Don’t deploy trainee graduates to Covid-19 programme: EC
The Elections Commission (EC) has instructed the government not to proceed with its decision to deploy trainee graduates to the health programme to control the Covid-19 viral infection.

The Elections Commission (EC) has instructed the government not to proceed with its decision to deploy trainee graduates to the health programme to control the Covid-19 viral infection.
In a letter to both the Secretaries of the Ministry of Health and Public Administration and Home Affairs, EC Chairman Mahinda Deshapriya yesterday has informed that on the instructions of the EC, the government has to postpone the graduate trainee programme until the conclusion of the Parliamentary polls.
Later, the EC based on the information it received also instructed in late March that the government must not pay the March stipend or engage trainee graduates for Covid-19 prevention programme without the permission of the EC.