By Stanley Samarasinghe
Sri Lanka Administrative Service Association (SLASA) has begun a struggle to prevent the government from appointing non SLAS members for posts in the public service sector. These posts are generally reserved for SLASA members.
In a bid to protect SLASA, the organisation is now insisting that the government remove retired Major General T. D. R. de Silva as Trincomalee Government Agent and appoint a SLASA member instead.

A spokesman for SLASA told ‘The Nation’ that their organisation earlier agreed to appoint Gen de Silva as Government Agent of Trincomalee considering the war situation that prevailed there at the time.
Since normalcy is now restored in the area it is high time the government appointed a person from SLASA as Trincomalee Government Agent, the spokesman said.

Apart from this post, persons who aren’t SLASA members have been appointed as Director General Customs, Director General Fiscal Policy and Director General External Resources, he charged.
The executive members of SLASA expect to take up these issues in their monthly discussion with the authorities on Monday (tomorrow).

According to SLASA sources, during the rule by Britain, all public service top management posts were held by the then Ceylon Civil Service. In 1967, Sri Lanka Civil Administration Service replaced it and all public service posts were offered to its members.

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