Lotteries Board Back to Finance Ministry

In  the small recent cabinet reshuffle where, Finance and Media Ministry  was assigned to Mangala Samaraweera and Foreign Ministry portfolio was given to Ravi Karunanayake, on request made by him  National Lotteries Board (NLB) and Development Lotteries Board(DLB) were  brought  under the Ministry of  Foreign Affairs .

Since, Ravi Karunanayake has resigned from his Foreign Ministry portfolio, a gazette notification has been issued enabling the transfer of the Development and National Lotteries Boards back to the  Ministry of Finance.