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The Sri Lankan Indigenous Community is featured in a four day exhibition which began at the Vihara Mahadevi Park, Colombo yesterday. The exhibition is organised by the Sirasa media network to mark International Day of Aboriginal Communities which falls on August 9.(Picture by S. Chitrananda)

Spare the red tape and speed the service

"Even in this modern age", a former Minister of Public Administration observed that" the public servant fights shy of the telephone to transact official business, may be from one cubicle in his office to another in the same office, or from one section or division toanother".The senior Minister was addressing his mind to administrative delays, with particular reference to an instance where the delay was barely and squarely laid on the non-delivery of a file from one table to another when, in fact, this matter could have been settled over the telephone in just a few minutes.
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