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Sri Lanka has a long history of local government. [7] According to the Mahavamsa the earliest Sinhalese settlements, dating to the 4th century BC, were village based. These villages were used by the Sinhalese kings as a unit of administration. Each village was independently administered.
The normal term of a local authority is four years but the law allows the central government to extend this by a further year. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] The term of the 234 local authorities (3 MC, 30 UC, 201 DC) that had their election on 17 March 2011 was due to expire on 31 March 2015 but on 27 March 2015 their term was extended to 15 May 2015.
The Gazette is published in Sinhalese, Tamil, and English which are three official languages of Sri Lanka. It publishes promulgated bills, presidential decrees, governmental ordinances, major legal acts as well as vacancies, government exams, requests for tender, changes of names, company registrations and deregistrations, land restitution notices, liquor licence applications, transport ...
Local Government Secretaries; Name Took office Left office Title Refs Nihal Jayathilaka: 25 April 2010: Local Government and Provincial Councils Secretary [60] [61] R. A. A. K. Ranawaka: 12 July 2012: Local Government and Provincial Councils Secretary [62] J. Dadallage: 19 January 2015
On 1 January 2002 local authority elections were called for the entire country. [32] [33] It was later announced that elections would be held on 25 March 2002 in the north and east, and on 20 March 2002 in the rest of the country. [34] [35] The normal life term of Sri Lankan local government bodies is four years. The life term of JMC expired in ...
Local elections were held in Sri Lanka on 17 March 2011, 23 July 2011 and 8 October 2011 to elect 4,327 members for 322 of the 335 local authorities in the country. 13.7 million Sri Lankans were eligible to vote in the election.
The Panadura District Town Council was established by a Gazette dated 13 January 1922. Previously, there had been a local governance institution called the Sanitary Board. The newly established Town Council met for the first time in January 1923 at the Panadura Sanitary Board Inspector's office. Dr. E. S.
Sri Lanka's last local government elections in 2018 resulted in the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) securing a majority with 40% of the vote. [6] [7] [8]Gotabaya Rajapaksa, contesting under the SLPP, subsequently won the 2019 Sri Lankan presidential election, while Mahinda Rajapaksa led the SLPP to victory in the 2020 Sri Lankan parliamentary election.