanka. 

The Ministry of Finance invites the private sector establishments and the general public to partake in this forum.