The Central Bank of Sri Lanka will hold a special awareness session for Members of Parliament on June 10 to brief them on Sri Lanka’s current monetary policy framework and related economic matters, Newswire reported.
The programme will take place at the Parliament complex and is to be attended by the Central Bank Governor and senior officials, the report said. The initiative follows a request by Deputy Minister of Labour and Deputy Minister of Finance and Planning Anil Jayantha.
The briefing comes as Parliament has been increasingly drawn into Central Bank policy debate. The Committee on Public Finance has questioned senior officials on rupee management and the policy framework, and the CBSL has been pressed publicly on the Treasury–CBSL division of foreign-exchange duties and on the August inflation-target review. A formal MP briefing on the monetary policy framework itself would mark the first whole-of-parliament engagement of this cycle, distinct from individual committee oversight sessions.
No agenda, expected attendance list, or supporting material has been published. The CBSL typically reviews policy rates and the standing rate corridor at scheduled Monetary Policy Board meetings; the most recent decision left the Overnight Policy Rate at 7.50 percent on May 26.
