Deyata Kirula completes 2,304 mobile services

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Parallel to the Deyata Kirula 2014 National Development Program 2,304 Deyata Kirula mobile services were held at Grama Seva level in the Kegalle, Kurunegala and Puttalam Districts during the past three months. Solutions were found then and there for 149,664 problems affecting the people in the three districts. The Village-to-Village, House-to-House Deyata Kirula Mobile Services commenced on 1 July under Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa’s direction in accordance with a concept of President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Arrangements were made to conduct 2,631 services in 2,731 Grama Seva areas in the Kurunegala and Puttalam Districts and today only a balance of 327 remain to be completed. A total of 598,503 were served by the mobile service units. Minister Rajapaksa announced this when he addressed Members of the Deyata Kirula 2014 National Development Program organising Committee at the Ministry auditorium yesterday. Senior Ministers Athauda Seneviratne, Milroy Fernando, S.B. Navinna and Information and Technology Minister Ranjit Siyambalapitiya, Wayamba Chief Minister Dayasiri Jayasekera, Sabaragamuwa Chief Minister Maheepala Herath, Government Agents of the three Districts, Ministry Secretaries and other senior officials were among those who attended the meetings.

Calling the program a means of taking the State Administrative machinery to the village, Minister Rajapaksa said that some problems which could not be solved by the Mobile Service Units will be attended to at electoral and national levels soon. The areas the Mobile Service Units covered related to drinking water, electricity, issuing of National identity cards, birth certificates, elders identity cards, various permits, needs for wheel chairs and spectacles and the availability of indigenous and Western medical facilities. 21% of these were solved then and there. Work on 108 projects out of a large number selected in the three districts have commenced as an initial step after identifying the urgent requirements of the community. These include the carpeting and concreting of roads, construction of weekly fairs, repairing tanks and reservoirs and extending power supply lines. Already 517 Deyata Kirula mobile services have been performed in the Kegalle District, 1,243 in the Kurunegala District and 544 in the Puttalam District.