Over 1,700 Deyata Kirula mobile services completed
Parallel to the Deyata Kirula 2014 National Development Program,
1,702 Deyata Kirula mobile services held in the Wayamba Province -
Kurunegala and Puttalam districts - were completed recently. The
problems of 60 percent of the people out of 502,937 in the two districts
were attended to then and there. The Village-to-Village, House-to-House
Deyata Kirula Mobile Services commenced on July 1 under Economic
Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa's direction in accordance with a
concept of President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Arrangements were made to
conduct 2,058 services in 2,158 Grama Niladhari areas of 46 Secretarial
Divisions in the Kurunegala and Puttalam districts and only a balance of
356 remain to be completed. The balance number of people will have their
problems attended to before December 31, when Deyata Kirula 2014 Mobile
Services end.
According to the Kurunegala and Puttalam Divisional Secretaries,
massive crowds had attended the mobile service units in the Wayamba
Province.
The Mobile Service units looked into the problems of 502,937 people
in the Kurunegala and Puttalam districts such as drinking water,
electricity, issuing of National Identity Cards, birth certificates,
senior identity cards, permits, needs for wheel chairs and spectacles
and the availability of indigenous and Western medical facilities.
According to Minister Rajapaksa, this brings the State administrative
machinery to the village. To brief the people's representatives and
State representatives at provincial level and empower them for
organising mobile services under the Minister, 30 meetings were held at
Kurunegala and 16 at Puttalam.
The Economic Development Ministry is coordinating village meetings
and mobile relief services. Work on 108 selected community projects
commenced in 18 electorates of the Wayamba Province on September 18.
These include a number of development programs including carpeting and
concreting of roads, constructing weekly fairs, restoring tanks and the
extending power supply, all of which will be completed before February
3, 2014.
- news.lk
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