The Central Bank of Sri Lanka has, without fanfare or publicised press conferences, issued a one and a half page long circular to commercial banks urging them to maintain a minimum percentage of their total loans for six sectors identified as priorities in the said circular (available at: http://www.cbsl.gov.lk/pics_n_docs/09_lr/_docs/directions/bsd/BSD_2017/BSDCircularNo1of2017.pdf).


