Two minority members added to Sri Lanka’s Heritage Task Force for Eastern Province
The Hindu
In a gazette order issued on Monday, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa inducted the two new members to the Task Force, increasing its strength to 18.
The Sri Lankan government has appointed a Tamil and a Muslim to the country’s Task Force on Archaeological Heritage Management for the Eastern Province, which earlier did not have a single member from the country’s minority communities.
In a gazette order issued on Monday, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa inducted the two new members to the Task Force, increasing its strength to 18.
The original panel was announced in June 2020, in which no minority community member had featured. Tamils and Muslims together make up 70% of the Eastern Province’s multi-ethnic demographic composition.
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