Sri Lanka, July 10 -- The Audit Service Commission is contending with an acute staffing shortfall that could weigh on Sri Lanka's audit oversight of state-owned enterprises, with the Auditor General's own observations, embedded within the Commission's 2025 performance report, flagging a vacancy rate of 63 percent as at 31 December 2025, equivalent to 30 of its 48 approved posts.
The commission's own cadre management table, presented separately in the same report, records a marginally lower count of 27 vacancies, or 56 percent, pointing to a three-post discrepancy at secondary level between the institution's self-reported staffing position and the Auditor General's independent tally.
The shortage is most acute at senior management level, ...