Account Division
Mr. S.D.D. Fernando Chief Accountant
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Vacant
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The Strengths of the Division
Chief Accountant | 01 |
Accountant | Vacant |
Development Officers | 04 |
Pension Officer | 01 |
Budget Assistants Officers | 02 |
Management Assistants | 11 |
Information & Communication Technology Assistant | 01 |
K.K.S. | 02 |
Administration & Establishment Division
Mr. S.B. Udowita |
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Miss. G.D.L. Udaya Kumari Additional District Secretary |
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Mrs. B.H.S.Dhanawardana |
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Mrs. W.D.C.I.Warnakulasooriya |
The main task of the establishment division is to perform administrative duties of the officers who work under the District secretary. The following duties are also carried out by this division.
- New appointments
- Extensions of service
- Retirements of service
- Issuing timber permits
- Preparing jurists list
- Training activities for officers
- Issuing holiday railway warrants
- Issuing loan facilities for officers
- Property loans
- Vehicle loans
- Distress loans
- Bicycle loans
In addition to establishment duties following duties also carriedout by the branch
- Administration and supervision of the 17 divisional secretaries
- Social services
- Timber permits activities
- Election activities
- Training activities for officers
- Participation and contribution for the ceremonial activities of the state
- General duties and disciplinary activities of gramaniladaris
- Appointing graduate trainees
The Strengths of the Division
Additional District Secretary | 01 |
Assistant District Secretary | 01 |
Administrative Officer | 01 |
Translator (Sinhala-English) | 01 |
Development Coordinator | 01 |
Development Officers | 07 |
Management Assistants | 13 |
K.K.S. | 06 |
Drivers | 04 |
Housekeeper | 01 |
Planning Division
Mr. W.P. Samanthilaka |
Vision
Excellence though co-operation
Mission
To contribute at the optimum level to the national development process through proper management of development activities in cooperation with public, private and non-governmental organizations in the district.
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
The Strengths of the Division
Director (Planning) | 01 |
Assistant Director | 03 |
Development Officer | 09 |
Development Assistant | 01 |
Development Field Assistant | 03 |
Management Assistants | 03 |
K.K.S. | 02 |
Drivers | 02 |
Engineering Division
Miss A.A.C.Karunathilaka |
The Strengths of the Division
District Engineer | 01 |
Development Officer | 01 |
Technical Officer | 02 |
Technical Assistance | 02 |
Management Assistants | 03 |
K.K.S. | 01 |
District Disaster Management Unit
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Mr. S.H.M.Manjula |
The Strengths of the Division
Assistant Director (Disaster) | 01 |
District Disaster Management Assistants | 03 |
Assistant Coordinator | 01 |
Management Assistants | 01 |
K.K.S. | 01 |
Driver | 01 |
Agriculture Division
Mr. B.M.U.B. Sarath Chandrasiri |
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Mr. T.M.S. Tennakoon |
The Strengths of the Division
Director (Agriculture) | 01 |
Assistant Director (Fertilizer) | 01 |
Development Officers | 05 |
K.K.S. | 01 |
Driver | 01 |
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.
Mr. Nimal Rajapakshe | Media Officer | 0714445197 |
Mr. Saman Indika | Development Officer | 0779387711 |
Census & Statistics Division
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Mrs. B.G. Kumari Premalatha |
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.
The Strengths of the Division
Senior Statistcian | 01 |
Head Quarter Statistic Officers | 02 |
Development Officer | 02 |
Management Assistants | 02 |
Information & Communication Technology Assistant | 02 |
Data Entry Operator | 01 |
K.K.S. | 01 |
Driver | 01 |
Explosive Division
Mr. Priyantha Jayasena |
Activities of this branch done under main two fields,
- Activities of explosives relevent subject
- 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
Mr. J.A.S.P.Jayasingha |
Samurdi 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.
The Strengths of the Division
District Samurdhi Director | 01 |
Accountant | 01 |
District Samurdhi Coordination Officer | 01 |
Samurdhi Managers | 13 |
Internal Audit Officers | 06 |
Promotion Officer | 01 |
Development Officers | 02 |
Management Assistants | 02 |
Samurdhi Development Officers | 20 |
K.K.S. | 01 |
Drivers | 03 |