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The North-East is administered by the Sri Lankan state, through layers that overlap. Naming those layers correctly is the precondition for every figure that follows.
The Northern and Eastern Provincial Councils exist in law under the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. Elected councils have not sat since their terms lapsed; provincial functions are discharged by the appointed Governor and the provincial public service. Provincial Council elections remain unscheduled at the time of writing.
In the absence of a sitting council, executive authority at provincial level runs through a Governor appointed by the President. This concentrates decisions that the 13th Amendment framework had allocated to elected provincial representatives.
Land, police, and major capital allocation sit with central ministries and central agencies rather than with the provinces. Provincial administration is largely a delivery layer for centrally set provision.
District Secretariats, Divisional Secretariats and Grama Niladhari divisions carry the day-to-day administrative load — certificates, land documentation, welfare registration, resettlement paperwork.
Security institutions operate across the same territory under central command. Their provincial footprint, personnel numbers and land occupancy are not published in disaggregated form. This desk records the absence rather than estimating a figure.
Access to particular sites is also shaped by statutory powers held by archaeology, forest and wildlife authorities. These are lawful administrative mechanisms; where their exercise has been challenged, it has been challenged through the courts. SCFR 351/22 before the Supreme Court is the judicial-review anchor this archive cites.
A common reading holds that the North-East effectively functions on diaspora money rather than state administration. The published record does not support that as a governance claim. Provincial administration is state-financed and state-directed. What diaspora transfers do sustain is the household layer — and even there, the destination data required to prove it does not exist in public form. Both halves of that sentence are findings, and neither is an accusation.
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tlte-cite:lka-budget-2026Primary source for the 2026 defence expenditure ceiling (Rs 440,100m) and for central provision to provincial councils. Government-origin: reproduced, never adjusted.
tlte-cite:lka-provincial-councils-financeAnchor for the 2025 provisions (Northern Rs 53,288.57m; Eastern Rs 60,053m) and the recurrent/capital split. Provincial own-revenue is not disaggregated in this source.
tlte-cite:lka-hies-2019Last comparable provincial poverty baseline (Northern 23.8%, Eastern 18.6%, national 14.3%). Predates the 2022 economic crisis — every later inference must be labelled as such.
tlte-cite:lka-13th-amendmentConstitutional basis of provincial councils and of the devolution of subjects. Read alongside the retention of land and police powers at the centre.
tlte-cite:wb-knomad-remittancesPrimary remittance-corridor dataset. Used to size diaspora economic flows without speculative 'Tamil GDP' aggregation.
tlte-cite:cbsl-annual-reportSri Lankan state's own reporting on monthly worker remittances by source country. Pair with KNOMAD for the honesty-index pattern.
tlte-cite:imf-article-iv-lkaMacroeconomic baseline for evaluating the state's dependence on diaspora-driven remittance inflows.