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Sectional ServicesAdministration Section

  • Recruiting
  • Promotions
  • Confirmation of appointment
  • Extension of service
  • Releasing from service
  • Retirement from service
  • Overseas scholarships
  • Disciplinary actions in Ministry, and departments and institutions coming under it.
  • Appearing for court cases
  • Human resource development activities
  • Establishment activities of all institutions coming under the Ministry
  • Coordination of Establishment and administrative activities

Planning Section

  • Proving guidance to prepare development plans of departments, boards and commissions under the Ministry in accordance with guidelines from Finance Commission and funding organizations, approving them and giving permission to amend them while being implemented
  • Monitoring, managing and post-evaluation of development plans implemented by various departments and institutions.
  • Monitoring progress when implementing development plans.
  • Preparing to hand over projects properly completed under annual development plans to the public.
  • Getting support from local and foreign NGOs for the development of relevant fields of the Central Province.
  • Implementing productivity programme of the Ministry and assisting to implement and supervising such programmes in departments and institutions coming under the Ministry.
  • Implementing, monitoring and post-evaluation of 'Nanoda' programme.
  • Operation, supervision and post-evaluation of Vocational Training Centres under Department of Education.
  • Implementing, conducting, monitoring and post-evaluation of Community Based Water Project.
  • Establishment, implementation, operation, supervision and post-evaluation of Early Childhood Development Unit.

Accounts Section

  • Proper distribution of funds allocated for the Ministry from annual budget to departments, boards and other institutions
  • Activities related to Capital & recurrent expenditure
  • Payments
  • Procurement
  • Preparing reports and presenting facts pertaining to Accounts Committee
  • Replying to audit reports
  • Preparation of reports
  • Storage

Educational ServicesEducation Section

Performing duties related to Teacher Service, Principal Service, Education Administration Service and non-academic staff of schools.

Sri Lanka Teacher Service

  • Recruiting graduates and diploma holders to Sri Lanka Teacher Service
  • Implementing and monitoring Teacher Transfer Policy
  • Monitor and guide processes at zonal level in relation to promotions
  • Teacher transfers to national and inter-provincial schools
  • Provide graduate appointments for teachers who graduated while in service
  • Provide appointments for teachers who were trained while in service
  • Issuing permanent appointment for apprentice teachers
  • Teachers' study leave, subject leave, reinstatement in service and disciplinary actions

Sri Lanka Principal Service and Sri Lanka Education Administration Service

  • Appointing to positions of SLPS/SLEAS
  • Extension of services, confirmation of appointments, retirements and directing to line ministry with recommendation
  • Disciplinary actions

Non-academic Staff of Central Provincial Schools

  • Recruitment to non-academic staff of schools
  • Duties pertaining to transfers, confirmation of appointments, promotions and efficiency bar examinations.
  • Retirements.
  • Disciplinary affairs

Internal Audit

Ensuring transparency in administration through constant inspection to emphasise that all departments and institutions coming under the ministry function in accordance with the financial and administrative laws and regulations.
Preventing errors and frauds in internal administrative systems in departments, zonal education offices and schools coming under the Ministry. Maintaining continuous research and independent evaluation to ensure the internal inspection used to expose such errors and frauds is methodical and sufficient.

Tasks

  • Auditing all departments and institutions coming under the Chief Ministry.
  • Conducting sudden inspections.
  • Conducting special investigations.
  • Issuing disclaimer certificates for retiring officers.
  • Reporting of any disciplinary actions or audit queries against retiring staff officers.

VisitEarly Childhood Development Unit

Vision

To create a child ready for school education with pre knowledge and skills.

Mission

To ensure the rights of children in early childhood, to strengthen them mentally and physically, and to create methodologies and charters to regulate and standardize the Early Childhood Centers, and to implement and regulate them.
The main objectives of this unit are;

  1. Promoting early childhood education in the province.
  2. Registration, management and monitoring of Early Childhood Development Centers.
  3. Creating favorable environment for the physical, mental and overall development of children in the early childhood stage.
  4. Ensuring rights of children in the early childhood stage and providing proper protection for them.
  5. Taking other steps that might be necessary for early childhood development.

