No funding cuts for Provincial Councils: Ravi K
Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake yesterday stressed that funds allocated to provincial councils by the Central Government through its Budget 2017 had not been reduced.
In a statement released by his office, the Minister claimed that there was no basis for the charges made by certain provincial council chief ministers that Budget 2017 had curtailed the amount of money allocated to provincial councils compared to previous budgets.
The Minister’s statement howeve