Reduce CoL without increasing public sector salaries – IRES

The Executive Director of the Institute of Democratic Reforms and Electoral Studies (IRES) Manjula Gajanayake said that President Anura Kumara Dissanayake should not get his priorities mixed up and he should not tread on the same quagmire his predecessors tread on.

President Dissanayake while launching the National People’s Power (NPP) Parliamentary Election campaign from Hambantota a few days ago promised to increase public sector salaries through the 2025 Budget proposal.

The IRES boss said that increasing public sector wages will only benefit the 1.6 million or so public servants. “I hope the President has not forgotten that he was elected to office by 5,634,915 Sri Lankans and needs the support of a majority of the 17,140,354 registered voters if the NPP is to win a majority at the Parliamentary Election,” he said.

Gajanayake said that he was dismayed that even the NPP’s Economic Committee had failed to adviced the new President that the need of the hour was to reduce the Cost of Living and the price of essentials which would benefit the whole country rather than raise salaries of a few.

He added that it was no secret that at present the public sector was heavily overstaffed and far from efficient and suggested that the President take steps to improve the public service first before burdening the taxpayers any further.

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