Account Division

	Mrs L.A.B.L Gunasena Chief Accountant
	Mrs.A.S.D.M.S.Sanjeewani Accountant

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

Administration & Establishment Division

	Mr. J.W.S.Kithsiri Additional District Secretary I
	Mr. P.A.A.S.Weeraskara Additional District Secretary II
	Mrs. M.M. Nilanthi Kumari Assistant District Secretary
	Mrs. W.S.W Rodrigo 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
• Training activities for officers
• Issuing holiday railway warrants
• Issuing loan facilities for officers
  • Property loans
  • Distress loans

In addition to establishment duties following duties also carriedout by the branch

Planning Division

Mrs. Samantha Senanayaka Director(Planning)

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
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• Development Work Programme - Project Progress Summary
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Engineering Division

Mrs. J.A.D.V.T.Jayasuriya District Engineer

The Strengths of the Division

Social Responsibilities

• Maintaining the infrastructures and buildings of District Secretariat and all the buildings at
• Constructing Quarters attached with District Secretariat and Divisional Secretariats.
• Constructing new buildings and maintaining of the linear ministries and other Public relation Institutions.
• Registering Contractors for District Secretariat and attached institutions.
• Holding District Cost Pricing Committee and prepare the price list.
• Providing engineering consultations for the attached institutions of District Secretariat.

Internal Audit Unit

Mrs G.V.A Sajeewani Chief Internal Auditor

Responsibility

To improve the operational processes of the District Secretariat and its affiliated Divisional Secretariats and to enhance its performance, to what extent the financial and administrative procedures introduced by the management are effective, are they implemented as expected and to identify and report the weaknesses in the existing control system to the management and to achieve the following objectives:

• Ensuring compliance with laws, regulations, policies and procedures
• Taking steps to detect and prevent wrongdoings, fraud and corruption
• Insisting on and improving internal control systems.
• Safeguarding assets by ensuring acquisition of assets, proper record keeping, physical existence and compliance with policies
• Maintaining proper financial management / financial discipline.
• Ensuring a complete accounting system.
• Providing independent, impartial, and objective assurance on the operational activities of the institution.

Activities

• To examine how the internal audit and control systems implemented to prevent errors and fraud are operating as planned.
•  To examine whether the instructions given in the Institutions Code, Financial Regulations, Ordinances and various circulars are being followed.
•  To ensure the proper use of cash, property and other assets in operational activities and the reliability and integrity of information.
•  To examine whether the reliability of accounts and other records and the preparation of financial statements are in accordance with the accounting policies used.
• To evaluate the quantitative and qualitative performance of staff in fulfilling their responsibilities.
•  To conduct special audits when necessary.
•  To review performance and progress at the Audit and Management Committee meeting held quarterly.
•  Follow-up on matters referred to the Parliamentary Committee on Public Accounts regarding the District Secretariat.

District Disaster Management Unit

Mr. A.M.Ajith Nishantha Deputy Director (Disaster Management Center)

Responsibility

District disaster management coordinating unit has established an emergency operation unit to cover 13 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, As an example :- Cleaning canals to minimize floods
  (Heen ela - Colombo ,Malpura ela - Kolonnawa, Serpantine -Thimbirigasyaya)
• For minimizing earth slips (Melfert project)

Disaster Preventing

Gampaha district disaster management unit is doing special activity to save people by preventing disasters.
As an example:- people in coastal area were evacuated  acting quickly when tsunami alarm on April 2012

Disaster Pre Preparation

Pre readyness planning done for 13 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

	Mrs. S.D.K.Priyadarshani Director (Agriculture)
	Mr. Nawarathna Bandara Deputy Director (Fertilizer)
	Mr. M Madhura Assistant Director - Fertilizer
	Mr. Rohan Induka Assistant Director - Fertilizer

Objectives

• Assist in the formulation of policies in food and allied agricultural crops
• Established food and nutrition security
• Stable prices for agricultural products
• Monitoring and Evaluation ofimplementing projects
• Increase production in selected crops
• Efficient and effective implementation of accelerated food production programme
• Customer friendly and result oriented administrative system

Development Projects-2018

1. The gardens project for the Schools under the Sustainable School Program

This program was implemented with the aim of promoting the consumption of under-utilized fruits among school children under the Environmental Protection Program in 196 selected schools in the Gampaha District. This program was carried out directly with the intervention of Provincial Education Department, Zonal and Divisional Education Offices. Under this program, fruit plants and compost fertilizer were distributed and the responsibility for setting up and planting trees in the school premises was assigned to school children and the thematic guide to the theme school teacher. Officers connected with the field of agriculture are provided with regular supervision and instructions and three quarterly progress reports are sent to the Presidential Secretariat.

