Deputy Minister of that Ministry Dr. Namal Sudarshana attended a discussion with officers belonging to Ministry of Women and Child Affairs of Kegalle District 2026. 02 . The Chairman of Kegalla District Coordination Committee who was present representing the political authority on 20th; Environment Minister; Dr. Dhammika Patabandhe, Kegalla District Parliamentary Ministers; Lawyer; Sagarika Gangani Athuda Kegalla District Secretary/Disapati H. M. J. M. At Kegalla District Secretariat Auditorium under the leadership of Mr. Herath and Kegalla Additional District Secretary Kusum Bandara (Ruling).

Reviewing the progress of Child and Women Unit officers belonging to all the Provincial Secretariats in the district and the questions and concerns that those officers are practically on duty. After the district secretary's acceptance and objective explanation speech, the progress of the Children and Women's Unit was first investigated. Here, the foreign development officers, child rights promotion officers, district child security officers, advisory officers, early child development officers made progress here and it was also special to express the pleasure of the Honorable Minister with the work done by those units.

Issues identified here are the absence of a center for short term detention of victim women, not implementing programs from the Ministry to strengthen women's unions forces, lack of legal power for forest development officers during 1938 complaint investigation and existing threats to security, by deploying money by women's forces Some of the programs suggested to implement were long discussed over lack of enough funding to issue cyclical loans, and as ongoing issues for children and women units in general; officer vacancies offices, lack of equipment, computers, laptops, projectors, phone facilities are not sufficient Being, lack of LGN facilities, lack of child and women development units being installed separately, not sufficient travel expenses for field duties, not sufficient documents, not formal duty list, getting training opportunities for officers and vacancies for child care officers; Ruwanwella; Dehiowit; Yatiyanthota; The Divisional Secretariat going to Dharaniyagala also came to attention here.
In addition to the issues arising during intervention, shortage of officers in the district (Daraniyagala; Ruwanwella; Yatiyanthota; Dehiovit; Warakapola), difficulties of contacting officers in the education sector for school programs, difficulties of immediate intervention for the welfare of children in complaint investigations, false complaints reports, community related Difficulties of getting done, not sufficient funds provided for certain programs, travel difficulties, delays from certain places in work, not sufficient travel expenses were the key among the issues discussed.
Kegalle District Parliamentarian MP; Lawyer; Sagarika Gangani Athuda commenting on this discussion: "Women should be able to empower women to achieve great economic strength when there are three out of four women and children in the country. Even though women's economic contribution is 52% of the population, the active contribution is only 35%. To move forward as a country, one cannot leave the active contribution of a woman. Therefore our ministry has put overloaded to set up programs to liberate women from traditional frame and tactically engage women into the national economy. We currently have a huge number of programs planned for us for majority of the jobs. These programs will be held in Kegalle district
A full call was made today following the meeting of our District Committee including the District Secretary, Additional District Secretary, Officers related to the subject of Women Affairs. Studied the field throughout the last period and discussed with district secretaries and elders. "So today was a long discussion about last year's progress and what future plans for 2026"
Further commented here, the MP said that some of the pre-school children are currently seen with autism so they are expecting to hold 02 school teachers awareness programs in Kegalle district before identifying them with autism, and at market level in connection with Women's Day Standardized Women Products Entrepreneurs selected 65 from all local divisions from 05 regional secretariat and selected district entrepreneurs among them and created a standardized marketing policy for their products in Kegalle town and set up a technique to sell those women products in that market. Doing and expecting to buy the technical equipment needed for the project combining the aims of enjoyment of children and activity in the children's society, promoting children's society and prevention of drug drug, and expect to distribute them to all regional secretariat divisions in the same program, related to the city Plans to build a standard daycare center are being made, focused on reorganizing active level women's unions as well as inactive level unions, and the women's district program is expecting to celebrate in Kegalle town with an entrepreneurship program.
The Hon'ble Deputy Minister who responded to the kindness proposed by Mrs. Sagarika Gangani Athuuda during this discussion session had discussed the lack of good market for women products as the ministry, and the Batik industry, Colombo for women's creations using local materials. If these products are kept on sale in a supermarket in the city, it will have more value and profit, several have been done for discussion now to create a better market for it with a Brand Name, and the Ministry is discussing level to bring all women products across the country to that market, and those products The idea of networking at the district level and regional level, reorganizing by adding new people to the women's work organization and giving opportunity to more people in women's work organization, community energy programs are related to this than traditional techniques. He also said that it is expected to build and reorganize women's work organizations very soon.
He also said that 109 officers are scheduled to be recruited for the ongoing vacancies at the National Child Guard Authority, and the Ministry of Women and Children's Affairs by the budget in 2026. Mee. 440 has been allocated, under the "Artha" project, Rs.5000/= will be charged for children in every child's home and Rs.3000/= from that amount to Rs.3000/= to the child's home. 2000/= money to the child and children studying in widows and female home basic families under the "Finance" project so that they can provide money to the ministry of relevant proposals on such children, if they own land for 18 years old leaving a child home He knew more that the details about them would be directed to the ministry as they could allocate money to buy a land if not to give.
The program was organized by the Vanita Development Officer of the District Secretariat Mrs. Manori Dehimaduwa and the event was organized by all the Regional Secretaries, Assistant Probation Commissioner (Sabaragamuwa Provincial Council), Senior Probation Officer (Sabaragamuwa Provincial Council), District and Regional Secretariat Offices, Vanita Development, the original children Development, Counseling, Child Rights Promotion Officers and a group joined together.