President Anura Dissanayake announced plans to digitize Sri Lanka’s public services, allowing citizens to handle tasks like paying taxes from the comfort of their homes. Speaking at a National People’s Power campaign rally in Homagama, Dissanayake highlighted the shift from traditional bureaucratic processes to a modern, efficient digital system.
He emphasized the need to move beyond outdated methods such as queuing for bus tickets, visiting post offices, or scrambling to obtain essential documents like birth and death certificates, land deeds, and identity cards. The goal is to make public services more accessible and efficient through a new ministry dedicated to digitization.
Dissanayake shared plans to appoint an expert with extensive experience in Sri Lanka’s IT sector as the secretary of the new ministry, who will also serve as the chairman of the national IT institute. He projected that within three to four years, Sri Lanka’s public service would be transformed, significantly enhancing efficiency.
Reassuring the public, he stated, “The trust and hope you put in us will not be broken. We will continue this journey strongly.” Addressing skeptics, he dismissed concerns about the initiative’s stability, affirming that the National People’s Power is committed to building the nation through this ambitious digital transformation.
