347 Badulla mobile services completed in two months

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Arrangements have been to complete within three months 567 mobile services launched in the Badulla district under the Village-to-Village, House-to-House National Program to solve problems of the rural population. Of this number 347 have already been completed. Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa is directing the program on President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s advice to solve the problems of nearly 811,758 people living in 15 Secretarial Divisions of nine electorates in the Badulla District.

132,644 villagers, 546 people’s representatives, representatives of 2,973 community organisations, 54 NGOs, 317 private entrepreneurs and 25,953 officials of 35 government ministries attended the 347 mobile service held until 4 August. Following the success of the Mobile Services held in the Kegalle, Kurunegala and Puttalam Districts, they have been extended to the Badulla and Monaragala Districts in the Uva Province, the Galle, Matara and Hambantota in the Southern Province and to the Ratnapura District. In the Badulla district most of the problems relating to issuing of birth, marriage and death certificates, National Identity Cards, passports, requests for spectacles, walking aids, wheel chairs, lands, housing, health, agriculture, fisheries and animal husbandry were solved by the mobile services last week, according to Badulla District Secretary Rohana Dissanayake. The highest public participation was noted in programs on health clinics, maternal and child nutrition, food preparation, beauty culture, prevention of drug addiction, shramadana and religion and the environment.