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Procurement & Construction

Mrs. K.D.R.Nishanthi Jayasinghe

Additional Secretary (Procurement & Construction)

Mrs. K. A. D. R. Nishanthi has served in Sri Lanka Administrative Service as an Assistant Director, an Assistant Divisional Secretary, a Divisional Secretary and a Senior Assistant Secretary since 1993 and is currently holding the position of Additional Secretary (Procurement and building) in the Ministry of Education.

She has more than 20 years of experience in the field of Management and Administration and has served in the department of pensions, Divisional Secretory office (Horana), the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health and Indigenous Medical Services in different capacities.

Mrs. K. A. D. R. Nishanthi holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (special) degree from the University of Sri Jayawardanapura and holds a postgraduate degree of Arts in Economics from University of Kelaniya.

Contact Details

Procurement Branch

Main Functions

Preparing procurement plan (ESDG/CF)

Preparation bidding documents, issuing and opening

Forming Procurement Committee/Technical Committee and activities related convening them & etc.

Directing procurement committee and providing the facilities

School Buildings Branch

Vision & Mission

Vision

To make safe and comfortable built environment for the community of the educational establishments

Mission

Committed to enforce engineering, architectural and environmental standards for sustainable constructions within the educational establishments

Main Functions

Procuring of works: Schools, National Colleges of Education(NCOE), Teacher Training Colleges(TC) etc. with the support of Provincial Education and Engineering Departments and the Project office of ‘Nearest School is the Best School’ (NSBS)

Technical instructions and skills development to the Provincial Engineering Department and staff

Designing buildings and other infrastructure for Schools, NCOE, TC etc.

Circulars and manuals for construction, repair and maintenance works

School Supplies Branch

Vision & Mission

Vision

Supply of learning materials to schools and related institution on time and maintaining the quality by minimizing the storage period in order to provide maximum education service

Mission

Distribution of general learning materials to all national schools and special learning materials to all schools as well as related institutions with the coordination of provincial and zonal officials

Main Functions

Providing appropriate space to store the goods and equipment in proper ways which are procured by the subject Director through the procurement unit based on the requirement of the each subjects

Making arrangements to deliver the goods to the appropriate destinations based on the information provided by the respective subject Directors after obtaining the report from the technical evaluation committees