Two new appointments have been made to the top positions at two state media institutions.

Hudson Samarasinghe has been appointed the Chairman of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation while Jayampathy Bandara Heenkenda has been appointed the new Director General of the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC).

The appointments have been made when the state media machinery has come under severe criticism from the ruling camp for being "ineffective".

Samarasinghe, a veteran broadcaster, functioned as the head of the SLBC before the Rajapaksa family fell out of power in 2015.