The Hon. Mayilvaganam Jegatheeswaran
Hon. Mayilvaganam Jegatheeswaran raised a question to the Minister of Public Administration, Provincial Councils and Local Government on transfers of Sri Lanka Administrative Service officers. He asked whether many officers have served over ten years without transfers, what measures are being taken to implement transfer policy, address inefficiency or bias, establish transparent mechanisms to identify long-serving officers, and introduce reforms such as rotational appointments or amendments to the transfer policy.
Verbatim record (translated)
Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 OFFICERS OF SRI LANKA ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE: TRANSFERS Question No. 1506/2025 to the Minister of Public Administration, Provincial Councils and Local Government:
¶ 02 (a) Will he inform this House whether many SLAS officers have served more than ten years without transfers; measures to implement the transfer policy; whether lack of transfers has caused inefficiency and bias at district and regional levels; and measures to address this?
¶ 03 (b) Will he also inform whether a transparent, fixed mechanism exists to identify officers exceeding the recommended transfer period; if not, whether a mechanism will be introduced to ensure fairness and accountability; and the possibility of adopting reforms such as rotational appointments?
¶ 04 (c) Will he further inform whether the SLAS transfer policy will be amended to meet modern administrative standards; and if not, measures to streamline transfers?
¶ 05 (d) If not, why?
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- Hansard, Friday, 5 December 2025 ·No. 23059 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Mayilvaganam Jegatheeswaran. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 5 December 2025. No. 23059. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/23412