Polonnaruwa

Grama Niladhari Divisions Statistics - 2020
Polonnaruwa District
ISBN 978-624-5919-24-6
Department of Census & Statistics

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ISBN 978-624-5919-24-6
Department of Census & Statistics

“Sankyana Mandiraya”
No. 306/71, Polduwa Road, Battaramulla Department of Census and Statistics
🌐 www.statistics.gov.lk
Ministry of Economic Policies and Plan Implementation
 info@statistics.gov.lk
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Highlights
Polonnaruwa district consists with 7 Divisional Secretariat Divisions and 294 Grama
Niladhari Divisions.
141,451 families are registered in election roll while highest percentage (21.9%) is
reported from Thamankaduwa Divisional Secretariat Division and lowest (8.9%) is
reported from Welikanda Divisional Secretariat Division.
Four Divisional Secretariat Divisions contain at least one railway station and the Boat/
Ferry jetty providing transport facility is available only within two Divisional Secretariat
Divisions.
Each and every Divisional Secretariat Division has the facility of one or more Government
or private hospital. Further, 58% of the Grama Niladhari Divisions (facility not available
within the Grama Niladhari Division) report 5 km or more distance to access the facility of
Government or private hospital.
Twenty one percent of the Grama Niladhari Divisions report that the facility of
Government or private school which offers classes for A/L is available within the GN. The
facility of Government or private school which offers classes for O/L or below grades is
available within 65% of the Grama Niladhari Divisions. Five Divisional Secretariat Divisions
have at least one or more schools or institutes for children with special needs.
Public library/Reading room facilities are at comparatively low level in the district (10%).
Solid Waste Disposal System provided by local government is available in 73 (24.8%) of

Grama Niladhari Divisions.
Pipe borne water from National water supply or community base organization is available
in 62 (21%) Grama Niladhari Divisions.
Wood (31.6%), Textile and textile handicrafts industries (12.6%) and Clay industry (8.5%)
are the most common Traditional Handicraft Industries found in the district.
Majority of GN Divisions report damages caused by wild elephants (66%), droughts (62%),
storms/hurricanes (52%), and floods (42%) under disasters happened during last 10 years.
36,467 “Samurdhi” receivers and 5,561 elderly allowances receivers are reported at the
time of data collection.
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Preface
A complete set of statistics on Grama Niladhari Divisions (GNDs) are published once
in ten years with the Census of Population and Housing (CPH) conducted by the
Department of Census and Statistics (DCS). However, GNDs have undergone a massive
social as well as economic changes during the previous ten-year inter-census period,
and, therefore, relevant and timely data to capture these changes is vital as a basis
for development planning and also for the planning and implementation of the CPH.
Therefore, having understood the importance of data for regional level development
activities and for CPH 2021, the DCS conducted a collection of basic information on
Grama Niladhari Divisions (GNI).
The data gathered in this activity includes information on the availability of basic facilities
of the Grama Niladhari Division and the information on infrastructure, consumption of
land, Government subsidies, and disaster situations. Data collection was carried out
during fourth quarter 2020 and the first quarter of 2021, covering the entire country.
Despite the prevailed situation of spreading COVID-19 pandemic throughout the
country which occurred during the data collection period, the activity was completed
successfully.
This report presents results related to the basic information on Grama Niladhari
Divisions in Polonnaruwa district at Divisional Secretariat level. Detailed information
on Grama Niladhari Divisions will be published on Department's website. I believe this
report as well as the full dataset will be highly beneficial for evidence-based decision
making at any administrative level of the country.
P.M.P. Anura Kumara

