Method to distribute subsidies provided by the National Disaster Relief Service Center under foreign aid to local secretary and relevant beneficiaries

Rs given as a quick relief to improve the lives of the affected people. 25,000.00, Rs. 50,000.00, offers and Rs for school students. 15,000.00 giveaway relevant activities

Method of collecting data in times of disaster and ensuring accurate statistics

Procedures and issues taken to pay for full and semi damaged homes

Relief related to rehabilitation including identifying families and finding lands that need to be rehabilitation

Running security centers, planning concession for that, preparing necessary plans to close security centers and giving rental house allowance

Payment and grants to provide cooked foods, dry treats during disaster situations

Documenting of donations provided by local and foreign institutions

Discussing challenges and issues related to providing disaster relief services

According to the daily incident summary report issued by Kegalle District Secretariat Disaster Management Unit on 2026 01 05, the number of village niladari domains affected by Ditwa cyclone 11 is 556 25494 families affected. And the number of people is 90495. The death toll was 33 and the number of missing people is 38. And 27 people were injured. When it comes to housing damage, 293 total damage, 13711 half damage, 10860 families staying in own homes and relatives, 16 safe centers and 416 families living in them.

Rs for appropriate upgrades for housing damaged due to extensive disaster situation. The number of beneficiaries of Divisional Secretariat 11 who got the offer of 25000/= is 13079 Provision reserved size 326,975,000.00. The number of beneficiaries currently paid/vouchers are 12796. Accordingly, the total amount paid is Rs. 319,900,000.00. The number of beneficiaries to be paid is 283 and the remaining grants at the Provincial Secretariat level continues. 7,075,000.00. Also Rs for buying damaged kitchen and furniture. Rs. 50000/= 8388 beneficiaries and Rs. 7850 for Rs. 392,500,000.00 has been paid out and the remaining beneficiaries are also due to this money.

School students book cards purchase dresses rs. Offer of 15000/= for 3982 from 4013 students. Vouchers worth 59,730,000.00 have been offered and the same funds will be given to the remaining students in the future. 48,932 kg of rice, 20,554 kg of dal, 40,358 kg of sugar, 40,358 kg of flour, 101,136 of samantins, among the main food items distributed in addition to the remaining food items during the donation. In addition to the donations received from the National Disaster Relief Center, the donations received from Foreign Aid and International Organizations (UNISEF, WFP). Also SLAS 2009 team is 06 months - yards. Hot Plate for children aged 01 plus 23 sets of clay utensils and 08 sets of Hot Plate by Red Cross Organization. In addition to this, household appliances/kitchen appliances, cleaning washers/clothes,school appliances etc have been provided. India, Pakistan, China, Maldives, Russia, Germany, Turkey are leading among the countries that provided foreign aids from those countries have been given to the District Secretariat through the National Disaster Relief Service Center.

Discussed here about lands occupied by the government for rehabilitation due to disaster and also presented here a summary report on location inspections conducted by the National Institute of Building Research. The number of homes that have been inspected is 6736. 4703 of these homes have been inspected. Considering safe centres that are still active level, there are 412 families in 16 centres and the total number of members is 1182. In addition to these facts, it was decided here to discuss practical issues not mentioned in circular while currently giving donations and find solutions to them.

The program was organized by the same department including the District Disaster Relief Service Officer Mr. Ranjith Amarasena.

Kegalle Additional District Secretary Kusum Bandara (Government) and Mr. Dilip Nishantha (Idam) for the event, Regional Secretaries, Chief Accountant A. Udayarajan - National Disaster Relief Service Center, District Secretariat Staff Officers, Deputy IGP Drashika Kumari Miya and a group of government officials were present.