Planning Division

Mr. M.K.L. Jayasingha  Planning Director

Goals

• Expansion of economy opportunities for income and employments.
• Enhancing the living standard of the people.
• Creation of better environment.
• Empower of Sustainable House Hold Economic Unit.
• Expansion of  Rural infrastructure facilities.

Objectives

• Sustainable development of  house hold units of  575 G.N. Divisions in the Seventeen Divisional Secretariats.
• Improvement of  Rural  Infrastructure Facilities as need.
• Increasing sectoral distribution of  Gama Neguma and DCB allocation of the rural area in the District.
• Achieving 100% both physical and financial Progress under the District Development Programme.

Activities

• Facilitating Development policy of the District.
• Overall Planning and Programming of the District Development Programme with the following major components.
• Economic Development Planning.
• Structural Planning.
• Infrastructure facilities and public utilities planning.
• Facilitation of Private Sector investments.
• Promotions of Socio Cultural and Tourism.
• Overall Coordination, Monitoring, and progress review of the Development Programmes.
• Implementation of Decentralized Capital Budget Programme.
• Implementation of Divi Neguma Programme.
• Implementation of Gama Neguma Programme.
• Implementation of Provincial Road Development Programme.
• Preparation of Consolidated District Implementation Programme.
• Updating of data for Divisional level Diagnostic and problems identification exercise.
• Human Resources development activities in the district.
• Development of documentation of the development related data and publication and studies and surveys.
• Public awareness programme and publication.
• Preparation of resources profile for DS Level.
• Preparation of resource profile for Grama Seva Division Level.
• Facilitating Divi Neguma Development policy in the District.

Functions of the District Planning Secretariat

• Preparation of Annual Integrated District Development Plan
• Preparation and Implementation of Decentralized Budget Programme
• Preparation and Implementation of  Divi Naguma Programme
• Preparation and Implementation of Provincial Road Development  Programme
• Preparation of  District Development Action Plan
• Updating Divisional Level Resource profile
• Strengthening and maintaining District Operation Room
• Implementation Rural Economic Development Programme
• Conducting and Facilitating to District Coordinating Committee Meeting
• Conducting Progress review Meetings
• Conducting Divisional Level Diagnostic and Problems Identification survey exercise
• Other Development related activities

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Engineering Division

Mr. T.S. Amarasinghe District Engineer

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District Disaster Management Unit

Mr. S.H.M.Manjula Assistant Director (Disaster)

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Agriculture Division

Mrs.H.P.W.Nilanthi Director (Agriculture)

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Internal Audit  Division

Mr.W.P.D.M.J.Perera Chief Internal Auditor

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Media Unit

Government Department of Information established media units in every district 19 years ago. According to the programme an media unit established in Ratnapura district secretariat and named it as Ratnapura district media unit.

By this district media units government expected to carry propaganda activity among people about development activities of the district. Awaring people about development programmes of government was the expectation. For this purpose employed the state media as well as printed media.

Main activity of this unit is  recognizing progress and problems and all data of projects implementing in the district done with allocations of decentralized budget and provincial councils and other resources for the development of Ratnapura district  and issue them to all media. specially  details of  district coordinating committee and district Agriculture committee holding under the supervision and operation of district secretary and collected by participating meetings and these information should issue to journalists of the district by coordinating them. And information of meetings ,workshops and ceremonies holding in the district  should issue to the media by coordinating them.

Within the relevant period  Ratnapura district media unit  has been done following activities under the approval of district secretary.

• Covering all committee meetings and issuing information to media.
• Collecting reports published in press media.
• Coordinating development activities of various branches of Ratnapura district secretariat  and issuing relevant reports to media.