Director General
Department of Census and Statistics
2022-02-25
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Acknowledgment
The report “Grama Niladhari Divisions Statistics - 2020: Polonnaruwa District” is prepared based on the
data collected from all Grama Niladhari Divisions (GNDs) in Polonnaruwa district. The data collection was
simultaneously covered all GNDs in the entire country.
This data collection was conducted under the direction and guidance of former Director General, Dr. I.R.
Bandara, present Director General, Mr. M.P.M. Anura Kumara and under the guidance of Mrs. D.D.G.A.
Seneviratne, Additional Director General (Statistics). Planning and execution of the data collection was
carried out by staff of the Population Census and Demography Division under the guidance of Mrs. W.A.C.
Wijebandara, the Director and Mr. A.G.S. Kariyawasam, Mr. W.P.S. Sisilarathna the Deputy Directors.
Activities of the data collection process were organized and supervised by Mrs. A.N. De Silva, Mr. E.M.C. De
Seram, Ms. W.S.D. Jayasundara, Mrs. H.B.M.R.L. Karunarathna, Mrs. I.R. Haputhanthri, Mr. G.W.Siriwardana,
Mrs. M.D. Teckla Kumari, Mr. S. Jayavinthan, Mr. W.M.I.B. Wijekoon, Mr. T.D.S. Darshana and Ms. T.H.A.S.
De Silva, Statisticians of Population Census and Demography Division. These activities were assisted by
Mrs. T.R.D.Padmasiri, Mr. S. Poogunran, Mrs. A.W.A.D.A.R. Abesekara, Mr. M.B.M. Shiras, Mrs. W.M.S.
Nilushini, Mr. K.H.B.D. Pushpakumara and Mrs. H.P.K. Niwarthana Statistical officers of the Division and
Ms. W.P.Y Perera (Development Officer). All the Development Officers, Information and Communication
Technology Assistants (ICTAs) and Coding Clerks of the Population Census and Demography Division
supported to the whole process.
The preparation of questionnaire, instruction manual and training guide was done by Mrs. T.R.D.Padmasiri,
Statistical officer and the computer data processing and final tabulations were done by Mrs. W.M.S.
Nilushini, Statistical Officer under the supervision of statisticians Mrs. A.N. De Silva and Mr. G.W.Siriwardana
with the guidance of Mrs. W.A.C. Wijebandara, the Director. This report is prepared and organized by Ms.
G.L.I.Dhananjani (DO), with the direct supervision of the Statisticians, Deputy Directors snd Director of the
Division.
Mr. E.M.D. Ekanayake, Deputy Director (ICT) of Information and Communication Technology Division
contributed for development of data entry and computer editing programmes and for management of
data collection process, under the direction of Mr. P.M.R. Fernando, Director (ICT) and the supervision of
Mr.W.H.P.W. Weerasiri, Director (ICT). All ICT Division staff who have contributed from planning stage of
the data collection to the data dissemination are highly appreciated for their valuable support.
Under the supervision of Mr.D.R.M.C.M. Rathnayake, Statistician/Head of Statistics Branch in Polonnaruwa

district, the District Statistical Officers/Statistical Assistants carried out the data collection process while
ICTAs were engaged in data entry. Special gratitude should go to them for their contribution to make the
GNI data collection process a success.
Printing the questionnaires, instruction manuals and reports were done at the Printing Division of the
Department, under the guidance of Mrs. U.V.Jayakody, Director, Printing Division and under supervision
of Mr. M.I.K.P.Kumara, Statistician. Mr. O.C.S. Kumara De Silva, Printing Manager (cover of duty) and the
printing staff are appreciated for their support given throughout the process.
The contribution of Grama Niladharis in providing information under the guidance of Divisional Secretary
helped immensely to make this data collection successful. Therefore, I wish to express my appreciation to
all the Grama Niladharis and Divisional Secretaries for their valuable support. Finally, I wish to convey a
special word of appreciation to District Secretary for all the support rendered for the whole process.
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Contents
Preface.......................................................................................................................................................... III
Acknowledgment..........................................................................................................................................V
List of Tables...............................................................................................................................................VIII
List of Figures...............................................................................................................................................XI
1. Introduction.........................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Background information of the Grama Niladhari and Grama Niladhari Divisions....................1
2. Availability of Basic facilities................................................................................................................3
2.1 Transport...................................................................................................................................3
2.2 Health........................................................................................................................................6
2.3 Education..................................................................................................................................9
2.4 Communication.......................................................................................................................11
2.5 Facilities provided by local government.................................................................................14
2.6 Other Facilities........................................................................................................................17
3. Threats spread over the Grama Niladhari (GN) Division...................................................................21
3.1 Prevalence of Drugs as a menace in the Grama Niladhari (GN) Division................................21
3.2 Prevalence of Alcohol as a menace in the Grama Niladhari (GN) Division.............................21
4. Availability of Traditional Handicraft Industries.................................................................................22
5. Disasters faced in last 10 years ........................................................................................................23
6. Information of economic activities....................................................................................................24
6.1 Major economic activities involved.........................................................................................24
6.2 Information of major Irrigation Schemes used for Paddy and Other Crops...........................24
6.3 Information of abandoned government reservations can be cultivated.................................25
6.4 Availability of Supportive Centres/Institutions for Agricultural, Livestock &

