Heerassagala Sub Post Office declared open in parallel to World Postal Day and NSB Thrift Month

The new Heerassagala Sub Post Office, established by Sri Lanka Post and National Savings Bank (NSB), has been declared open recently by Minister of Media Dr. Keheliya Rambukwella, in parallel to World Postal Day, which falls on 9 October, which is important to the Department of Posts and the Month of October, which is declared as the Thrift Month by National Savings Bank. 

This computerised Sub Post Office, established at the Heerassagala Sumiththa Memorial Community Welfare Centre facilitates all services offered by the Department of Posts. Further, to improve the access to convenient saving available for the people, opportunity is granted to open NSB accounts at this Sub Post Office. Accordingly, now people in the area can open Hapan Accounts for Children, Sthree Accounts for women, ordinary savings accounts as well as Fixed Deposit Accounts at the Sub Post Office.  

Postmaster General Ranjith Ariyaratne, National Savings Bank Chairperson Keasila Jayawardena, Director Jayantha Perera, Deputy Postmaster Generals Rajitha Ranasinghe, Thusitha Hulangamuwa and Chamisha de Silva, Deputy General Managers of the Bank Ajith Peiris and Lal Karunathilaka and Assistant General Manager Malkanthi de Silva, Member of Provincial Council R. Chamikara, Heerassagala Rural Development Society President Dammika D. Sumitta and many other distinguished guests were present at the occasion.

The entire building, at which this Sub Post Office is located, is constructed with the provisions allocated to NSB Chairperson Keasila Jayawardena, when she was serving as a Member of the Central Provincial Council in 2010. 

The first day transactions were carried out by the guests at the occasion.