Sri Lanka, Oct. 28 -- The Cabinet of Ministers has granted approval to a resolution presented by the Prime Minister to grant approval to fill 8,547 vacancies in various departments and institutions.

The Cabinet approval was granted last year to appoint a committee comprised of officials headed by the Secretary to the Prime Minister to take necessary actions to the quantities of recruitments to be made essentially after identifying requirements, priorities and time frames by reviewing the process of recruitment to the government service.

Considering the requests forwarded to the said committee for filling the vacancies in the posts existing in departments and other institutions under respective Ministries, as per the recommendations made...