Fisheries activities...................................................................................................................25
7. Information of the places which provides basic facility.....................................................................28
8. Information of Government beneficiaries.........................................................................................29
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List of Tables
Table 1.1 Number of Grama Niladhari Divisions by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division..............................1
Table 1.2 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division and by
permanent or acting status...........................................................................................................................2
Table 1.3 Number of families registered in the election roll by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division.............2
Table 1.4 Number of pensioners by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division......................................................2
Table 1.5 Number of ‘Ranaviru’ families and disabled ‘Ranaviru’ persons by Divisional Secretariat
Division (DSD)................................................................................................................................................2
Table 2.1 Number of Grama Niladhari Divisions in which transport facilities are available within the
Grama Niladhari Division by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division..................................................................3
Table 2.2 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions by minimum distance to access Public transport
bus start/destination and by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division..................................................................4
Table 2.3 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions by minimum distance to access Railway Station
and by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division....................................................................................................4
Table 2.4 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions by minimum distance to access Three-wheel park
Table 2.5 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions by minimum distance to access Boat/Ferry jetty
Table 2.6 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions by minimum distance to access Road of
transporting buses/vans/lorries across or near the GN division and by Divisional Secretariat (DS)
Division..........................................................................................................................................................6
Table 2.7 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions where Health facilities are available within
Table 2.8 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions by minimum distance to access Government or
private hospital and Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division...............................................................................7
Private Dispensary and Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division..........................................................................7
Table 2.10 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions by minimum distance to access Maternity
Clinic/Baby Clinic and Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division............................................................................8
Table 2.11 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions by minimum distance to access Office of the
MOH and Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division...............................................................................................8
private school that has classes for A/L and by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division.....................................10
private school that has classes for O/L or below and by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division.....................10
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Table 2.14 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions by minimum distance to access Kindergarten/
Pre-school/Early Childhood Development Centre and by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division..................11
Table 2.15 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions where communication facilities are available
within Grama Niladhari Division and by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division..............................................11
Table 2.16 Number of Grama Niladari (GN) Divisions by minimum distance to access Vidatha/
Nenasala Centres and by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division.....................................................................13
Table 2.17 Number of Grama Niladari (GN) Divisions by minimum distance to access Communication
Centres and by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division....................................................................................13
Table 2.18 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions where local government facilities are available
within Grama Niladhari (GN) Division and by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division......................................14
Table 2.19 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions by minimum distance to access public
playground and by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division...............................................................................14
Table 2.20 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions by minimum distance to access children park
and by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division..................................................................................................15
Table 2.21 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions by minimum distance to access Praja Shaalawa
and by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division..................................................................................................15
Table 2.22 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions by minimum distance to access Public Library/
Reading Room and by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division.........................................................................15
Table 2.23 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions by minimum distance to access Cemetery and
by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division.........................................................................................................16
Table 2.24 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions by minimum distance to Marketplace/Fair/
Public Store and by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division..............................................................................16
Table 2.25 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions where other facilities are available within
Grama Niladhari (GN) Division by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division........................................................17
Table 2.26 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions in which a solid waste disposal system is
available by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division..........................................................................................19
Table 2.27 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions in which a pipe borne water is available by
Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division .............................................................................................................19
Table 2.28 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions in which a regional hydroelectric power
stations/other small power plants are available by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division .............................20
Table 3.1 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions where prevalence drugs as a menace by
Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division..............................................................................................................21
Table 3.2 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions where prevalence alcohol as a menace by
Table 4.1 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions with available Traditional Handicraft Industries
by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division.........................................................................................................22
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Table 5.1 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions by type of the disaster and by Divisional
Secretariat (DS) Division..............................................................................................................................23
Table 6.1 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions by type of economic activities involved and by
Table 6.2 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions by type of Irrigation scheme using for paddy
cultivation and other crops by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division.............................................................24
Table 6.3 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions having government reservations which can be
cultivated by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division........................................................................................25
Table 6.4 Number of GN Divisions in which supportive centres/Institutions for Agriculture are
available by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division..........................................................................................25
Table 6.5 Number of Agriculture related centres/institutions by type of centre/institution and by

