The report of the Special Presidential Commission to review Public Sector Salaries was handed over to President Maithripala Sirisena at the Presidential Secretariat, yesterday(28).     

The Commission was appointed after a recommendation made by former Finance and Media Minister Mangala Samaraweera .

The President appointed this Special Commission to make recommendations to provide solutions to minimize salary anomalies in the Public Service while focusing on the existing salary circulars in relation to the salaries and allowances of the Public Service employees. The appointment of the Commission aimed to prevent granting ad-hoc salary hikes to selected segments of the state service.

The Commission is chaired by  S. Ranugge and  H.G. Sumanasinghe is the Secretary to the Commission. The other members of the Commission are; K.L.L.Wijeratne, T.P. Collure, C.P. Siriwardene, Sudharma Karunaratne, Janaka Sugathadasa, Dharani S. Wijethilake, Lalith R.de Silva, G.S. Edirisinghe, A.R. Deshapriya,  B.P.P.S. Abeygunarathne, Palitha Abeykoon,  P. Thangamayil, S.D. Jayakody and  M.C. Wickramasekara.