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The special mobile service for providing relevant certificates to people who do not have death certificates was held at the Kalpitiya Divisional Secretariat on 30.05.2023 under the chairmanship of the Minister of State for Home Affairs Mr. Ashoka Priyantha. The program was jointly launched by the Registrar General's Department and the Ministry of State for Home Affairs in conjunction with the National Program "New Village - New Country". State Minister Mr. Ashoka Priyantha instructed the Additional Secretary of the State Ministry of Home Affairs Mr. Ananda Vanninayake to immediately carry out the necessary activities to fill the vacancies of the staff officers of the Kalpitiya Divisional Secretariat. Through this mobile service which was held today, it was possible to provide solutions for the birth, death, and marriage certificate problems of nearly 300 people. For this occasion, Additional Secretary of the State Ministry of Home Affairs, Ananda Vanninayake, Puttalam District Secretary H.M. S. Herat, Registrar General Samantha Wijayasinghe, Senior Assistant Secretary Chatura Kumaratunga, Kalpitiya Divisional Secretary Chaturaka Jayasinghe and many government officials were present.

The opening of the "Norwood Divisional Secretariat" in Nuwara Eliya District took place on 29.05.2023 under the chairmanship of Mr. Jivan Thondaman.

According to the new delimitation, 30 domains have been separated from the 67 Grama Seva domains that belonged to the Ambagamuwa Koralaya Regional Secretariat and the Norwood Regional Secretariat.

On this occasion, Member of Parliament Mr. Maradapadi Rameswaran, Additional Secretaries of the State Ministry of Home Affairs, Ananda Vanninayake, K. G Dharmathilaka, Nuwara Eliya District Secretary Nandana Galabada, and a group of government officials were present.

World Fire Extinguisher Day is celebrated for the first time in Sri Lanka.

On December 02, 1998, 05 firemen who went to put out a forest fire in the state of Victoria, Australia died after being caught in the fire. To commemorate them, May 4, 1999, was named World Firefighters Day. After that, every year on the 04th of May World Firefighters Day was celebrated in Lovasin. For the first time in Sri Lanka, the World Fire Extinguishing Day celebration was held on 14.05.2023 under the chairmanship of the Minister of State for Provincial Councils and Local Government Mr. Janaka Vakkambura at Freedom Square.

A new website was also launched for the Sri Lanka Fire Brigade

On this occasion, the Secretary of the Ministries of State Administration, Home Affairs, Provincial Councils and Local Government Ranjith Ashoka, Chief Secretary of Western Province Pradeep Yasaratne, Colombo District Secretary K.G. Wijesiri, Head of the Colombo Municipal Council's Fire Brigade Unit P.D.K. A. Wilson and many government officials were present.

Minister of State Ashoka Priyantha said that plans have been made to issue digital birth certificates very soon.

Minister of State for Home Affairs Mr. Ashoka Priyantha further said that this digitization program is going to be started jointly with the Ministry of Technology and marriage and death certificates are also going to be digitized.