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Glossary
Budget and technology terms used on this site, in plain words.
- Rs mn, Rs bn
- Millions and billions of Sri Lankan rupees. Rs 1 bn is Rs 1,000 mn.
- Budget Speech
- The Finance Minister's speech to Parliament. It announces the plans. It is not the law.
- Appropriation Bill
- The law that gives each ministry its money for the year. Its numbers are the ones that count.
- Detailed Estimates
- Large volumes that break each ministry's money into projects and items.
- Head
- The number the budget gives each ministry or department. Head 186 is the Ministry of Digital Economy.
- Recurrent spending
- Day-to-day costs such as salaries and bills.
- Capital spending
- Money for building or buying things that last, such as systems, roads and equipment.
- Voted expenditure
- Spending that Parliament approves each year through the Appropriation Bill.
- Revised estimate
- The updated figure for a year that is still running. It often differs from the original plan.
- Draft
- Not final. All 2027 figures can change at Committee Stage.
- Committee Stage
- The period when Parliament debates each ministry's budget. For Budget 2027 it runs from 21 November to 14 December 2026.
- Deficit
- The gap when the government spends more than it collects.
- % of GDP
- A sum shown as a share of everything the country produces in a year.
- BEFPR
- Budget Economic and Fiscal Position Report. The Treasury's report on the state of public finances.
- MPIP
- Major Public Investment Projects. A Treasury list of large projects and their yearly money.
- Ministry of Digital Economy
- The ministry in charge of digital government, digital ID and cyber security.
- ICTA
- Information and Communication Technology Agency. The government's digital delivery agency.
- DigiGov-SL
- The shared platform for online government services, including a citizen app and government email.
- SLUDI
- Sri Lanka Unique Digital Identity. The national digital ID project.
- GovPay
- The government's online payment service.
- SLCERT
- Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Readiness Team. The national cyber response team.
- NCSOC
- National Cyber Security Operations Centre. It watches government systems for attacks.
- PDPA
- Personal Data Protection Act. The law on how organisations must handle personal data.
- DPA
- Data Protection Authority. The regulator that enforces the PDPA.
- RAMIS
- The Inland Revenue Department's tax system.
- ASYCUDA
- The customs clearance system used by Sri Lanka Customs.
- National Single Window
- One online point for traders to file import and export documents.
- e-GP
- Electronic Government Procurement. The online system for government tenders.
- File page and printed page
- The file page is the position of a page inside the original file. The printed page is the number printed on the page itself. This site shows both.
- OCR
- Software that reads text from a scanned image. It can misread digits.