The official tenure of the Director General (DG) of Sports of the Sports Development Department affiliated to the Ministry of Sports, Shemal Fernando, ended yesterday (13), according to media reports.
However, it was not immediately clear as to what the fate of the cases were, linked to the Sri Lanka Automobile Sports and the Cycling Federation respectively.
As reported in media at the time, the outgoing Sports Ministry DG also courted unwarranted controversy with the former Treasurer of the SLAS Upulwan Serasinghe, who publicly challenged him to disclose his credentials when he laid claim to being both a doctor and professor. However, Fernando continued unperturbed insisting that he has nothing to hide concerning his doctorate or his professorship and vowed that he would only do so at an apt forum, and not merely at the insistence of ‘disgruntled officials’, as he put it at the time.
The Assistant Director General (ADG) of the Sports Ministry is expected to serve in the DGs post in an acting capacity, till the subject minister receives Cabinet approval to fill up the vacant portfolio, as is required by the Sports Law.
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