The Hon. (Dr.) Nishantha Samaraweera (on behalf of the Hon. Rajeevan Jeyachandramoorthy)

¶ 01 Question to the Minister of Public Administration, Provincial Councils and Local Government: (a) Will he inform this House— (i) whether he is aware that there are graduates among the officers placed in PL 1, PL 2 and PL 3 salary scales according to the Public Administration Circular 06/2006; (ii) if so, the number of such graduates; (iii) whether the aforementioned underemployed graduates will be provided with suitable places of work; (iv) if so, the methodology that will be adopted to implement that; (v) the solution that will be provided to the graduates over 40 years of age, who are among the underemployed; (vi) whether there is a system in place to promote underemployed graduates based on their qualifications without conducting an examination; and (vii) if not, whether such a system will be introduced? (b) If not, why?