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The appointments of heads to State corporations, boards and other institutions would be made through a selection board to ensure only the qualified and professionals would be appointed as chairpersons and directors, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said yesterday.
Addressing the newly appointed ministers and to-be appointed ministers at the Presidential Secretariat, President Rajapaksa said the statutory bodies and corporations have become loss-making institutions in the past.