Sri Lanka's NGO Secretariat which, in recent times, strictly supervised non-governmental organisations under the eagle eye of the Defence Ministry, will henceforth come under Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, officials said.
According to the gazette notification listing the subjects under the different ministries issued on Tuesday night, the NGO Secretariat has been assigned to the Prime Minister’s office.
The Defence Ministry, under Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa’s supervision, controlled the NGO Secretariat restricting the activities of NGOs – at the end of the war in May 2009 – and often accused some groups of activity connected to terrorist organisations. Many NGOs were forced to wind up under these stringent rules which are likely to be relaxed by President Maithripala Sirisena’s new administration. – Ends -
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