Regional Office - Killinochchi
Governor, together with senior officials of the Central Bank visited Northern Province to explore suitable solutions for issues in micro finance sector on 07 and 08 September 2020. In relation to that Regional Office – Kilinochchi of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka has been arranged a series of meetings with various groups of stake holders and representatives in Northern Province.
Accordingly, a discussion with the Northern Governor Mrs. P S M Charles at her office on 07 September 2020 was started the series of meeting. Several discussions with District Secretaries, Senior Government Officials, Divisional Secretaries, Northern Regional Heads of Financial Institutions, Representatives of selected micro finance institutions, Representatives of Co-operative Rural Banks and Representatives of civil societies of all five districts of Northern Province are taken place on 07 and 08 September 2020.
In addition, Governor and senior officials of the Central Bank visited to meet successful entrepreneurs in Jaffna & Kilinochchi as a part of the visit. (Tastra Industries, Jaffna and Possible Green (Pvt) Ltd, Kilinochchi).
Regional Office - Kilinochchi of Central Bank of Sri Lanka has successfully conducted a webinar on ‘Advanced Financial Literacy’ (Training of Trainers) on 25 January 2021 for selected Development Officers in Jaffna District with the collaboration of Centre for Banking Studies. 94 Development Officers from District Secretariat and various divisional secretariats of Jaffna actively participated and benefitted from the webinar. Dr. L Sritharan, Deputy Director, Macro Prudential Surveillance Department, Central Bank of Sri Lanka served as the resource person of the webinar.
Regional Office – Kilinochchi of Central Bank of Sri Lanka successfully conducted a webinar on ‘Impacts of COVID 19 on businesses and the ways to overcome’ on 08 January 2021 and Dr. L Sritharan, Deputy Director, Macroprudential Surveillance Department, Central Bank of Sri Lanka was contributed as resource person. Businessmen, Entrepreneurs and general public actively participated and benefitted from the webinar and the recording has been uploaded on the official Facebook page of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka for the interested beneficiaries.
A webinar was conducted on ‘Compilation of National Accounts’ with the collaboration of Economic Research Department and Centre for Banking Studies on 18 September 2020 for A/L Economics teachers in Northern Province. 133 teachers attended the webinar. The resource person of the webinar was Mr. M Kesavaraja, Senior Economist, Economic Research Department, Central Bank of Sri Lanka.
Another webinar was conducted on ‘Digital Future of Payments in Sri Lanka’ with the collaboration of Payments and Settlements Department and Centre for Banking Studies on 09 December 2020 for officials of Licensed Commercial and Specialised Banks in Northern Province. 80 officers from banks actively participated and benefitted from the webinar. The resource person of the webinar was Mr. P G G N Rupasinghe, Senior Assistant Director, Payments and Settlements Department, Central Bank of Sri Lanka.
A virtual awareness programme on ‘Obtaining GMP & SLS Certificates’ was successfully conducted by Regional Office - Kilinochchi of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka for 30 selected SMEs in Northern Province on 17 December 2021.