Pelpita appointed Development Lotteries Board Chief

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Anusha Pelpita

Career civil servant Anusha Pelpita has been appointed as the new Chairman of the Development Lotteries Board (DLB) with immediate effect.

The move comes a few days after he resigned as Secretary to the Ministry of Industries citing his desire for early retirement from the Government service.

Pelpita has been a member of the Sri Lanka Administrative Service (SLAS) for 34 years and announced his intention to retire from the public service pending approval from President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.

DLB was set up in January 1983 with an investment of Rs. 2.2 million each by the President’s Fund and Mahapola Trust Fund. Its intention is to strengthen the financial basis of the President’s Fund via the sale of lotteries both instant and by draw.

It began as the Development Lotteries Centre and then it was transformed to Development Lotteries Trust in 1993. Later, on 12 August 1997, it was again transformed to Development Lotteries Board by the Development Lotteries Act No. 20 of 1997.