Divisional Secretariat Division (DS)..............................................................................................................26
Table 6.6 Number of GN Divisions in which supportive centres/Institutions for Livestock & fisheries
are available by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division....................................................................................26
Table 6.7 Number of Livestock & fisheries centres/institutions by type of centre/Institution and by
Divisional Secretariat Division (DS)..............................................................................................................27
Table 7.1 Number of places/institutes which provides basic facilities by Divisional Secretariat (DS)
Division........................................................................................................................................................28
Table 8.1 The Number of Government beneficiaries by type of Benefit and Divisional Secretariat (DS)
Division........................................................................................................................................................29
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List of Figures
Figure 1.1 Distribution of Grama Niladhari(Permanent) by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division and by sex.1
Figure 2.1 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions where education facilities are available within
Figure 2.2 Number of Grama Niladhari Divisions by minimum distance to access post office/Sub Post
Office or Agency Post Office and by DS Division.......................................................................................12
Figure 2.3 Number of Grama Niladhari Divisions by minimum distance to access other facility and by
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1. Introduction
The GNI-2020 is a census type of data collection conducted during last half of the year 2020 in all around the country in
parallel to Census of Population and Housing 2021. This special enumeration collected various information on Grama
Niladhari Division which is the smallest administrative area in Sri Lanka. It covered all 25 districts in Sri Lanka and
interviewed or asked to self-report by the officer named “Grama Niladhari (GN)” who is responsible for the particular
GN Division. The main objective of this was to build a supportive database which provides basic information by the
smallest administrative area for data users. Further, the data was collected on important aspects covering socio and
economic related areas. This report presents the summarized statistics on Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division using the
data collected at GN Division level for the Polonnaruwa district. Polonnaruwa district GNI-2020 data were collected
during the fourth quarter 2020. The main themes covered at the data collection were,
• Background information about the immediate responsible officer for the administrative area “Grama
Niladhari (GN)”
• Information on the distance to the nearest location where basic facilities are available
• Information on threats (drugs and alcohol) spread over the GN Divisions, availability of handicraft
industries and disasters faced during last 10 years
• Information on economic activities (major economic activities involved, major irrigation schemes
used and abundant government reservations which can be cultivated)
• Information on availability of facilitating centers for agricultural, livestock & fisheries activities
• Information on the availability of places which provide basic facilities to people
• Information on government beneficiaries for selected types of benefits.
1.1 Background information of the Grama Niladhari and Grama Niladhari

Divisions
Table 1.1 Number of Grama Niladhari Divisions by
Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division
District and DS Division No. of GN Divisions
Polonnaruwa District 294
Hingurakgoda 53
Medirigiriya 45
Lankapura 28
Welikanda 29
Dimbulagala 56
Thamankaduwa 55
Elahera 28
The Polonnaruwa district has 07 Divisional Secretariate

Divisions as Hingurakgoda, Medirigiriya, Lankapura,
Welikanda, Dimbulagala, Thamankaduwa and Elahera
which totals to 294 Grama Niladhari divisions in the
district.
As depicted in Figure 1.1, the district’s majority are female

