OUR STORY

National Salt Ltd. has a long history in salt production in Sri Lanka. It manufactures common salt, iodine mixed salt, crush salt, and Industrial salt. The major production areas are located in Mannar and Elephantpass (Kilinochchi) District, and its administrative office located in Colombo. The salt department was started in 1938 and went through different administrative control and finally it was named as National Salt Ltd from 2001and in June 2021 it is renamed as National Salt Limited and now functioning under the purview of Ministry of Finance. The salt is being recognized as best in quality (96% is Nacl) in compare to the harvested salt in other part of the country. Currently Mannar Saltern produce 6,000MT of raw salt and the Elephnatpass Saltern produce 17,000MT per annum. It has been decided to develop Elephantpass Saltern to produce 20,000 MT/Annum in 2025. The National Salt not only functions as a natural resource extracting center also giving focus on employment opportunities to the vulnerable people in the Mannar and Kilinochchi districts. As at today there are 64 permanent staff and roughly 250 seasonal staff are employed by the institution.National Salt Ltd is governing by the board which comprised by the members represent from Treasury and other government /private institutions and it comes under the purview of Ministry of Finance. The Enterprise Division of the Ministry is monitoring and facilitating the development, legal and accountable matters of the company. As it is a government enterprise it is registered under the company Act. No. 7 of 2007 as a Limited Company to abide for the company rules. Meanwhile the institution is certified by the Sri Lanka Standard Institution to ensure the quality of the product. And also, the company is being audited by the Auditor General Department. Sri Lanka is almost reaching self-sufficient in the salt production. Only close to 3-4% of the PVD salt is being now imported by the food & pharmaceutical industries. National Salt Limited is trying to ensure that Sri Lanka is self-sufficient in the salt production in year 2026.