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Govt to get tough with bureaucrats who fail to use funds allocated for development

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The Government has decided to take strict measures against officials who have failed to utilise the money allocated by the Government for this year’s development activities under the district development programme and the programme to uplift the rural economy in the hill country region, the Kadukara Dashakaya programme.

After many years, the Government has allocated Rs. 12 billion for this year for these development activities, but the Government has observed that some officials in some districts are sabotaging these programmes under the guise of trade union activities.

A senior official of the Finance Ministry emphasized that these development programmes must be successfully completed in order to achieve a positive economic growth this year.

Thus, the Government’s attention has been drawn on removing public officers who fail to successfully manage the officers under them and calling them to the reserve pool and appointing other officers to those positions.

The divisional secretaries will be entitled for increments based on the handling of assigned work and attendance and there is a possibility of unproductive officers losing increments for five years. The Finance Ministry official said that it is a serious negligence of duty on the part of such officials while enjoying all the privileges they are entitled to from the public money.

The officer mentioned that the funds allocated for this year have not been used for the development activities of several districts, namely, Matara, Hambantota, Jaffna, Gampaha, Mannar, Trincomalee, Puttalam, Polonnaruwa, Badulla and Monaragala and the officials said that the necessary estimates are being delayed.

The amount of money spent in Batticaloa, Ampara, Kurunegala and Kegalle districts too is very low, he added.

It has been revealed that such operations are being carried out at the direction of some elements to embarrass the Government.

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