First regional office of Registration of Persons opens in Vavuniya
Vavuniya North Group Corr
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An Office of the Department for Registration of Persons was
opened at the Vavuniya Kachcheri Complex yesterday by the
Commissioner General of the Department R M Sarath Kumara.
The new office, the first of its kind in the outstations,
was opened to expedite the issuing of NICs to people in
Vavuniya, Mannar, Kilinochchi, Mullaithivu, Jaffna,
Anuradhapura and Trincomalee districts. Picture by Vavuniya
North group cor |
An office of the Department for the Registration of Persons was
opened at the Vavuniya kachcheri complex yesterday by Commissioner
General of the Department R M Sarath Kumara. The office building costing
Rs 10 million was built under a programme funded by the UNDP.
Speaking at the opening ceremony, Sarath Kumara said the new office
the first of its kind in the outstations was opened to expedite the
issuing of NICs to people in Vavuniya, Mannar, Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu,
Jaffna, Anuradhapura and Trincomalee districts. They hoped to issue new
NICs to the residents in the North especially who lost their identity
cards due to terrorism.He said the new office is equipped to issue an
NIC to an applicant within a fortnight.
Secretary Ministry of National Languages Malkanthi Wickremasinghe,
Defence Ministry Additional Secretary S Hettiarachchi, Vavuniya GA
Bandula Harischandra, Mannar GA Sarath Raveendra and Kilinochchi GA
Rupawathie Kethiswaran were also present. |