 

Departmental & Institutional Services

Our Services

PowerProvincial Department of Education

Vision

An intelligent and skilled future generation

Mission

To empower Medarata school system to provide students equal and fair opportunity for high quality education

Duties

  1. Providing learning opportunities for students in compulsory learning age.
  2. Providing classrooms suitable for a successful learning process.
  3. Development of physical and mental wellbeing of students.
  4. Improvement of students through welfare and counseling.
  5. Teacher guidance for an effective teaching learning process.
  6. Providing sufficient quality input in schools to evoke the students to be more creative with activities from primary to advanced level.
  7. Developing students' technical and linguistic skills through the education process.
  8. Administration and regulation of activities for effective and productive application of human and physical resources in provincial education process.

Education zones and Schools of Central Province

District Zones National Schools Provincial Schools
Kandy 06 35 617
Matale 04 12 305
Nuwara Eliya 05 07 543
Central Province total 15 54 1465


Contact Details

Phone: +94 812 225134
Phone: +94 812 225134
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Phone: https://cpedu.lk

 

Department of Local Government

Vision

Best Local Government System of the Island from Medarata that has excelled with good governance

Mission

Establish a successful system of local government in the province, through assisting in facilitating and guiding the local authorities to enable them to perform the duties and functions entrusted to them for the welfare of the people in an efficient and productive manner.

Local Government Institutions in the Central Province

District Pradeshiya Sabha Urban Councils Municipal Councils
Kandy 17 04 01
Matale 11 0 02
Nuwaraeliya 09 02 01
Central Province total 37 06 04

Duties

  1. Ensuring that all local authorities within the province exercise their powers and perform their duties properly with a clear understanding of their aims and objectives.
  2. Devolve the powers and responsibilities relevant to Local Government within the Central Province that have been vested upon Provincial Councils by the 13th amendment to the Constitution.
  3. Execute the powers entrusted to the Department by various acts, ordinances, rules, regulations and circular instructions related to local government.
  4. Ensuring that the local government institutions do not exceed their limits when performing their duties.
  5. Being responsible that the local authorities adhere to the policy decisions taken by the Central Government and the Provincial Council when carrying out their duties.
  6. Providing necessary instructions and proper guidance to local authorities.
  7. Ensuring financial aid, specially the imbursement of salaries, is made available).
  8. Efficient execution of departmental duties pertaining to personnel management in local government institutions.
  9. Ensuring development of establishments and manpower to maintain a high level of performance in local government institutions.
  10. Conducting research on local government and providing training and education.

Contact Details

Phone: +94 812 202263
Phone: +94 812 202261
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Phone: www.lgd.cp.gov.lk

 

Department of Land

Vision

“Satisfied society from Medarata through settled state lands"

Mission

Hold the ownership of state owned lands and affiliated resources in the Central Province while maintaining proper management that stabilizes the economical, social and environmental factors in applying them in various deployments.

The Department of Land is another department which comes under the purview of the Chief Ministry. The Department of Land hold sway over all state land in the Central Province and is responsible for the proper management of such land in terms of economical, social and environmental factors that have a direct impact on the effective utilization of state owned land. The specific activities the department undertakes can be clustered under five working objectives.

Duties

 

  1. Planning and Implementation of human-settlement schemes under the Land Development ordinance and issuing of grants for the distributed lands
  2. Granting approval of the Provincial Council to be abided by the state laws when alienating land for people, places of worship, general purposes etc.
    • Granting permission for Land Kachcheri and approving the final list under Land Development Ordinance
    • Granting permission for Land Kachcheri, releasing of land for residential, agricultural, industrial or commercial or state or local government institutes, granting lands under long-term lease and granting approval of the Provincial Council for transferring the annual license under State Land Ordinance.
    • Implementing procedures related to releasing of lands, leasing for State Departments, Boards and Institutes of Local Government and Transfer of lands.
  3. Granting permission to hold Land Kachcheri, to alienate or transfer of lands under Land Grants (Special Provisions) Act.
  4. Providing guidance and instructions for Divisional Secretaries on land administration for lands belonging to the Provincial Council that do not come under inter-provincial land development projects.Planning and Implementation of human-settlement schemes under the Land Development ordinance and issuing of grants for the distributed lands.

