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by Uditha Kumarasinghe

The Rana Viru Seva Authority (RVSA) is conducting Rana Viru Mobile Services islandwide to provide swift solutions to the problems faced by war heroes' families.

This mobile service has been implemented by the RVSA on the instructions of President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, in collaboration with the Community Legal Aid Project of the Justice Ministry, a RVSA spokesman told the Daily News yesterday.

The mobile service has given priority to legal problems encountered by Rana Viru families.

He said:" The RVSA conducts a welfare unit at its head office in Colombo to look into the problems faced by war heroes' families. Nearly 300 letters are received by the RVSA daily. Each letter is carefully read and the problems identified to provide immediate measures. But the only drawback is that families of Service Personnel have to come to Colombo and seek the assistance of various institutions to settle their problems, facing various hardships.

The key objective of this mobile service is to assist these families to settle their problems under one roof at district level."

Under this program, the RVSA has already conducted two mobile services in Anuradhapura and Matara districts benefitting nearly 15,000 Rana Viru families. The Third mobile service will be held at the Kurunegala Technical College on October 5 from 9.00 am.

A large number of State and private sector institutions have extended their cooperation to the RVSA to conduct this mobile service. Legal services, pensions, Provident Fund services, identity cards, housing and self employment loans, vocational training opportunities and employment for children of war heroes in the private sector will be offered for the benefit of Rana Viru families at the mobile campaigns, he added. 

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