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Sri Lanka 75,000 state hiring for skilled grades, military retirees retrained: Deputy Minister

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s planned 75,000 in new recruitments announced in the budget is mostly for skilled grades, and there are plans to ‘rightsize’ the bloated public sector over time, Deputy Minister for Industries Chathuranga Abeysinghe has said. “I think we first have to admit where we are, because it’s been bloated up, not in the levels of executives and skills grades,” Deputy Minister Abeysinghe told a post-budget seminar organized by Deloitte. “Mostly, it’s bloated up at the bottom tier, because previous governments wanted to give jobs to people who voted for them. “What we are trying to do is…

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