Account Division

	Mrs. B.M.A. Chandrika Chief Accountant
	Mr. M.B.K. Jayathilake Accountant

Financial Assistant - Fr 115, Fr 135 Shroff Duties & Supervision of the Duties

District Secretariat - Colombo Financial Progress-2014

Administration & Establishment Division

	Mrs.Thilanka Weththasinghe Additional District Secretary
	Mrs. B.A.N. Dilrukshi Assistant District Secretary
	Administrative Officer

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 13 divisional secretaries
• Buddhist and cultural affairs, (Wesak festival organizing and Bellanvila and Kotte perahera activities)
• Social services
• Disaster management.(floods, tsunami)
• Timber permits activities
• Housing development activities
• Agriculture development activities
• Election activities
• Training activities for officers
• Participation and contribution for the ceremonial activities of the state
• General duties and disciplinary activities of gramaniladaris
• Computerizing the registering of births, marriages and deaths in the district
• Appointing and all other activities of registrar of birth,marriage and death
• Appointing graduate trainees

Planning Division

	Planning Director
	Mr. D.L.W.D. Samarawickrama Asst Director Planing
	Miss. Kusini Karunarathna Asst Director Planing
	Mrs. Sakunthala Dayananda Asst Director Planing

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  557 G.N. Divisions in the thirteen 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.
• Updating & Completing of Resource Profile in all D.S. Division before the end of 2nd quarter in every year.
• Updating district Data base system before the end of 2nd quarter in every year.

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

• Development Work Programme - Completed Projects
  [ PDF - 693KB ]
• Development Work Programme - Project Progress Summary
  [PDF - 318 KB]

Engineering Division

Mr. D.C.N. Kalansooriya District Engineer

Has existed for more than 10 years in the District Secretariat Colombo with the objective to providing practice of Engineering to serve the public sector. The activity of engineering division has become broader with time and, at present Nine officers are eligible to serve the public sector.

One of the key functions of the division is, to ensure the quality standards of all constructions in the Colombo District under the Authority of the District Secretary and Conduct Training Programmers to maintain a quality standards of the Technical officers.

The Strengths of the Division

Social Responsibilities

• Ensure the safety and interest for well-being of the public.
• Ensure that society’s funds and resource are well used.
• Concern about the impact of engineering projects on environment and society.
• Refusing to work on a particular project Violating above
• Concern about the legality of all projects before Start the work.
• Commitment to educate staff about Social responsibilities.
• Responsible for all the action taken hence the impact of the action is on the society and the people.
• Conduct training programmers to update the knowledge of the officers.

To Ensure the Social Responsibilities

• Conduct price fixing committee to maintain a reasonable fixed price during the current year.
• Conduct procurement process to select suitable contractors to offer new projects.
• Field visits to maintain the standard of the construction.
• Collect test report to maintain quality of the construction.
• Conduct progress review meeting to maintain the progress of the construction.

• Contract Award From Year 2014 January to 2014 December
  [PDF - 3MB]
• District Price Committee Report 2015 1st Half
  [PDF - 2 MB]

District Disaster Management Unit

Mr. Disaster Management Officer

Responsibility

District disaster management coordinating unit has established an emergency operation unit to cover 14 divisional secretary divisions to operate around the clock to when any disaster  coordinate relevant institutes and take action to minimize the disaster and do relief activities at post disasters.

Minimizing Disasters

• Implement projects to minimize disasters, 
• For minimizing earth slips

Disaster Preventing

Kalutara District disaster management unit is doing special activity to save people by preventing disasters.  As follows,

Agriculture Division

	Vacant Director
	Mr. H.M.G.N.K. Kaluhendiwala Assistant Director - පොහොර

Purpose

• Department of Agriculture to meet the goals of the development of agriculture in the Colombo district
• Perform for the coordination role of the district and local levels optimize the contribution of agriculture to use other line departments and the private sector

• Development Programs - 2014
  [PDF - 748 KB]

Sports Division

	Mr. P.S. Pemachandra District Sports Officer
	Mrs. M.P.S. Rangika District Sports Trainer

Registered sports clubs with representing sports people in Colombo district are in 494 clubs. Details of competitions held are as follows.

