Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe has issued an extraordinary gazette declaring that several institutes which had previously been under the Ministry of Investment Promotion will be taken under the purview of the Ministry of Defence.
Accordingly, the Board of Investment, the Department of Immigration and Emigration and several other government bodies will be taken under the Ministry of Defence.
These institutes were handed over to the Ministry of Investment Promotion by the order of Gotabaya Rajapaksa as the President after Dhammika Perera the business magnet was sworn in as the Minister in charge of the subject.
MIAP