Account Division

	Mrs. Dilhani P. Liyanage  Chief Accountant
	Mr. R. Gunathilaka  Accountant

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

District Secretariat - Galle Financial Progress-2017

Administration & Establishment Division

	Mr. Lalinda Gamage   Additional District Secretary
	Mr. M. M. M. Sharfas    Assistant District Secretary
	Mr. K. K. V. M. Thushara   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

Mr.Saman Jayasekara   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 895 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
  
  

Engineering Division

Mrs. C. K. Weerakkody   District Engineer

 Has existed for more than 10 years in the District Secretariat Galle 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.
  
  

District Disaster Management Unit

Colonel Mr. Prasad Karunarathne   Disaster Management Officer

Responsibility

District disaster management coordinating unit has established an emergency operation unit to cover 19 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\

Disaster Preventing

Disaster Pre Preparation

Pre readyness planning done for 19 divisional divisions  by district disaster management unit and establishing rural committee in victimized gramaniladari divisions  and maintaining and awarding them disaster accessory kits done by the disaster management unit.

And awareness programmes and trial programmes were held continua sly in costal zones with tsunami danger. Specially in tsunami zone, recognizing safe places and mapping them and marking safe ways to the places were done for the safety of people, as well as for protecting people from tsunami, erecting siren horn and towers done under disaster pr alarming systems.

Recognizing disaster possibilities and preventing them and supplying instant relief for possible disasters are the activities of this unit.

Attention  Preparedness Plan

Agriculture Division

Purpose

• Department of Agriculture to meet the goals of the development of agriculture in the Galle 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 secto

Service Division

Mr. M. M. M. Sharfas    Assistant District Secretary

Census & Statistics Division

Mr. T. P. Hettiarachchi   Statistician

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

Explosive Division

Mrs. G. V. G. G. Gunathilaka   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.
  • 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 manufacturing of elephant fire crackers.
• 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.

Samruddhi Division

Mrs. H. U. Kanchana Chathurani   District Director of Samruddhi

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