Honorary titles:

Send details to PM's Office

COLOMBO: A special committee has been appointed by the Cabinet of Ministers to investigate conferring of personal honorary titles and awards by various local and foreign organisations operating in Sri Lanka and to set up an acceptable mechanism with regard to the conferring of honorary awards.

The committee is gathering information on such organisations and institutions.

The Secretary to the Prime Minister requested all organisations and institutions that arrange such conferring of honorary awards, if any, to make available the information on their respective institution to reach the following address before November 15, 2008. The public may also provide such information.

Information to be provided:

* Name and address of the organisation/institution that confers the honorary award

* Whether the organisation has been registered or not and the registration number and the details on the nature of the organisation

* The name of the honorary award expected to be conferred and whether on which basis the award is conferred?

Information may be directed to the following address:

Secretary to the President, Prime Minister's Office, No. 58, Sir Ernest de Silva, Mawatha, Colombo 07.