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Sri Lanka to hire 60,000 state workers as people pay more taxes after default

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka planning to 60,000 state workers in the future to fill ‘vacancies’ after allocating tax money to to hire 30,000 workers in the current year, a media report said. Minister of Public Administration, Provincial Councils and Local Government Chandana Abeyratne was quoted as saying by the online portal of Sri Lanka’s Newsfirst televison that the process to fill positions in the Sri Lanka Administrative Service, Sri Lanka Engineering Service, Planning Service, and Accountants’ Service has already started. Based on the recommendations of a Cabinet-appointed subcommittee, 226 candidates are being recruited to the Sri Lanka Engineering Service, the…

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