Sri Lankan President appoints non-Cabinet, state, deputy ministers

Colombo, December 22: Three non-Cabinet, 17 state and seven deputy ministers have been sworn in, it was announced here on Saturday.

According to the the President s Media Division (PMD), Harsha De Silva was sworn in as the non-Cabinet Minister of Economic Reform and Public Distribution, Sujeewa Senasinghe as the non-Cabinet Minister of Science, Technology and Research and Ajith Perera as the non-Cabinet minister of Digital Infrastructure and Information Technology.

Key state ministers included Eran Wickramaratne as the state Minister of Finance and Ranjith Aluwihare as the state Minister of Tourism Development, Media agency reported.