Cadre

35500

Recruitment

Recruitment to Class III of the Management Service Officers’ is made purely from those who become qualified at an interview for verification of qualifications on the basis of the results of a competitive examination conducted by the Commissioner General of Examination on behalf of Director General of Combined Services. 70% of the total vacancies is recruited on the basis of open stream and more than 30% on limited basis.

Application

The method of application shall be published in the government Gazette by an exam notification.

Open Stream

• Shall be a citizen of Sri Lanka.
• Be not below 18 years and not above 30 years of age on the last day of the month preceding the month in which the closing date for applications falls, shall be of an excellent character.
• Minimum educational qualification – shall pass G.C.E. (O/L) in six subjects and have obtained credit passes for Sinhala/ Tamil/ English language, Mathematics, and two other subjects at in one sitting.
• Shall pass all the subjects is G.C.E. (A/L) except General Paper.

Limited Stream

• Shall be a permanent junior employee in the public service.
• Shall have completed at least a continuous and satisfactory service of 05 years immediately preceding the prescribed date, which fact shall be certified by the Head of the Department and the junior employees who have been confirmed in the post before 26.11.2001.
• Shall pass G.C.E. (O/L) examination with six subjects including Language/Literature and Mathematics.

Current Service Minute and Revisions

Document Title	Date	Pdf	Size
Service Minute of Public Management Assistants’ Service Gazette Extraordinary of Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka No 1840/34	2013.12.11		[217 KB]
Revision No. 01 Gazette Extraordinary of Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka No 2032/26	2017.08.16		[0 KB]
Revision No. 02 Gazette Extraordinary of Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka No 2052/26	2018.01.04		[0 KB]
Revision No. 03 Gazette Extraordinary of Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka No 2140/04	2019.09.09		[36 KB]
Revision No. 04 Gazette Extraordinary of Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka No 2383/06	2024.05.06		[199 KB]
Revision No. 05 Gazette Extraordinary of Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka No 2445/72	2025.07.19		[259 KB]

Previous Service Minute and Revisions

Document Title	Date	Pdf	Size
Service Minute of General Clerical Service Ceylon Government Gazette Extraordinary No 14842	1971.09.29		[0 KB]
Service Minute of General Shroffs' Service Ceylon Government Gazette Extraordinary No 14842	1969.02.21		[0 KB]
Service Minute of Government Stenographers’ Service Ceylon Government Gazette Extraordinary No 15011	1972.05.19		[0 KB]
Service Minute of Typists’ Service Ceylon Government Gazette Extraordinary No 15011/2	1972.05.20		[0 KB]
Service Minute of Government Book Keepers’ Service Ceylon Government Gazette Extraordinary No 65	1979.11.30		[0 KB]
Service Minute of Store Keepers’ Service Ceylon Government Gazette Extraordinary No 301/2	1984.06.11		[0 KB]
Service Minute of Public Management Assistants’ Service Gazette Extraordinary of Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka No 1372/23	2004.12.24		[180 KB]
Revision No. 01 Gazette Extraordinary of Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka No 1462/25	2006.09.14		[29 KB]
Revision No. 02 Gazette Extraordinary of Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka No 1529/7	2007.12.24		[16 KB]
Revision No. 03 Gazette Extraordinary of Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka No 1681/29	2010.11.23		[113 KB]

Circulars on Service Minutes

Circuler No.	Name	Date	Pdf
10/2004	Implementation of Public Management Assistants’ Service	2004.12.30
10/2004(I)	Implementation of Public Management Assistants’ Service	2010.07.06
01/2005	Implementation of Public Management Assistants’ Service	2005.02.25
15/2006	Implementation of Public Management Assistants’ Service	2006.08.03

Circulars on Efficiency Bar Examinations

Circuler No.	Name	Date	Pdf
06/2007	Reimbursement of Training Allowance to Officers Who Satisfy the Requirement of Efficiency Bar Examination on Computer Literacy Prescribed under Section 5:1 of Public Management Assistants’ Service Minute	2007.11.09
06/2007(I)	Reimbursement of Training Allowance to Officers Who Satisfy the Requirement of Efficiency Bar Examination on Computer Literacy Prescribed under Section 5:1 of Public Management Assistants’ Service Minute	2009.02.24
01/2009		2009.
03/2009	Efficiency Bar Examination of the Officers in Class III of Public Management Assistants’ Service	2009.09.03
02/2013	Efficiency Bar Examination of the Officers in Class III of Public Management Assistants’ Service	2013.09.23
15/2006	Implementation of Public Management Assistants’ Service	2006.08.03

Circulars on Salary Issues

Circuler No.	Name	Date	Pdf
17/2008	Rectifying the Salary Anomalies in the Class I and Supra Class of the Public Management Assistants Service	2008.08.22

Circulars on Absorptions

Circuler No.	Name	Date	Pdf
17/2009	Absorption of Health Management Assistants Services into Public Management Assistants Service	2009.10.09
05/2010	Absorption of Government Press Clerical Services into Public Management Assistant Service	2010.04.07
17/2010	Absorption of Employees’ Provident Fund Clerks (Labor Department Clerical Service) into Public Management Assistants’ Service	2010.09.23