By: Isuru Parakrama
Colombo (LNW): The government has decided to issue a circular banning business class foreign travels requisitioned by senior government officials including the President’s Secretary and the Prime Minister’s Secretary during official foreign tours.
The relevant circular will be issued within this week, and the move comes in in compliance with the government’s policy of slashing government expenditure to address the country’s economic crisis, revealed President’s Secretary Saman Ekanayake.
The President’s Secretary emphasised that the government officials too shall be making commitments when the people of the country are suffering.
The relevant circular will also be imposing a spending limit on the hotels checked in by government officials during their foreign visits.
Among the government officials entitled to business class foreign tours were the judges of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal, the Cabinet Secretary, the Ministerial Secretaries, the Attorney General and the Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL).
