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Sri Lanka has experienced decentralization practices from deconcentration administration (Kachcheri system) from the time of Colebrook (1833) to devolution of Government power (Provincial Councils system) in 1987. Provincial Councils (PCs) are given 37 subjects under the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution including land (administration). The Divisional Secretariat (DS) system (Deconcentration administration system at the divisional level) established in 1992 to with the objective of providing public service under one roof without going to district, provincial or national level institutions. Due to this new system a large number of functions and responsibilities had to retransfer to the Centre from PCs. Some responsibilities of land administration are one among them.

i Devolution versus Deconcentration: A Study on Land Service Delivery System in Sri Lanka Submitted By Mahamamadachchi. Komalee Nadeeka Damayanthi 2011 Master in Public Policy and Governance Programme Department of General and Continuning Education ...

In Sri Lanka rural poverty ratio was recorded as 60 percent in 1950 and it has reduced to 9.4 percent by 2009/10. Further, national poverty ratio had been reduced from 26 percent in 1990 to 8.9 percent by 2009/10. Successive governments had followed a number of strategies such as enactment and implementation of Land Development Ordinance, implementation of redistribution policies including free health and free education as well as provisions of food subsidy and micro-finance for the poor. They had largely contributed for the achievements in poverty reduction. In the present scenario, micro-finance is being used widely as a strategy for poverty alleviation all over the world. The Samurdhi programme- a major poverty alleviation programme of the government- use micro-finance strategy under the Samurdhi Bank Unions which was implemented from 1996 onward under the Article 5 (d) of the Samurdhi Authority Act Number 30 of 1995. This study was conducted in Kalutara, Kurunegala, Batticaloa, ...