2. Increase food production by making senior citizens contribute to food production

Through productive utilization of the retirement age of elderly people, they improve their physical and emotional wellbeing by making use of their knowledge and skills, delivering an effective service to the country, increasing food production and increasing national food production. This is expected to be taken. Senior citizens are selected through selected Divisional Secretariat Divisions. Home gardening, incentive farming, crop farms are provided to the farmers in order to provide them with the necessary seeds and planting materials, agricultural implements and technical knowledge.

2.Urban and Semi-urban Home Development Project

The objective of this project is to utilize the space in the urban and semi urban housing quarters for the people to use the space. Those who live in a limited space in the Gampaha District, where the rapidly urbanization is being graduated, will be used by the householders to consume food poisoning, Provide socio-economic development of units and pay through landscaping To improve the environment and ultimately increase food production, thereby increasing food production in the entire country. Selected urban residents will be provided with seed and planting material, agricultural implements and technical know-how in selected Divisional Secretary Divisions.

National Food Production Programme

Fruit Enterprise Cluster entrepreneurship model project

This project will produce 800 durian plants for the selected beneficiaries of commercial fruit production limited to one area and the marketing strategy applicable to each area. This will increase the productivity of the fruit in the Gampaha District, provide economic benefits to the farmers and make the Gampaha District self-sufficient in fruits.

Sports Division

	Mr. Chandana Amarasinghe District Sports Officer
	Mr. Kingsle District Sports Trainer

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

Details of allocations as follows,

• Kreeda Shakthi Programme
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Internal Affaires Unit

Mrs. J.W.S.Kithsiri Additional District Secretary

Media Unit

Mr. M.D.Priyani Media Officer

Government Department of Information established media units in every district 12 years ago. According to the programme an media unit established in Gampaha district secretariat and named it as Gampaha 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 Gampaha 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  Gampaha 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 Gampaha district strategic development plan.
• Covering and propagating by media about tournaments organized by Gampaha district public service sports association.
• Collecting reports published in press media.
• Coordinating development activities of various branches of Gampaha district secretariat  and issuing relevant reports to media.

Measurements Standard Unit

Mr. Upul Bambarenda Officer Incharge (Standered Measurment Unit)

Responsibilities

• Testing and stamping of weighers and measuring accessories of traders annually by an inspector.
  • Organizing testing and stamping centers to test and stamp measuring accessories of traders in every divisional secretariat with the guidance of district secretary.
  • Fuel issuing accessories of filling stations testing and stamping annually.
  • Accessories of emission testing of emission testing centers testing and stamping.
  • Testing and stamping of measuring accessories of factories testing and stamping annually.
• Raiding and taking legal actions against traders who violate legal allocations of the 1995 No.35 Measuring units and Standard services Act. (clauses 37, 42, 38, 46, 51, (6).
• Taking legal actions against traders violate above legal allocations.
  • No. of stamped units - 34954
  • Total revenue - Rs.9130207.50
  • Finished court actions -76
  • Penalties - Rs.148500.00

The Department was estabilished under the provisions of the Measurement Units Standards And Services Act No.35 of 1995. The Department aims to establish, maintain, and disseminate National Standards of Measurement in Sri Lanka and the traceability of Measurements. It also provides the Legal Metrological framework to trade, Industry, science, health, security and environmental protection.

Census & Statistics Division

Mr. W.H.D.C.P Wijesuriya Senior Statician

Vision

"To be the leader in the region in producing timely statistical information to achieve th country’s development goals"

Mission

"Making contribution to the socio economic development of the country by providing accurate

timely statistics, more effectively by means of new technology, and utilising the service

of dedicatied staff under a strategic leadership to become a prosperous nation in the

globalized environment."

Responsibilities

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

Counting Activities

• Census of Population and housing
• Census of Agricultural
• Census of Industry
• Economic Census
• Census of Public and Semi government sector employment

Survey Activities

• Paddy Harvest Survey
• Sri Lanka LabourForce Survey
• Household Income and Expenditure Survey
• Annual Industrial Survey
• Quarterly Industrial Productions Survey
• Annual Construction Industries Survey
• Coconut Productions Cost Survey
• Demographic & Health Survey
• Child Activity Survey

General Data Collection Activities

• Paddy statistics
• Highland crops statistics
• Animal statistics
• Statistics of animal killed for meat
• Buildings statistics
• Local government bodies statistics
• Urban retail prices collecting
• Producer’s 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 :- International prices comparing program, Child activity survey, Demographicand health survey
    

Explosive Division

Mr. D.E.Dewagama Asstant 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.

Performance of the Explosives Branch as Follows in 2025

Total Revenue Earned From Issuing Permits, Licenses and Registrations in 2025

Samurdhi Division

Mrs J.A.D.S Jayasinghe Samurdhi 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 1177 gramaniladari divisions in Gampaha district by 86 banks employed 130 samurdi managers and 1618 samurdi development officers for this purpose.

Divineguma Livehood Development Programme