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The council was formed in 1865, it first met in 1866 and derives most of its powers from Municipal Council Ordinance No. 29 of 1947. [1] It is the oldest and the largest local government authority in Sri Lanka which covers a resident population of over 600,000 (as of 2001). It is one of the largest employers in the country with over 12,000 ...
Introduced in 1987 through the 13th Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka, municipal councils became a devolved subject under the Provincial Councils in the Local Government system of Sri Lanka. [3] Until 2017 municipal councils collectively governed 2,765,533 people within a 698 square kilometer area. There were 445 Councillors in total ...
Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 19 August 1994: D. B. Wijetunga: Minister of Home Affairs, Local Government and Co-operatives [29] [30] Nandimithra Ekanayake: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 19 October 2000: Chandrika Kumaratunga: Minister of Provincial Councils and Local Government [31] Richard Pathirana: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 14 September 2001
In Sri Lanka a Member of Provincial Council (also known as Provincial Councilor), is the title given to an elected member of a provincial council. [1] As of 2017, there are 455 members in nine provincial councils.
Based on the Workers' Councils in Yugoslavia, the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP) proposed the formation of Workers' Councils as far back as 1951. This was included in the manifesto of the collation between the LSSP and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and was rejected in the 1965 Ceylonese parliamentary election.
In 1995 a Divisional Council was created for Biyagama which had previously been governed by the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka. [8] In 1997 Moratuwa and Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte Urban Councils were promoted to Municipal Councils. [8] As of 199 there were 309 local authorities (14 MC, 37 UC, 258 DC). All parts of Sri Lanka are governed by ...
Making history in Sri Lanka the Constitutional Council met on 18 April 2016 to make a recommendation for the post of Inspector General of Police. It was the first time in Sri Lanka a Constitutional Council with members represented by many political parties were collectively selected an IGP.
The State Council of Ceylon was the unicameral legislature of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), established in 1931 by the Donoughmore Constitution. It introduced universal adult franchise to the colony for the first time, replacing the Legislative Council of Ceylon, the original legislative body. 1936: 2nd