PARLIAMENTARY SERIES NO. 236
Date/ Name of the Institution & Ministry
Major Issues & Problems Identified
Comments & Decisions of the COPE
5 70 percent of the total lecture 5. The CAO/AO stated that hours of the Institute had out of the 03 full time been covered as the visiting lecturers, one lecturer is lecturers. abroad, and as such they have to depend on the visiting lecturers. 1 There had been a large num- 1. The Committee was of the ber of vacancies in the acaopinion, that since the demic staff. NIBM is an independent, self-funded institution, It National Institute of should be able to make Business Management the Dept. of Management Services aware of their necessity and obtain apMinistry of Youth proval to revise the salary Affairs and Skills Descales of the academics . velopment Considering the fact that the Cabinet had granted the university status to the NIBM, in the name of „National School of Business Administration, the Committee wanted the NIBM to adopt a methodology to increase the salary scales of the academics, with the assistance of the Treasury and the Ministry. August 16, 2012
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2 The 03 vacancies in the gov- 2. The CAO/AO stated that erning council had not been since the following instiobserved. tutions from which these three members are to be appointed are not in operation, appointments had not been done Sri Lanka Independent Advisory Council, National Development Bank, Commercial Banks Association He further stated that action had been taken to amend the Act. The Committee directed the CAO/ AO to expedite the matter.