Colombo (News 1st); The Parliamentary Council at its 6th Meeting on Wednesday (03) approved the nominations made for the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka.

The names of Janaka Ratnayake as Chairman and Chathurika Wijesinghe, Mohan Samaranayake, Udeni Wickramasinghe, Prof. Janaka Ekanayake to serve as members to the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka in terms of the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka Act, No. 35 of 2002 were presented before the Council to which a majority of the Constitutional Council members were in agreement.

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