Health Division

  • Garbage collection with the area
  • Waste management
  • Issuing and renewal of environmental licences
  • Cleaning of septic tanks using gully bowsers
  • Providing Ayurvedic medical treatment
  • Dental clinic

Revenue Division

  •  Non-vesting certificate
  • Change of Ownership of Assessement (A.T.D.)
  • Payment of rates
  • Payment of business/industry tax
  • Issuing of trade licences
  • Licensing of clubs
  • Bicycle licences / permits for public shows
  • Advertisements
  • Reserving of playgrounds / reserving of town halls/community halls
  • Reserving of crematoriums / reserving of cemeteries
  • Reserving of memorials in cemeteries
Services we provide with the tax money
  • Development and maintenance of rural roads
  • Public health and safety
  • Paediatric and maternity clinics
  • Street lighting
  • Ayurvedic treatment services
  • Preschools
  • Aesthetic education services
  • Vocational training courses
  • Public market and weekly market development activities
  • Public welfare activities

Buildings and Industrial Division

  • Approval of subdivision of lands.
  • Approval of plans.
  •  Approval of building plans.
  • Extension of Building Development Permits.
  • Issuing of certificates of conformity.
  • Approval of boundary wall and retention wall plans.
  • Handling complaints about approvals
  • Handling complaints about dangerous trees
  • Handling complaints from the public
Works completed by the building section in 2015 …
Number of building applications approved1313
Number of land plot applications approved1863
Number of street line certificates issued3517
Number of certificates of conformity issued
Number of completed industries312

Library services

  • Maharagama Urban Councils operates 4 public libraries in the following locations:
    • Maharagama Head Office
    • Rukmale
    • Madiwela
    • Kottawa Kulasewana,

    And provides the following services:

    1. Awarding library membership
    2. Mobile library services
    3. Renewal of membership.

Services provided by the Development Division

  • Registration of Community Boards
  • Handling public complaints
  • Takeover of roads

Other services

    • Preschool
    • Maharagama Head Office
    • Rukmalgama
    • Mirihana
    • Delgahawatta
    • Ayurvedic services
    • Dental clinic
    • Services are provided by 09 crematoriums
    • Running and coordinating community boards and community halls for the benefit of the villages
    • Community training programmes

    Sisila Uyana Training Center

Our community training programmes …
    1. Sisila Uyana Self Employed Training Course

Maharagama Urban Council conducts a self-employment training programme in order to empower school leavers and unemployed women in the Maharagama Urban Council area and to strengthen their economy. This programme consists of eight courses which are conducted free of charge.

1.

  • Handicrafts training course
  • Curtain and patchwork training course
  • Beauty culture training course
  • Hairdressing training course
  • Fabric painting training course
  • Sewing training course
  • Footwear making training course
  • Bag making training course

2. Vocational Training Course – Maharagama Urban Council