Contact Details

Phone: +94 812 424462
Phone: +94 812 424463
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Phone: www.landdept.cp.gov.lk

 

Department of Cultural Affairs

Vision

A future generation that preserves artistic, cultural and historical heritage of Medarata

Mission

“Nourish and protect, developed places of worship and ancient monuments of historical and social value which foster the intellectual enhancement of mankind and develop creative literature and the writing of cultural books within the Central Province, a special region full of a cultural heritage where a variety of arts have been handed down from ancient times"

Duties

  1. Conservation of tangible heritage.
  2. Conservation of non-tangible heritage.
  3. Welfare of all sorts of artists.
  4. Enhancing of entertainment skills.
  5. Enhancing creativity in arts and literature.
  6. Work towards a society that respects ethics

Contact Details

Phone: +94 813 238476
Phone: +94 812 238476
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Phone: www.culture.cp.gov.lk

 

Department of Trade, Commerce and Tourism

Vision

"A mid country replete with contented tourists and a business community."

Mission

Invested, facilitated and provided requirements in most accurate and fastest growing economic sectors in fair, equal and productive manner. Enhanced understanding of the importance of protecting and sharing our natural, cultural and ancient heritage so they may be preserved and enjoyed for future generation. Foreign and local tourist delighted with memorable experiences. Well trained human resources and well facilitated internationally appreciated accommodations and infrastructure facilities. The business community and the general public of mid country have been economically strengthened with the collaboration of private sector to shoulder the grown up national economy.

Duties

  1. Implementing Business Registration Ordinance and imparting knowledge on the same to Divisional Secretariat offices.
  2. Bringing together and empowering vendors throughout the Central Province by Divisional Secretariat level according to their financial objectives.
  3. Development of human resources.
  4. Developing infrastructure for the promotion of tourism.
  5. Development of designs related to trade, commerce and tourism fields.
  6. Providing financial aid and guidance for institutions engaged in trade, commerce and tourism industries.
  7. Promoting investment opportunities.
  8. Enhancing imparting of information.

Contact Details

Phone: +94 812 3887118
Phone: +94 812 3887118
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Phone: www.tourism.cp.gov.lk

 

Department of Engineering Services

Vision

"Engineering strength for the development of Medarata"

Mission

Providing latest consultancy and technical services for the development of Medarata through architectural and engineering designs and constructions whilst preserving its beauty and pride.

Duties

  1. Architectural designs, structural engineering designs, supervision and financial management.
  2. Providing vocational training for engineers and students following courses related to engineering.
  3. Providing laboratory facilities to test materials and thereby maintain standards of constructions in the Province.
  4. Providing consultancy services for building constructions on the request of Central Government.

Contact Details

Phone: +94 812 228111
Phone: +94 812 200412
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Phone: www.cpesd.cp.gov.lk

 

Library Services Board

Vision

"Creating a learning culture in the Central Province"

Mission

Human resources development essential for efficient and effective performance through maximum opportunities to handle data and information freely and continuously.

Duties

  1. Imparting knowledge on Library Management in order for the readers to obtain maximum use of the library.
  2. Implementation of library collaboration programs for exchange of knowledge.
  3. Implementing programmes to obtain and conserve books, manuscripts, and library books etc. that reflect the culture of the area. Promoting the library as an institution active in social betterment through discussions, conferences, quiz programmes, speech contests and lectures of learned scholars. Establishing library as an information centre for community services.

Contact Details

Phone: +94 812 384032
Phone: +94 812 386169

 

Department of Sports

Vision

"Healthy, Active, Excellent & Disciplined Human Resource."

Mission

Providing sports facilities in order to improve mental and physical health of every ethnic group, motivating them and leading spots men and women to the national and international level improving their skills by providing necessary technology and facilities.

Objectives

  1. Improving and encouraging sports within Central Province.
  2. Directing to Train sportsmen for the national and international level sports competitions.
  3. Identifying sportsmen and sportswomen along with special skills and providing necessary facilities to develop their skills.

Duties

  • Registration of Sports Societies.
  • Organizing inter Club Sports Competitions.
  • Organizing District Competitions.
  • Organizing Provincial Competitions.
  • Conducting District Training Camps.
  • Conducting Provincial Training Camps.
  • Presenting sportsmen and sportswomen for the National Sports Festival.
  • Organizing Reward Ceremony for sportsmen.
  • Maintaining Divisional And District Training Pools.
  • Conducting Sports Programs for all.
  • Maintaining Secondary Pools.

Contact Details

  Digana Sports Complex, Digana, Rajawalla
Phone: +94 812 052550
Phone: +94 812 052550
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