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by Backstage Wed Jun 29, 2016 12:31 pm

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2016-06-29 12:05:27

President Maithripala Sirisena said today that he had decided to appoint a new Governor to the Central Bank within a few hours.

He said this at the Kidney disease prevention programme held in Giradurukotte, Badulla this morning.

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by කිත්සිරි ද සිල්වා Wed Jun 29, 2016 12:41 pm

Any educated guess ?

(The Economics Advisor to the President, Sarath Rajapathirana is a former World Bank Division Chief/Senior Advisor with over 27 year career at the Bank. He is a really well read economist with a deep theoretical understanding and practical experience. He worked in many parts of the World, particularly in East Asia (Lead Economist for Indonesia during its high growth period) and Caribbean/Latin America. He also speaks Bhasa Indonesia and Spanish well).

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by Backstage Wed Jun 29, 2016 12:44 pm

My first choice would be Indrajit Coomaraswamy Second choice Saman Kelegama.

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Sri Lanka CB Governor will be appointed for one year: Minister
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ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's President Maithripala Sirisena will appoint a Central Bank Governor for year, State Minster for Finance Lakshman Yapa Abeywardene said.

"It will be an experienced person," Yapa said. He declined to say who it was or whether existing Governor will be re-appointed.

He said after one year a decision will be taken whether to extend his appointment. He is expected resign in an year.

Under Sri Lanka's moentary law a Governor is appointed for six years.

President Maithripala Sirisena said a 'new Governor' will be appointed within hours.

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by කිත්සිරි ද සිල්වා Wed Jun 29, 2016 12:51 pm

Since I.C. had a sting at the CB once, working there again would be much easier than a complete stranger.
(Those insiders will make anyone's life miserable if he or she is not one of them). Shocked

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by dhanurrox Wed Jun 29, 2016 12:52 pm

Dinesh weerakkody?? Shocked

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by Backstage Wed Jun 29, 2016 12:54 pm

dhanurrox wrote:Dinesh weerakkody??

That would be terrible.

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by කිත්සිරි ද සිල්වා Wed Jun 29, 2016 1:01 pm

ජොන් බාස්ට දුන්නාවගේ Shocked

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by dhanurrox Wed Jun 29, 2016 1:05 pm

Will ranil backed governor become MS backed.All political issues.

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Backstage wrote:Sri Lanka CB Governor will be appointed for one year: Minister
Jun 29, 2016 12:19 PM GMT+0530 | 0 Comment(s)

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's President Maithripala Sirisena will appoint a Central Bank Governor for year, State Minster for Finance Lakshman Yapa Abeywardene said.

"It will be an experienced person," Yapa said. He declined to say who it was or whether existing Governor will be re-appointed.

He said after one year a decision will be taken whether to extend his appointment. He is expected resign in an year.

Under Sri Lanka's moentary law a Governor is appointed for six years.

President Maithripala Sirisena said a 'new Governor' will be appointed within hours.

One year means, there's a high chance of Arjuna Mahendran get another life in one year. Surprised

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by කිත්සිරි ද සිල්වා Wed Jun 29, 2016 1:50 pm

Country needs stability and bring in someone capable, who can get the job done but not a darling of anyone will do the trick.
Give him or her the space and peace of mind to do the required work is all what we need right now.
Are we ready for that yet ?

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by poor boy Wed Jun 29, 2016 1:57 pm

the one and only respectable man in unp is Eran.all others are crooks. if he is appointed i think he can do a unbiased job. president should have a back bone to make a correct appointment without givin in to ranil.

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by Backstage Wed Jun 29, 2016 2:06 pm

Job needs economist, not banker or politician. Macro economist.

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Sarath has all the credentials for the job but with his WB track record will not make him a darling of the left. Very Happy

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by Yin-Yang Wed Jun 29, 2016 3:30 pm

He should be a person who has had some experience in turning around and economy from consumer based to manufacturing based.

And should have capabilities to convince big guys towards his ideas.

He should believe in projects like (Bangladesh) Grameen.

I don't know of any particular person, but heard, as BS suggested, Dr "Saman Kalegama' is a good candidate.

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Or if someone wants to finish it off in a grand manner, how about double appointing the present SEC head to the CB also?

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by කිත්සිරි ද සිල්වා Wed Jun 29, 2016 6:08 pm

Dr Nandalal Weerasinghe Rolling Eyes

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by Ukboy Wed Jun 29, 2016 9:08 pm

I wish it was PB Jayasundara. ( Even though he had no options but grant funds for the king's projects while cutting the funds from other politicians)

We must reduce the government sector jobs. There's no other option.

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by blacknights Thu Jun 30, 2016 5:50 am

Ukboy wrote:
We must reduce the government sector jobs. There's no other option.

