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Government Agent (Sri Lanka)
A Government Agent (GA) or a District Secretary is a Sri Lankan civil servant of the Sri Lanka Administrative Service appointed by the central government to govern a certain district of the country. The GA is the administrative head of public services in the District. As Sri Lanka has 25 districts, there are 25 governments agents at any given time. History The origins of the role of Government Agent, can be traced back to the appointment of Madrassi Revenue Collectors, whose office became known as a Kachcheri. Following the annexation of the Kingdom of Kandy, the British Governor appointed Resident Agents and Assistant Agents to different parts of the island to overlook revenue collection and maintain government control. The administrative reforms carried out following the Colebrooke–Cameron Commission of Inquiry, the administration of the coastal provinces and the provinces of the former Kingdom of Kandy were merged into a central system which divided the island into five pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sri Lanka Administrative Service
The Sri Lanka Administrative Service (SLAS) ( Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා පරිපාලන සේවය; śrī laṁkā paripālana sēvaya, Tamil:ஸ்ரீ இலங்கை நிருவாக சேவை; Sri lanka niruvágah sévai) is the key administrative service of the Government of Sri Lanka, with civil servants working for both in the Central Government as well as in the provincial councils. It was formed as the ''Ceylon Administrative Service'' (CAS) in 1963 as the successor to the Ceylon Civil Service which was abolished on May 1, 1963. It is the senior of the public services. Based on the British Civil Service the SLAS is the permanent bureaucracy that helps the elected officials on day-to-day functions of government. They are selected, promoted by the Public Service Commission. But top positions in the government such as Permanent Secretaries are appointed by the President, in theory on the recommendations of the Public Service Commission. A Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Gunasekara
Major Victor Joseph Harold Gunasekera, CCS (1921 — 1993) was a former Ceylonese civil servant. The former Controller of Imports Exports, Government Agent of Kegalle and Secretary to the Board of Control for Cricket. A reservist, he was a Major in the Ceylon Artillery and was one of the accused of the attempted military coup of 1962. Educated at the Royal College, Colombo, where he played for the Royal–Thomian and at Ceylon University College. He joined the Ceylon Civil Service and went on to serve as Assistant Government Agent in Galle, Hambantota & Kandy and was the Assistant Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs and Defence. He was instrumental in initiating the Maldive independence. Thereafter he served as He was Government Agent, Kegalle before taking up the post of Controller of Imports Exports. Since the formation of the Ceylon Army The Sri Lanka Army (; ) is the oldest and largest of the Sri Lanka Armed Forces. The army was officially established a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Agents (Sri Lanka)
A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a means by which organizational policies are enforced, as well as a mechanism for determining policy. In many countries, the government has a kind of constitution, a statement of its governing principles and philosophy. While all types of organizations have governance, the term ''government'' is often used more specifically to refer to the approximately 200 independent national governments and subsidiary organizations. The main types of modern political systems recognized are democracies, totalitarian regimes, and, sitting between these two, authoritarian regimes with a variety of hybrid regimes. Modern classification systems also include monarchies as a standalone entity or as a hybrid system of the main three. Historically prevalent forms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Of Sri Lanka
The Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) (; ) is a Semi-presidential republic determined by the Constitution of Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan Constitution. It administers the island from both its commercial capital of Colombo and the administrative capital of Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte. Constitution The Constitution of Sri Lanka has been the constitution of the island nation of Sri Lanka since its original promulgation by the National State Assembly on 7 September 1978. It is Sri Lanka's second republican constitution and its third constitution since the country's independence (as Ceylon) in 1948, after the Donoughmore Constitution, Soulbury Commission, Soulbury Constitution, and Sri Lankan Constitution of 1972, Constitution of 1972. As of October 2020, it has been formally amended 21 times. Executive branch The President, directly elected for a five-year term, is head of state, head of government, Chief executive (gubernatorial), chief executive, and commander-in-chief of the armed for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Penry Lewis
John Penry Lewis CMG (17 September 1854 – 29 September 1923) was a British colonial administrator, antiquarian and archaeologist. Early life and education Lewis was born on 17 September 1854, the second son of Rev John Lewis of Blackheath, Kent. He was educated at Mill Hill School and Queen's University, Ireland where he received his BA (1876) and MA (1882). Career Lewis joined the Ceylon Civil Service in 1877, and then served in various revenue and judicial appointments. From 1897 to 1900, he initiated and administered the newly enacted Waste Land Ordinance. He had to deal with many fictitious claims to Crown Lands, and exposed widespread forgery of land documents which led to prosecutions based on his evidence. Lewis served as Acting Government Agent of the Northern Province (1903–1906) and Superintendent of Pearl Fisheries (1904–1906). In 1906, he was promoted to the substantive post of Government Agent of the Central Province, and as such was Chairman of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Woolf
Leonard Sidney Woolf (; – ) was a British List of political theorists, political theorist, author, publisher, and civil servant. He was married to author Virginia Woolf. As a member of the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party and the Fabian Society, Woolf was an avid publisher of his own work and his wife's novels. A writer himself, Woolf created nineteen individual works and wrote six autobiographies. Leonard and Virginia did not have any children. Early life Woolf was born in London in 1880 the third of ten children of Solomon Rees Sidney Woolf (known as Sidney Woolf), a barrister and Queen's Counsel, and Marie (née de Jongh). His family was Jewish. After his father died in 1892, Woolf was sent to board at Arlington House School near Brighton, Sussex. From 1894 to 1899, he attended St Paul's School (London), St Paul's School, and in 1899 he won a classical scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was elected to the Cambridge Apostles. Other contemporary members in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nissanka Wijeyeratne
