The citizen forum was highly welcome by Divisional Secretary

The citizen forum committee members met Mrs. Sasidevi Jalatheepan who is the divisional secretary of town and gravest division on 11 and 30 of October 2011 at the secretariat office in Trincomalie. The convener of citizen forum, three committee members, district animator and two NAFSO secretariat staffs attended to the meeting to discuss on objective of forming citizen forum and their role for regional development. The citizen forum was highly welcome as civil society by the divisional secretary and she appreciated  to the citizen forum because DS would like to get civil participation on regional development. She mentioned that they were unable to get sufficient people  participant for previous development in the divisional areas. They have to get 25% peoples participant for any development process implementing through the divisional secretariat as government procedure but they had no wider linkage with civil communities like this without rural development society.
As a result of meeting DS, we were able succeed   very important objectives which are related to the regional development. 

DS agreed to give an opportunity to participate two members of citizen forum for all committee meetings related to the development issues in the area. As that statement, the citizen forum was invited to participate to the disaster management committee which has been organized to prepare a plan to face the bad weather condition. They are going to plan as prior preparation to face the flood getting participation of the people. 

The citizen forum was permitted  to participate for civil security committee
The divisional secretary agreed to hold a mobile service on the problems  that people are facing in the village level specially in Mahamayapura area. She said that it wants to collect and list out all  issues people are facing and send to the divisional secretariat for reference before hold the mobile service. She agreed to convene all officers who are related to the issues that people identify as  priority issues. 

The citizen forum members inquired to DS against the grama sevaka who works in Mahamayapura area. People had a great suspicion about the land survey conducted in Mahamayapura area but there was a planned  awareness program to educate the people on the survey basis on the Grama Sevaka. The awareness program was not conducted sufficiently by the Grama sevak in Mahamayapura area. 

As a result of that, people fidgeted because of not having any ways to know correct information about the survey. As above careless role as well as other inquiries against to the Grama Sewaka , DS agreed to transfer the Grama sewaka and point to the new Gramasewaka in next January 2012.
DS permitted to hold the citizen forum meeting in the hall of the divisional secretariat office if it wants that opportunity.