New Consolidate Salary Scales

The revised salary scale in respect each Class / Grade are given below.

• Class I (Rs.36, 755.00)
• Class II Grade I (Rs.30, 175.00)
• Class II Grade II (Rs. 29, 935.00 –10 x 645- 8x 799 – 17 x 1050 – Rs. 53,555)

The first and second Efficiency Bars are due before reaching the salary steps of Rs 24,870.00 and Rs. 26,805.00 Per month respectively in the Class II Grade II salary scale.

The EB Examinations

1st EB

• Accounting Procedure
• Administration Procedure
• Department rules and regulations
• Sinhala / Tamil Oral

2nd EB

• Professional qualification which consist of election to corporate membership of a recognized professional body or institution granting the charter.

An engineer who is appointed with full professional qualifications will be placed on the salary step of Rs 26,805.00 per month in the Class II Grade II salary scale, but he will be required to pass the prescribed examination relevant to the 1st EB with in two years from the date of his appointment.

Appointments and Promotions

• Direct appointments are made from those with a Degree in engineering or equivalent qualification, to fill vacancies in Class II Grade II of the service. Apart from such recruitment there is provision to fill 25% of the recruitment grade by appointment on promotion of the Technological Service officers in accordance with the approved scheme of Recruitment and Promotion.
• If with in 10 years of satisfactory service as an engineer in Class II Grade II passes the 1st EB and obtain full professional qualification he is promoted to Class II Grade I from the date he complete 10 year satisfactory service.
• The vacancies in Class I are filled by promotion of engineers in Class II Grade I on the occurrence of vacancies in the respective groups primarily on merit and seniority is a secondary consideration.

Current Service Minute and Revisions

No.	Date	Pdf	Size
Minute of the Sri Lanka Engineering Service The Gazette Extraordinary of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka No 509/7	1988.06.07		[2.12 MB]
Service Minute of Sri Lanka Engineering Services Gazette Extraordinary of Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka No 1836/06	2013.11.11		[223 KB]
Service Minute of Sri Lanka Engineering Services - Revision No 01 Gazette Extraordinary of Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka No 1887/21	2014.11.05		[30 KB]
Service Minute of Sri Lanka Engineering Services- Revision No 02 Gazette Extraordinary of Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka No 1905/07	2015.03.09		[28 KB]
Service Minute of Sri Lanka Engineering Services - Revision No 03 Gazette Extraordinary of Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka No 2006/53	2017.02.17		[81 KB]
Service Minute of Sri Lanka Engineering Services - Revision No 04 Gazette Extraordinary of Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka No 2049/14	2017.12.12		[110 KB]
Service Minute of Sri Lanka Engineering Services - Revision No 05 Gazette Extraordinary of Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka No 2138/27	2019.08.28		[37 KB]
Service Minute of Sri Lanka Engineering Services - Revision No 06 Gazette Extraordinary of Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka No 2190/26	2020.08.25		[34 KB]
Service Minute of Sri Lanka Engineering Services - Revision No 07 Gazette Extraordinary of Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka No 2233/27	2021.06.23		[38 KB]
Service Minute of Sri Lanka Engineering Services - Revision No 08 Gazette Extraordinary of Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka No 2303/04	2022.10.25		[296 KB]

Related Circulars

Circuler No.	Name	Date	Pdf
39/2019	Implementation of the revisions made to the Minute of Sri Lanka Engineering Service by the Gazette extraordinary No. 2138/27 dated 28.08.2019	2019.12.31
39/2019(I)	Implementation of the revisions made to the Minute of Sri Lanka Engineering Service by the Gazette extraordinary No. 2138/27 dated 28.08.2019	2020.11.03

Background of Sri Lanka Engineering Service (SLES)

Before the Sri Lanka Engineering Service was centrally established on 01.10.1971, Engineers required for the Public Service were recruited by the respective Departments according to their needs. Engineers so recruited found themselves subject to varying conditions of employment, and as a result, around 1970 there was a considerable agitation among Engineers in the four Engineering disciplines of Civil, Mechanical, Electrical and Electronics Engineering that promotional prospects were limited, facilities for postgraduates training and practical experience required for Engineers to obtain full professional qualifications were restricted and that the disciplinary procedures in the different Departments were not uniform. As such, the Public Service Engineers suggested the formation of a separate service for Engineers.

The minute on the Ceylon Engineering Service was published in the Ceylon Government Gazette (Extra Ordinary) No. 15001/8 of March 14, 1972 (By the Secretary, Public Service Commission) and the Ceylon Engineering Service was established on 1^st October 1971. This minute was replaced by the Minute published in the Gazette (Extra Ordinary) of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka No. 327/1 dated 25-07-1978.

The Sri Lanka Engineering Service minute was further revised to incorporate certain administrative procedures adopted after the promulgation of the new Constitution and revised Minute was published in the Gazette (Extra Ordinary) of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka No. 296/2 dated 7-5-1984.

All amendments inclusive of the new salary scales for Engineers have been incorporated in the service Minute published in the Gazette (Extra Ordinary) of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka No. 509/7 dated 07-06-1988.

As a result of Public Administration Circular No.06/2006, the Minutes of Sri Lanka Engineering Services was revised and published in the Gazette (Extra Ordinary) of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka No. 1836/6 dated 11-11-2013 and No 1840/2 dated 09-12-2013.