Finance & Account Division

	K.Yogendran Chief Accountant
	Mr.Selvakumar Accountant

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

Administration & Establishment Division

	Mr.M.Piratheep Additional District Secretary
	Mr.B.P.Dilishan Pius  Assistant District Secretary
	Mrs.M.T.V.P.Reval 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 5 divisional secretaries
• Buddhist and cultural affairs
• 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.H.Haleemdeen Planning Director
	Mr.J.Rohan Croos Deputy Director of Planning
	Mr.S.J.V.Soisa Assistant Director of 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 153 G.N. Divisions in the 5 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

Eng.K.Ganeshamoorthy Chief Engineer (Acting)

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

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

Mr.K.Thileepan Assistant Director

Responsibility

District disaster management coordinating unit has established an emergency operation unit to cover 5 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
  
  
• For minimizing earth slips (Melfert project)

Disaster Pre Preparation

Pre readyness planning done for 5 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.

Agriculture Division

Mrs. A. Sakeelabanu District Agriculture Director

Sports Division

Census & Statistics Division

Mr.S.B.Mathuranayagam Statician

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 - 2024 Aug.: / Sep.:
• International prices comparing programme.

Samurdhi Division

Mr.C.Dilaxan Divineguma Director (Acting)

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.

Divineguma Livehood Development Programme