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Yet another chapter unfolds towards the restructuring of the issuance process of Birth, Marriage and Death certificates. According to the Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka that functions under the Presidential Secretariat, 800,000 birth certificates have been digitized at the Thimbirigasyaya Divisional Secretariat.
The digitized birth certificates were opened for public viewing today by Minister of Public Administration and Home Affairs, Karu Jaysuriya. Minister of Home Affairs – Chandrasiri Gajadeera, Secretary to the Ministry of Public Administration- D. Dissanayake, Prof. V.K. Samaranayake, Chairman - ICTA and Reshan Dewapura, COO – ICTA were also be present.
The special project named the ‘BMD Document Conversion Project’ held in line with the eDivisional Secretariat (eDS) programme will enable Divisional Secretariats (DS) to cut processing time to as little as 5 minutes in the issuance of vital documents, said Wasantha Deshapriya, Programme Director, ICTA.
The BMD project was launched today at the Thimibirigasyaya DS, said W.N.R.P. Wijayapala, Divisional Secretary. It is also the DS with the most number of births and deaths registered. Three million births, 600,000 deaths and 800,000 marriages have been registered. |
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