Over to you Balapitiya Divisional Secretary

THE completed and finalised pension file of a tsunami victim (No. 83-183440) was sent to the Divisional Secretariat of Balapitiya on June 11, 2007 by the Director of Pensions instructing them to issue the documents, work out the payments within a month and requesting a copy of these presentations to be sent back to him.

A copy of the above letter (js je. 11/a) was sent to me by the Pensions Department. When I inquired about it from friends of mine who are working there, I was told that the file has to be sent back as there is a mistake.

I didn’t believe it as the Pensions Department most unlikely would make a mistake in the working out of a pension.

On August 8, I visited the Pensions Department to see what sort of mistake they had made. But they have not received any pension file like that from Balapitiya. I came to the Divisional Secretariat of Balapitiya on the same afternoon.

The file was there untouched for nearly two months. Somebody explained that there was a problem with the instructions and they need more instructions, but had not requested instructions from anywhere.

A copy of that letter should be sent to me and that was a bluff. And it was a pure and deliberate neglect of formal duty. Over to you Divisional Secretary, the inefficiency is at its peak right under your nose.

P. L. L. DE SILVA - Ambalangoda