Formula submitted to Presidential Secretariat :

A Cabinet of 30

One of the largest single groupings of concerned experts, senior retired civil servants and, academics that emerged recently in response to major national problems, the Campaign for Sound National Policies, has proposed a thirty-member Cabinet of Ministers for Sri Lanka's future government. The set of proposals for 'Ministry Clustering for Enhanced Performance' were submitted to the Presidential Secretariat on Friday and, by yesterday, also to the leaders of all major parties contesting tomorrow's general election, by a delegation from the Campaign which has brought together over 300 of the country's leading experts and planners.

The Campaign was formed earlier this year, in the aftermath of the presidential election "to use the space opened up with the political change to advocate for a renewal of governmental development planning and policy making," Campaign coordinator and leading scholar-activist Prof. Siri Hettigé told the Sunday Observer. Experts brought together by the Campaign had begun developing their set of proposals for 'Sound National Policies' over the past four months. Their report on national policy and policy-making was also finalized last week and submitted to President Maithripala Sirisena and all major party leaders. The proposal for a 30-member Cabinet and coordination of ministry portfolios was formulated at the same time in response to a specific request by President Sirisena himself for a set of guidelines for post-election Cabinet formation, Prof. Hettige, who is also former head of Sociology at the University of Colombo, said.

The proposal for the Cabinet of Ministers is presented below.