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Who pays
Provincial administration in the North and East is financed by central provision. The figures below are reproduced as published — not adjusted, not combined into any total of this archive's own making.
Recurrent share approximately 81.8%. Capital utilisation reported at 96.3%.
Recurrent share approximately 85.4%. Capital utilisation reported at 89.4%.
A national ceiling, not a provincial figure. It is shown here for scale, not as a transfer.
Debt service obligations constrain the discretionary space from which provincial capital provision is drawn.
Recurrent, not capital
The composition matters more than the headline. In both provinces the overwhelming majority of provision is recurrent — salaries, pensions, routine operating cost. Capital provision, the part that builds anything new, is the minority share, and it is set centrally.
What the arithmetic does and does not show
- It shows that the two provinces are financed centrally, that their provision is dominated by recurrent cost, and that the 2026 defence ceiling is several times their combined provision.
- It does not show that defence spending was taken from provincial budgets. These are separate lines in a national budget, and this archive will not assert a transfer it cannot evidence.
- It cannot show provincial own-revenue, province-level security expenditure, or the North-East share of national capital programmes. None of those are published in disaggregated form.
Anchor sources
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- Budget Estimates and Appropriation — Government of Sri Lanka
tlte-cite:lka-budget-2026Ministry of Finance, Government of Sri Lanka · Treasury, ColomboPrimary source for the 2026 defence expenditure ceiling (Rs 440,100m) and for central provision to provincial councils. Government-origin: reproduced, never adjusted.
- Provincial Council budget provision and utilisation — Northern and Eastern Provinces
tlte-cite:lka-provincial-councils-financeFinance Commission / Provincial Council budget documentation, Sri Lanka · Government of Sri LankaAnchor 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.
- Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) 2019 — poverty headcount by province
tlte-cite:lka-hies-2019Department of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka · DCS, ColomboLast 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.
- Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
tlte-cite:lka-13th-amendmentParliament of Sri Lanka · Government of Sri Lanka, 1987Constitutional basis of provincial councils and of the devolution of subjects. Read alongside the retention of land and police powers at the centre.
- KNOMAD Migration and Remittances Data — South Asia
tlte-cite:wb-knomad-remittancesWorld Bank, Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development (KNOMAD) · World Bank GroupPrimary remittance-corridor dataset. Used to size diaspora economic flows without speculative 'Tamil GDP' aggregation.
- Annual Report — External Sector chapter (Remittances)
tlte-cite:cbsl-annual-reportCentral Bank of Sri Lanka · CBSL, ColomboSri Lankan state's own reporting on monthly worker remittances by source country. Pair with KNOMAD for the honesty-index pattern.
- IMF Country Report — Sri Lanka (Article IV Consultation series)
tlte-cite:imf-article-iv-lkaInternational Monetary Fund · IMF, Washington DCMacroeconomic baseline for evaluating the state's dependence on diaspora-driven remittance inflows.