New CPC Ministers, members sworn in today

Newly appointed Ministers and Members of the Central provincial council are due to be sworn in before Central Province Governor Tikiri Kobbekaduwa at the Governor’s Office Kandy at 2.00 p.m. today. Anusha Shivarasha has been appointed to the vacant provincial council membership created as a result of V. Radhachrishnan being elected as a Nuwara Eliya District Member of the Parliament representing the UPFA.

Accordingly, she holds the portfolio of Industries, Sports, Tamil Education, Land Infrastructure Facilities, Women’s Affairs, Rural Development Hindu Culture and Youth Affairs. She becomes the first woman representing plantation community being elected to a provincial council Ministry, since the establishment of the Provincial Council system in Sri Lanka in 1988.

Former Provincial Council Minister Nimal Piyatissa, who resigned to contest the General Election has been reappointed to the Portfolio of Agriculture, Irrigation, Animal Products, Agrarian Services Fisheries and Environmental Affairs. Attorney-at-Law Sunil Kithsiri Amaratunge has been appointed as the new Provincial Council Minister of Health, Indigenous Medicine Social Welfare Probation and Child Care.