According to the Home Affairs Cycle of the Provincial Council and Local Government Ministry Secretary, the District Planning Committee has been established today (2026 01 13) as a regular sub-committee of the District Coordination Committee, representing the Political Authority, Kegalle District who participated. Coordination Committee Co-Chairman and Environment Minister Dr. Dhammika Pattabandhe and Kegalle District Secretary/Director H. M. J. M. At the auditorium of Kegalle District Secretariat under the leadership of Mr. Herath.

 The purpose is to establish this regular subcommittee

🔶 Preparing and implementing scientific and technical plans to utilize resources in the district with maximum potential and efficiency and according to national policy
🔶 Coordinating the deployment of state, non-government, private sectors investments operated in the district according to priorities in accordance with national policy. 🔶 Operations and monitoring on annual development investments done in the district (Monitoring and Evaluation) process. Doing 🔶to meet the facts of the need to formally analyze the outcome of state investment for the district and the outcome.
Also when considering the composition of this committee the committee is the co-chairman of the district coordination committee and the minister representing the district. Serves as District Secretary and Committee Secretary/Caller (Director of Production). Participation officers are District Price Committee officers, District Food Committee officers and District State Corporation heads or their representatives. As the role of this committee
🔶 operations role
🔶 coordination role
🔶 The role of the advocacy
🔶 The role after supervision
🔶 Progress review
🔶 Progress is the role of reporting.
Considering the roles here, according to the planning role, the annual Integrated Development Plan should be set up and get approval from the District Coordination Committee, according to all financial sources related to the district (including foreign aid projects) Accordingly
🔺Prioritizing the needs of the district in connection with national policy
🔺The plan to distribute financial resources by assessing the distribution of natural and physical resources is done here. The second role is the operation role. The district coordination committee is being transferred to the relevant sectors for implementing the approved proposals. The Integrated District Development Plan is the role of coordinating the techniques needed for the community to know. The role of four is a counseling role and providing the advisory support required to implement project programs approved by the District Coordination Committee. Under the role of supervision and post-inquiry
🔺Conducting post investigation to inquire whether development proposals/plans/programs are implemented within the relevant time frame
🔺 Here is the role to investigate whether the goals held within the relevant development work/design phase have been achieved. Also the role of progress management and progress reporting is to be in case of progress and projects, programs, implementation issues during the relevant year/quarter
🔺 To the Presidential Secretariat
🔺 To the Ministry of Government Administration
🔺 To the Ministry of Finance
🔺 To the District Coordination Committee
🔺 Report to other relevant institutions.
The meeting held today extended discussion about the establishment of the District Planning Committee as a regular sub-committee of the District Coordination Committee and also discussed the plans and proposals related to the budget proposals for 2026 year. There focus is on education sector, health sector, agriculture sector, infrastructure (water, electricity, roads, communication, housing), industry sector, environment, tourism sector and other sector.
Following this, widespread discussions were discussed here in practical implementation of certain projects done in 2025 in various local secretariat divisions. Also here was the discussion on how to implement future projects according to the five year representation plan, solving those questions in 2026 initiated.
Chief Secretary E for the event. K. A. Sunitha; Chief Secretariat; Sabaragamuwa Provincial Council - Secretary; S. M. D. C. Samarasekara; Ministry of Land, Provincial Irrrigation, Agriculture, Animal Production and Animal Health Fisheries; Sabaragamuwa Provincial Council - Kegalla District MP representing Political Authority - Kegalla Municipal Council President and Provincial Council President - Additional District Secretary P. A. Kusum Bandara (Government) and Dilip Nishantha (Idam) Depala - Divisional Secretaries - Deputy Director; M. P. Aye. Senarathna; (Methods compilation - District Secretariat) - Deputy Director; E. M. G. Ekanayake; (Programmation) - Deputy Director; Deshapriya Bandara; (District Disaster Management Unit - Kegalle) - All officers of the District Waste Management Unit including all the staff officers of the District Secretariat were present.