Budget 2016 and education and health expenditure: Playing numbers games isn’t in accord with good governance principles 

Chief of the IMF Mission to Sri Lanka, Todd Schneider, has questioned the accuracy of some of the figures presented in Budget 2016 - AFP

Controversy over education and health numbers

Monday, 14 December 2015

A controversy has arisen relating to the education expenditure vote in Budget 2016. A section of Opposition Parliamentarians has accused the Minister of Finance of adding some fictional numbers to the budgetary expenditure under the education vote.

Budget 2016 and Education and Health Expenditure Playing Numbers Games Isn’t in Accord With Good Governance... by Thavam Ratna