Census & Statistics Division

Mr. - senior Statistcian

 Responsibilities

• Counting activities
• Survey activities
• Collecting general data
• Preparing statistical hand book
• Collecting special data

Counting Activities

• Population and houses counting
• Agricultural survey
• Industries survey
• Trades and services survey

Survey Activities

• Estimating paddy harvest
• Labor force survey activities
• Home units income and expenditure survey
• Annual industrial survey
• Quarterly industrial productions survey
• Annual construction industries survey
• Coconut productions cost survey

General Data Collection Activities

• Paddy statistics
• Dry land cultivation statistics
• Animal statistics
• Statistics of animal killed for meat
• Buildings statistics
• Local government bodies statistics
• Urban retail prices collecting
• Manufacturers price collecting

Preparing Annual Statistical Hand Book

• Preparing hand book with up dated data  gathered by field officers attached to divisional secretariats.

Special Data Collecting Activities

• Collecting data for special surveys ordered by the department.
• International prices comparing programme.

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Explosive Division

Mr. Priyantha Jayasena Asst.Controller of Explosive

 Activities of this branch done under main two fields,

1. Activities of explosives relevent subject
2. Activities of fire arms relevent subject

Activities of Explosives Relevant Subject

Under this subject explosive permits or explosive licences are issued relevent to use of technical explosives.

Issuing of Explosive Permits

• When commercial level mineing activities explosive permits are issued for requirements of explosives.
• When non commercial level mineing if there is a explosive requirement explosive permits are issued for the purpose.
  • When developing a land to blast and remove obstacles.
• When making a foundation or digging a well to blast obstacles.
• For various industries (non digging industries) to use explosives permits are issued.
  • For ink/paints productions
  • For boxes of matches production
  • For rubber related Productions

Issuing of Explosives Licenses

• For supplying of explosives.
• For manufacturing of explosivs.
• For importing of explosives import licenses
• For exporting of explosives export licenses.

Activities of Fire Arms Subject

• Gun licenses issueing for cultivations protection.
• Gun licenses issueing for animal husbandary.
• Issueing cartridges for these licenses.
• Recomanding licenses for cultivation protection, animal husbandary and life protection.

Special Activities of Explosives Branch

• Attend various test blasting and do necesasary recomandations .
• Participating inspections for examinig the quallity of imported explosivs .
• Doing field inspections at industries on these explosives .
• Holding workshops to give technical knowledge for fire work industry and mineing industry .
• Safely destroying of date expired and unusable explosives.

Samurdhi Division

	Mrs. C.L. Jayasuriya District Samurdhi Director		Mrs. K.M.A.S.N.Iresha Samurdhi Accountant

Samurdhi programme can be introduced as a development programme which centered the low income earning and low privileged family groups and community and act to eliminate their poverty and create a reasonable society to confirm their rights .

Promoting of livelihood economic development activities,food security confirming for the family,guiding the community for saving and maintaining micro financial bank system to supply people micro financial loan facilities to uplift their livelihood development,organizing people for a national level activities by promoting,developing physical and social infra structural facilities of people, implementing diriyapiyasa housing programme centering the family,implementing social security programmes,implementing scholarship programs for children of low income families,and organizing kekulu children societies and competitions to improve their talents,developing attitudes by implementing social development programmes,implementing samurdi subsidiary programme for low income families and participating to implement divineguma programme for organizing people for a national development activity like wise implement various programmes to develop from the person tofamily society and village by the samurdi programme.

Implementing Programmes

• Bank programme
  • Savings activity - accepting savings,members,non members,groups,diriya matha,lama sisuraka,kekulu,compulsory.
  • Loan programme - self employment loans,housing loans,consumer loans,distress,Mihijaya,Kirula,Divineguma,Isura.
• Social development programme
  • Diriya Piyasa housing programme
  • Anti narcotic programme
  • Children societies programme.
• Social security programme.
• Livelihood development programme.
• Divineguma homegarden programme.
• Samurdi subsidiary programme.

Samurdi programme implemented in 575 gramaniladari divisions in Ratnapura district by 42 bank societies employed 69 samurdi managers and 868 samurdi development officers for this purpose.

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