Our Vision
Prosperity through Good Governance
Our mission
To implement government policies and programmes through divisional secretariats and other government institutions with the active participation of the private sector and non-government sector to raise the living standard of the people in Ratnapura District.
Objective
Acting as the District Representative for all Government Ministries and Departments in the District and Coordinating the Goals, Objectives and Functions of each department.
Key Functions of the District Secretariat
- Coordinating government functions.
- Achieving the tasks assigned by law through officers and organizations at the village level and at the divisional level.
- Acting as a representative of other Ministries and Departments .
- Collecting revenue relating to various Heads .
- Implementation of the Decentralized Budget Programme .
- Assisting the Provincial Council in its functions .
- Acting as the leading institution for organizing cultural, religious and other contemporary state festivals at the national and district levels.
- Acting as the representative of the Elections Commission during all the elections .
- Planning, organizing, implementing and supervising the development affairs in the district through conducting committees such as District Coordinating Committee, Agriculture Committee, Environment Committee, Nutrition Committee, Dengue Eradication Committee, and Housing Committee.
- Supervision of administration affairs in 18 Divisional Secretariats and 575 Grama Niladari offices in the district .
- Acting as a subsidiary body of all Government Ministries and Departments in the District and coordinating the goals, objectives and functions of the respective Departments .
- Organizing, implementing, supervising, monitoring and stabilizing disaster management activities by acting as the Government Agent in the event of extensive natural disasters such as droughts, floods, hurricanes and landslides.
- Registration of deeds and coordination of registration of Birth Death and Marriages in the district and issuing certified copies thereof.
- Coordinating the pensions programme in the district.
- Acting as an effective response agency for public grievances.
- Acting as a public authority implementing the provisions of the Right to Information Act.