Officers of the Department of Pensions have made arrangements to commence its functions today , the first working day after celebrating the traditions of Sinhala and Tamil new year. During the function, Mr. A jagath D Dias, Director General of Pensions extended his new year greetings to the pensionsers community of over 710,000 including officers working attached to the Head Office of the Department of Pensions, officers working attached to Divisional Secretariats all over the Island.
He further extended his gratitude to the officers who shoulder huge responsibilities behind the screen to assure pension benefits to all the officers retire from public service and their heirs applying the modern information and communication technology. In the meantime he pointed out the fact that the commitment of all staff is highly necessary to build a well secured pension scheme with the new year by way of finding solutions for the crisis faced by pensioners as the Department had successfully faced with challenges during the recent past for the maintenance of pension scheme.
The programme, which is carried out every as per the concept introduced by the Director General to appreciate the employees of cleaning service, has also been conducted to give due recognition to them for their commitment to maintain the cleanliness internal and outside environment.
The Director General, Mrs. Sujani Peththawadu, Additional Director of Pensions and all the officers have participated in the event. This short celebration, which was held whilst providing services to the pensioners, who have come for the interview, conducted at Sathkara Piyasa for activating pension and for various other matters, was followed by a traditional sweetmeat table arranged by the Welfare Society of the Department and officers and the recipients of the Department have joined with this happy moment.