President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has issued a Gazette Extraordinary further amending the institutional and legal framework of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry Economic Policies and Plan Implementation. As per the communiqué, published on Thursday (July 08), three institutions which were previously under the purview of the Finance Ministry have been listed under the Economic Policies and Plan Implementation Ministry. Thereby, the Central Cultural Fund, the Buddha Sasana Fund and the Buddhist Renaissance Fund will now function under PM Mahinda Rajapaksa. The institutions gazetted under the Ministry Economic Policies and Plan Implementation are as follows:1. Department of Management Servicesv. Department of External Resourcesvi.

Source: The Nation July 09, 2021 08:03 UTC