New services for development

30,000 to be recruited for Sri Lanka Development Officers’ Service and Sri Lanka Development Assistants’ Service

Increasing public expenditure, 30,000 new recruitments will be made to public service under the proposed Sri Lanka Development Officers’ Service and Sri Lanka Development Assistants Service, the Cabinet has decided.

Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella told the weekly Cabinet briefing that on a proposal by President Mahinda Rajapaksa in keeping with the Budget proposals for 2011, the Cabinet of Ministers has approved the establishment of Sri Lanka Development Officers’ Service and Sri Lanka Development Assistants’ Service and to recruit 30,000 personnel to the public service under these two services.

“On a promise given by President it has been decided to establish these two services in the Public Service with the view to provide assistance in the implementation of the development activities of the Government,” he said.

Accordingly, 15,000 graduates will be recruited to Development Officers’ service and 15,000 youths who have passed the GCE (O/L) examination and sat GCE (A/L) will be recruited to Development Assistants’ Service effective from 1 August 2011.

Meanwhile, the Cabinet has also approved a proposal by Public Administration and Home Affairs Minister John Seneviratne to issue a circular to solve institutional service problems of the graduates recruited for priority work of the Government.