23 MPs head District Coordinating Committees

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President Gotabaya Rajapaksa yesterday appointed 23 Members of Parliament, including veterans such as S.B. Dissanayake and young politicians Angajan Ramanathan and Nipuna Ranawaka who topped in preferential votes in Jaffna and Matara respectively, as District Coordinating Committee Chairmen.

District Coordinating Committee (DCC) is central as an advisory body to the districts. It is chaired by an MP appointed by the President with the GA acting as secretary. The DCC assembles all provincial ministers, all Provincial Council members of the district, and all the chairpersons of local authorities within the respective district. It is the major decision-making body in the district, sanctioning all development projects and programs.

District Coordinating Committee Chairmen are as follows.

Pradeep Undugoda – Colombo
Sahan Pradeep Vithana – Gampaha
Sanjeewa Edirimanna – Kalutara
Wasantha Yapa Bandara – Kandy
N. Nalaka Bandara Kottegoda – Matale
S.B. Dissanayake – Nuwara Eliya
Sampath Athukorala – Galle
Nipuna Ranawaka – Matara
Upul Galappaththi – Hambantota
Angajan Ramanathan – Jaffna
Douglas Devananda – Kilinochchi
K. Dileepa – Vavuniya
K. Kader Masthan – Mannar and Mullaitivu
D. Weerasinghe – Ampara
Kapila Athukorala – Trincomalee
Gunapala Rathnasekara – Kurunegala
Ashoka Priyantha – Puttalam
H. Nandasena – Anuradhapura
Amarakeerthi Athukorala – Polonnaruwa
Sudarshana Denipitiya – Badulla
Kumarasiri Rathnayaka – Monaragala
Akila Ellawala – Ratnapura
Rajika Wickramasinghe – Kegalle