Details of allocations as follows,

• Kreeda Shakthi Programme
  [PDF - 415 KB]

Research & Communication Unit

Mrs. M.M.K. Dilrukshi Walpola Assistant District Secretary

Objectives

Session is under construction

Main Activities

Session is under construction

On Going Project

Session is under construction

Media Unit

Government Department of Information established media units in every district 12 years ago. According to the programme an media unit established in Colombo district secretariat and named it as Colombo 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 Colombo district  and issue them to all media. specially  details of  district development committee and district coordinating 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  Colombo district media unit  has been done following activities under the approval of district secretary.

• Covering all committee meetings and issuing information to media.
• Covering all the workshops held under the Colombo district strategic development plan.
• Covering and propagating by media about tournaments organized by Colombo district public service sports association.
• Collecting reports published in press media.
• Coordinating development activities of various branches of Colombo district secretariat  and issuing relevant reports to media.

Measurements Standard Unit

Mr. Rajaguru Rajakaruna WijayanandaGane Bandaralage Nandimithra Hulangamuwa Inspector of Measurements Services & Devices (Office In Charge)

Measurement Units, Standards and Service Department (MUSSD) Its Functions

            Measurement Units, Standards and Services Act No 35 of 1995, MUSSD function under the purview of ministry of industry and Commerce.  The department is responsible for, providing accurate and reliable measurement procedures and metrology services, safeguarding the interests of the consumer, maintaining and updating the National Measurement Standards in conformity with the international measurement system by implementing the law and regulations of this act.

Vision :-

            Accurate and reliable measurements for well protected customer community.

Mission :-

            “To establish, maintain & disseminate the national measurement standards in compliance with international standards, ensuring justice & equity for producers, traders, metrological & other service providers &Consumers, through the regulatory & service activities based on measurements to uplift the quality of life and standards of sri Lankans”

Measurements Units, Standard & Service Division and Its Functions.( Legal Metrology )

            Legal Metrology concerns the field of legal control of measurement. It is the process of certifying measures and measuring instruments to be complied with measurement laws in the country after the inspection of such instruments and measures according to the legal requirements on the use of measuring instruments. Necessary legal provisions have been provided via the act No. 35 of 1995. Accordingly, law and regulations made are implemented throughout the sectors like health, public safety, environment, enabling taxation, protection of consumers and fair trade.

            Activities under legal metrology implemented by Measurement Units, Standards &Service Department have been defined in the act and its regulations. Weighing and measuring found in all the commercial transactions are controlled by measurement law. The act empowers the department to regulate legal metrological activities in the following ways.

    Calibration of working standard and establishment of such standards in district basis ( according to the act the District Secretary serves as the Superintendent of Measurement Service also and working standards are kept under the custody of him )
    Initial and annual verification of weights, measures, weighing and measuring instruments used in trade.
    Annual registration of manufacturers, repairers and sellers of weights, measures, weighing and measuring instruments used in trade.
    Protect consumers by implementing the penal section of the act
    Consumer awareness on Legal Metrology
    Inspection and control of per-packed commodities
    Verification of measuring instruments related to health sector, environment protection, and road safety
    Prosecution against persons who commit fraud measurements by conducting market raids

Kalutara Measurements Units, Standard & Service Division.

01        Divisional secretariat Division                                                       14

02        Gramaniladari Division                                                                 762

03        Stamping centers                                                                     17

04        Number of Units       (2017)                                                      27,153

05        Total Stamping fees (2017)                                                       12,672,325.40

Census & Statistics Division

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.
  • E.g :- 01 Quality survey on poverty in Sri Lanka - 2012 Aug.: / Sep.:
• International prices comparing programme.

Explosive Division

 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 commercal explosives.

Issuing of Explosive Permits

• When commercial level mineing activities explosive permits are issued for requirements of explosives.
  • Metal quory industry Performance and Financial Report 2014
• 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 Aurvedic productions
  • For mosquito coils production
  • For ink/paints productions
  • For boxes of matches production
  • For rubber related Productions

Issuing of Explosives Licenses

• For manufacturing fire works.
• For commercial supplying of fire works.
• For supplying of explosives.
• For monufacturing 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.

Divineguma Division

Mr. A.G.S. Ashoka Kumara Divineguma Director

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 557 gramaniladari divisions in Colombo district by 42 bank societies employed 69 samurdi managers and 868 samurdi development officers for this purpose.

Divineguma Livehood Development Programme