It is reported that the Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has decided to cut the expenses of the Prime Minister’s Office by 50%.
It is also stated that 26 employees who were attached to the Prime Minister’s Office by other government agencies have been sent back to their original institutions and 16 vehicles obtained from other institutions have been returned.
Accordingly, Ranil Wickremesinghe has instructed the Prime Minister’s Office to cut costs by using a small staff and limited resources. The Secretary to the Prime Minister Saman Ekanayake has said that steps should be taken to reduce the expenditure of other government agencies and ministries following this initiative.
96 million was spent on the Prime Minister’s Office in January this year, 96 million rupees in February and 126 million rupees in March.