{"id":48289,"date":"2015-09-29T15:05:53","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T22:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=48289"},"modified":"2015-09-29T15:05:53","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T22:05:53","slug":"all-change-at-central-bank-station-problems-at-sri-lankas-central-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/09\/29\/all-change-at-central-bank-station-problems-at-sri-lankas-central-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"All change at Central Bank station -Problems at Sri Lanka\u2019s Central Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"

Courtesy The Sunday Times<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

As a series of unexpected transfers at Sri Lanka\u2019s Central Bank were effected at the banking regulator causing uncertainty amongst officers on Tuesday, more transfers were likely to be put in place in coming days, informed sources said.<\/p>\n

Fifteen senior officers were transferred from their positions, including a few officials who had given evidence before the Parliamentary Committee that probed the bond issue, the sources said. The bank\u2019s information department officials were not available for comment on these developments. With no statement being issued it was unclear whether these were routine transfers or made for another, unexplained purpose.<\/p>\n

The uncertainty came amidst another issue on Tuesday when Governor Arjuna Mahendran walked into a supposedly \u2018private\u2019 meeting of senior officials including Assistant Governors called to raise concerns about the transfers and the proposed hiring of retired bank officers as consultants. The sources said the Governor was involved in an argument with these officials saying such meetings were not the right approach (in dealing with issues). Those present said in defence that they had a right to discuss these concerns and grievances and this has been a practice in the past.<\/p>\n

None of the officers moved to others positions had advance notice of the transfers. The transfer list issued on Friday by A.M.N. Gunawardana, Director\/Human Resources is as follows:<\/p>\n

1) E.A. Hettiarachchi \u2013 Director\/ITD as Director\/Facilities Management Department;<\/p>\n

2) M.I. Sufiyan \u2013Secretary as Director\/Northern and Eastern Provinces;<\/p>\n

3) Ms. K.M.A.N. Daulagala \u2013 Director\/SNBFI as Director\/North Central and North Western Provinces;<\/p>\n

4) U.P. Alawattage \u2013 Director as Director\/Supervision of Non-Bank Financial Institutions Department;<\/p>\n

5) D.M. Rupasinghe \u2013 Controller of Exchange as Director\/Upcountry;<\/p>\n

6) M.J.S. Abeysinghe \u2013 Director\/CBS as Director\/Southern Province;<\/p>\n

7) U.H.E. Silva \u2013 Director\/FMD as Director\/Centre for Banking Studies;<\/p>\n

8) Ms. Yvette Fernando -Director\/BSD as Controller\/Exchange Control Department;<\/p>\n

9) Ms. C.M.D.N.K. Seneviratne \u2013 Superintendent\/PDD as Director\/Information Technology Department;<\/p>\n

10) T.H.B. Sarathchandra \u2013 Additional Director\/IOD as acting Superintendent\/Public Debt Department;<\/p>\n

11) Ms. S.H. Gunawardena \u2013 Additional Superintendent\/CRD as acting Director\/Bank Supervision Department;<\/p>\n

12) K.H.A.S. Ariyaratna \u2013 acting Additional Director\/STD as Secretary\/Secretariat Department<\/p>\n

13) T.D.H. Karunarathne \u2013 Additional Superintendent\/EPF as Additional Superintendent\/Currency Department<\/p>\n

14) M.S.K. Dharmawardena \u2013 Additional Superintendent\/EPF as Additional Director\/Regional Development Department; and<\/p>\n

15) Dr. M Z M Aazim \u2013 Acting Additional Superintendent as Acting Additional Director\/Statistics Department. \u2013 ENDS \u2013<\/p>\n

– See more at: http:\/\/www.sundaytimes.lk\/business\/problems-sri-lankas-central-bank.html#sthash.tORDTL1d.dpuf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Courtesy The Sunday Times As a series of unexpected transfers at Sri Lanka\u2019s Central Bank were effected at the banking regulator causing uncertainty amongst officers on Tuesday, more transfers were likely to be put in place in coming days, informed sources said. Fifteen senior officers were transferred from their positions, including a few officials who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}