Deshamanya Nissanka Parakrama Wijeyeratne () (14 June 1924 – 7 January 2007), known as ''Nissanka Wijeyeratne'', was a Sri Lankan politician, civil service, civil servant, diplomat and English language poet. He was also the 17th Diyawadana Nilame (chief lay custodian) of the Temple of the Tooth, Sri Dalada Maligawa, Kandy from 1975 to 1985. At the time of death he was serving as the chairman of The Law and Society Trust in Sri Lanka. Early life Nissanka Wijeyeratne was born on 14 June 1924 to a leading family from Sabaragamuwa in Sri Lanka. He was the second son of Sir Edwin and Lady Leela Wijeyeratne, of Buddenipola Walauwa, Kegalle. Sir Edwin Wijeyeratne was a former Cabinet Minister of Home Affairs and Rural Development. His elder brother, Tissa Wijeyeratne a barrister by profession, had served as Sri Lankan ambassador to France and Switzerland, Additional Secretary to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Defence, and as the senior adviser on foreign affairs to Prime Minis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Vane
George Vane CMG, CCS, was the twelfth Treasurer of Ceylon (1865-1882), and a member of both the Legislative Council and Governor's Executive Council, under the Robinson, Gregory and Longden administrations. Career Vane was initially appointed to the custom's department in Liverpool in 1834, before being appointed as inspector general of imports and exports in London in 1837, then landing waiter in 1839. In 1847 he was made comptroller of customs in Jaffna, British Ceylon. In 1854 he was the deputy collector of customs in the western and north-western province of Ceylon. Vane served as superintendent of fisheries from 1855 to 1860 and was primarily responsible for administering pearl fishing in the Gulf of Mannar, during that time. In 1887 a report he prepared on the Ceylon pearl fisheries was published by the Royal Asiatic Society. In 1861 he was appointed the principal collector of customs in Ceylon. On 1 September 1865 he was appointed as Treasurer of Ceylon by Gover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Templer
Francis James Templer (6 June 1791 - 22 October 1854) was a British civil servant, who served as the ninth Treasurer of Ceylon from 1 November 1843 to October 1854. He was a member of the 3rd executive council of British Ceylon, the Campbell executive council. Early life Francis James Templer was born on 6 June 1792 at Stover House in Newton Abbot, Devon, England, the youngest son of James Templer (1748 - 1813) and Mary née Buller (1749–1829), third daughter of James Buller (1717–1765). He studied at Blundell's School, Devon from 1801 to 1804. Civil service career Templer entered the Ceylon Civil Service in 1817. He arrived, with his wife Eleanor and family, in Colombo on 13 November 1817, aboard the ''Alexander''. He served as the provincial judge in Calpentyn, the government agent in Ratnapura, the sitting magistrate in Colombo, the collector of Chilaw (1827-1833), the collector and government agent of Colombo (1833-1843), and the fiscal of Jaffna (1845). Temple ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hardinge Hay Cameron
Hardinge Hay Cameron CCS, JP, FRCI (5 August 1846 – 16 September 1911) was the nineteenth Treasurer of Ceylon (1901–1904), and a member of both the Legislative Council and Governor's Executive Council, under the Ridgeway, and Blake administrations. He also served as the Mayor/Chairman of the Colombo Municipal Council (1887–1893). Early life and schooling Hardinge Hay Cameron was born on 5 August 1846 in Chowringhee, Calcutta, Bengal Province, India, the third son and fourth child of Charles Hay Cameron, British jurist, and Julia Margaret née Pattle, British photographer. He was baptised at Fort William, Bengal, on 26 August 1846. He studied at the Charterhouse School, matriculating on 14 October 1865, at the age of nineteen. He then enrolled at University College, Oxford. Career In 1868 he joined the Ceylon Civil Service as a writer, and was appointed as Commissioner of Requests at Haputale. The following year he served as the acting assistant government agent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Districts Of Sri Lanka
Districts (, ) are the second level administrative divisions of Sri Lanka, preceded by Provinces of Sri Lanka, provinces. Sri Lanka has 25 districts organized into 9 provinces. Districts are further divided into a number of Divisional Secretariats of Sri Lanka, divisional secretariats (commonly known as D.S. divisions), which are in turn subdivided into 14,022 grama niladhari divisions. There are 331 DS divisions in Sri Lanka. Each district is administered under a District Secretary, district secretary, who is appointed by the central government. The main tasks of the district secretariat involve coordinating communications and activities of the central government and divisional secretariats. The district secretariat is also responsible for implementing and monitoring development projects at the district level and assisting lower-level subdivisions in their activities, as well as revenue collection and coordination of elections in the district. History The country was first di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Atherton (civil Servant)
Robert Atherton Ceylon Civil Service, CCS, Justice of the peace#Sri Lanka, JP (1801 – 1855) was a 19th-century British colonial official in British Ceylon (present day Sri Lanka) for more than 25 years. After a distinguished career in the Royal Navy, and recipient of the Burma Medal, he held various administrative and judicial roles in the Northern Province, Sri Lanka, Northern Province of Ceylon from 1825 until 1835. He was appointed as Assistant Government Agent (Sri Lanka), Government Agent (A.G.A), Eastern Province, Sri Lanka, Eastern Province of Ceylon, in 1835, 1839, and 1845; A.G.A Northern Province, in 1836, and acted as District Judge, Batticaloa in 1841, and Justice of the peace#Sri Lanka, Justice of the Peace (JP), Eastern Province (1848–1855). Early life Robert Atherton was born in Walton, Liverpool, Walton on the Hill, Liverpool on 8 December 1801, the fourth son of Colonel John Joseph Atherton (1761–1809), Second Lancashire Regiment of Fencibles, Fencib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
