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‘2013, year of excellent public service’ President’s Secy explains way to meet challenge
View(s):Kicking off recently a project that can make State land management unimaginably easy, Presidential Secretary Lalith Weeratunga showed the way to make 2013 the excellent public service year.
The State Land Information Management System (e-SLIMS) is a project initiated by the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA). With this launch e-SLIMS is immediately implemented in 10 Divisional Secretariats in the Western Province, namely, Kaduwela, Hanwella Sitawaka, Homagama, Minuwangoda, Mahara, Meerigama, Negombo, Walallawita, Bulathsinhala and Ingiriya. The project is tipped to become island-wide in due course.
Beginning his address as Chief Guest at the inauguration of the State Land Information Management System (e-SLIMS) with due recognition of the achievements in past years the Presidential Secretary said: “It is not that in the past years we have not made great improvements in public service. Indeed we have made great strides in making public service unimaginably comfortable both for the public and the Government staff. Obtaining of Birth, Marriage and Death certificates which took three months in the past could be obtained in five to 10 minutes now.
Vehicle Revenue Licence could be received in the comfort of our home without the hassle of visiting Government offices. People experience this vast difference in ease and efficiency as compared with the past in many areas, be it pension, online visa in the case of foreigners wanting to visit Sri Lanka, crop price information for farmers, just to mention a few”.
Urging the audience assembled at SLIDA for this launch that makes 10 Divisional Secretariats in the Western Province able to implement e-SLIMS with immediate effect, the Presidential Secretary was prophetic and said: “If all 336 Divisional Secretariats in all the 25 Districts do a genuine job, 90 per cent of the problems that the country faces will be solved.
Let every public servant offer his contribution to present to the President as perfect a machinery in public service as possible. This will be a great support for His Excellency in his endeavour to lead the country further towards the highest ideals locally and internationally”.
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