This is what my idea as well. They can bridge budget deficit in 2 ways. Increase revenue (tax, etc) and Decrease expenses (capital expenses and recurrent expenses, etc)
From that what is best is reducing expenses as they can't impose taxes like this (our tax collection system is a utter failure. Without developing that imposing taxes will not give any benefit)
So the better way is reduce recurrent expenditure (capital expenditure is a must for economic development)
As UKBOY says reducing wasteful government jobs is the only option. (they too will then join productive workforce without being a burden to the government/general population. And also our labour shortages will also become somewhat manageable. So will not need CEPA, or what ever agreement too Wink

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by Future123 Thu Jun 30, 2016 10:22 am

The major problem we have no foreign investors are coming to Sri Lanka and they are continuously pulling out of SL due to anti investor policies.

As far as the policy makers are investor friendly, we will have serious crisis.

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by poor boy Thu Jun 30, 2016 2:32 pm

sirisena is confident when he is in polonnaruwa.there he promised to his crowd that CB governor will be appointed within hrs. time passed. still no news. he is back in colombo.has ranil over ruled sirisena decision?

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Re: Will appoint new CB Governor: President

by poor boy Thu Jun 30, 2016 8:57 pm

extracted from http://www.andaharaya.com රට තුළ ඉමහත් ආන්දෝලනයට තුඩුදී ඇති ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුවේ භාණ්‌ඩාගාර බැඳුම්කර නිකුතුව නිසා මේ වන විට රට තුළ ඉමහත් ආන්දෝලනාත්මක තත්වයක් සෑම ක්ෂේත්‍රයක් පාසාම උද්ගත වි ඇත.

මෙම භාණ්‌ඩාගාර බැඳුම්කර නිකුතුවේ සිදු වුනා යයි කියන දූෂිත ගණුදෙනුව සම්බන්ධයෙන් විගණකාධිපති විසින් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ පොදු ව්යාපාර කාරක සභාව වෙත ඊයේ විශේෂ විගණන වාර්තාවක්ද ඉදිරිපත් කරනු ලැබුවා.

එහිදී විගණකාදිපති විසින් මහ බංකු අධිපති අර්ජුන් මහේන්ද්‍රන් සිදු කල ගණුදෙනුව ආශ්‍රයෙන් නිගමනය කර තිබෙන කරුනු පහත දැක්වේ.

* වලක්වාගත හැකිව තිබූ රු :889,358,050 ක ඇස්තුමේන්තුගත අවාසිය සහ වලක්වාගත හකිව තිබූ රු : 784,898,755 ක ඇස්තුමේන්තු ගත අවාසිය ලෙස 2015 පෙබරවාරි 27 සහ 2016 මාර්තු 29 දින පැවති භාණ්ඩාගාර බැඳුම්කර වෙන්දේසි දෙකේදි වලක්වා ගැනීමට හැකිව තිබූ එකතුව රු : 1,674,256,805 ක අස්තමේන්තුගත අවාසිය වලක්වා ගැනීමට කටයුතු නොකිරීම පිළිබඳව බලධාරීන් වගකිවයුතු බව නිගමනය කරනු ලැබේ.

* තවද සෘජු ක්‍රමයට භාණ්ඩාගාර බඳුම්කර නිකුත් කිරීම තාවකාලිකව අත්හිටුවීමට තීරණය ගත් 2015 පෙබරවාරි 27 දින සිට 2016 මැයි මාසය දක්වා සිදුකර ඇති බඳුම්කර නිකුත් කිරීම්වලට අදාලව ද ඇස්ත්මේන්තුගත වාසි හෝ අවාසි ගණන කළ හොත් ඉහතින් දක්වන ලද අස්තමේන්තුගත අවාසිය තවදුරටත් ඉහළයාමේ හැකියාවක් පවතීමද බැහැර කළ නොහැක.

* මෙම වාර්තාව සැකසීමේ දී විගණකාධිපති වෙත අනාවරණය වූ කරුණු සහ ඉහත සඳහන් ඡේද වලින් අවධාරනය කර ඇති කරුනු අනුව මහ බැංකු අධිපති විසින් ස්වකීයකාර්යය මෙහෙයවීමේ දී මහ බංකු අධිපතිවරයෙකුගෙන් අපේක්ෂා කරනු ලබන මට්ටමේ වෘත්තිමය විචක්ෂණභාවයකින් යුතුව කටයුතු කර අති බව තහවුරු නොවීය.

* මෙම වාර්තාව පිළියෙල කිරීමේදී විගණකාධිපති වෙත හිමි බලතල හා විෂය සීමාව තුළ කටයුතු කර අති බව අවධාරණය කරනු ලබේ. ඉන් ඔබ්බට සාපරාදී හෝ විගණකාධිපතිට නිගමනය කල නොහැකි මට්ටමේ නීති විරෝධි කටයුතු සිදු වී අතැදැයි යන්න මෙහිදී පරික්ශාවට ලක් නොවුනු හෙයින් එවන් පරික්ශාවක් අවශ්‍ය හඟී යන්නේ නම් ඒ සඳහා විශේෂිත වූ ආයතනයන් හී සහය ලබා ගැනීම සුදුසු බව නිගමනය කරමි.

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