officers. The maximum and minimum male distribution
coming from the Dimbulagala and Elahera DS Division
respectively. And also the highest number of females is
in Hingurakgoda DS Division and the lowest number of
females is in Elahera DS Division.
Figure 1.1 Distribution of Grama
Niladhari(Permanent) by Divisional Secretariat (DS)
Division and by sex
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Table 1.2 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions Table 1.4 Number of pensioners by Divisional
by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division and by Secretariat (DS) Division
permanent or acting status
No. of Pensionerss
Status District and DS Division No. %
District and DS Division Permanent Acting Polonnaruwa District 9870 100.0
Polonnaruwa District 250 44 Hingurakgoda 2468 25.0
Hingurakgoda 50 3 Medirigiriya 1555 15.8
Medirigiriya 39 6 Lankapura 588 6.0
Lankapura 25 3 Welikanda 417 4.2
Welikanda 23 6 Dimbulagala 1174 11.9
Dimbulagala 53 3 Thamankaduwa 2737 27.7
Thamankaduwa 43 12 Elahera 931 9.4
Elahera 18 10
As given in the Table 1.4, 9870 pensioners reported from
Due to various administrative reasons some GN Divisions Polonnaruwa District. The highest number of pensioners
may be vacant without a permanent officer. Therefore, reported from Thamankaduwa (2737) DS Division. Welikanda
a GN who is permanently attached to another division DS reports the lowest number of pensioners which is 4.2%
is assigned as an acting officer for a temporary period (417) of Polonnaruwa total.
till the vacancy is filled. Table 1.2 gives the number of
GN Divisions by permanent or acting status of the GN Table 1.5 Number of ‘Ranaviru’ families and disabled
in Polonnaruwa district during the data collection period ‘Ranaviru’ persons by Divisional Secretariat Division
and for each DS Division. It shows that out of 294 total (DSD)
GN Divisions 250 have permanent officers and other
44 function as acting domains. However, numbers of Disabled
vacant GN Divisions differ across DS Divisions. At the ‘Ranaviru’ ‘Ranaviru’
time of data collection Thamankaduwa and Elahera show District and DS Division Families persons
comparatively large number of acting GNs. Polonnaruwa District 10609 719
Hingurakgoda 1985 115
Table 1.3 Number of families registered in the
Medirigiriya 2581 152
election roll by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division
Lankapura 651 42
Families registered in Welikanda 1184 35
the election roll
Dimbulagala 1929 139
District and DS Division No. %
Thamankaduwa 1162 124
Polonnaruwa District 141451 100.0
Elahera 1117 112
Hingurakgoda 20553 14.5
Medirigiriya 21612 15.3 At the time of data collection there are 10,609 ‘Ranaviru’
Lankapura 12830 9.1
families and 719 ‘Disable Ranaviru’ persons in Polonnaruwa
district (Table 1.5). Medirigiriya has the highest percentage
Welikanda 12487 8.8 in both Ranaviru and Disabled Ranaviru families which are
Dimbulagala 27961 19.8 24.32% and 21.14% respectively.
Thamankaduwa 30931 21.9
Elahera 15077 10.7
The total number of families registerd in election

roll in Polonnaruwa District is 141451. Out of that
Thamankaduwa DS Division has the highest number of
families which is 30,931 and the minimum number of
families which is 12,487 has reported from Welikanda DS
Division.
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2. Availability of Basic facilities

This section presents the information on the availability of basic facilities within the GN Division and on the distance to
the nearest location where the basic facilities are available. Data collects on six facilities as follows:
1. Transport
Public transport (bus) start/end destination, railway station, three -wheel park, boat/ferry jetty, road
which transport buses/vans/lorries across or near the GN Division
2. Health
Government or private hospital, government or private dispensary, maternity clinic/baby clinic,
MOH’s office
3. Education
Government or private school which offers classes for A/L, government or private school offering
classes for O/L, kindergarten/pre-school/early childhood development centre
4. Communication
Government post office/sub post office or agency post office, Vidhatha Centre/Nena Sala Centre,
communication centre
5. Facilities provided by Local government

Public playground, Children park, Praja Shalawa, Public Library/Reading Room, Cemetery,
Marketplace/Fair/Public Store
6. Other facilities
Branch of government or private bank, Filling station, Police station, DS office, Local government
office
2.1 Transport
Availability of Transport Facilities within Grama Niladhari (GN) Division
Table 2.1 Number of Grama Niladhari Divisions in which transport facilities are available within the Grama
Niladhari Division by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division
Number of GN Divisions with Transport facility available within the division
Public
Total No. transport Road near
of GN bus start/end Railway Three -wheel Boat/Ferry the GN
District and DS Division Divisions destination Station park jetty Division*
Polonnaruwa District 294 59 12 85 2 264
Hingurakgoda 53 12 4 19 - 50
Medirigiriya 45 6 - 10 - 43
Lankapura 28 6 - 7 1 24
Welikanda 29 4 3 7 - 22
Dimbulagala 56 7 1 16 - 52
Thamankaduwa 55 15 4 17 1 46
Elahera 28 9 - 9 - 27
* Road of transporting buses/vans/lorries across or near the GN Division
The table 2.1 explain the availability of transport facilities within each GN Division in Polonnaruwa district. The statistic
revealed that public transport bus start/destinations and railway stations are available in 59 and 12 GN Divisions
respectively. There are only two DS Divisions which are Lankapura and Thamankaduwa have Boat/Ferry facility.
Hingurakgoda DS Division has the highest number of GN Divisions with railway station and three-wheel park facility.
Thamankaduwa DS Division has the highest number of GN Divisions with public transport bus start/destination facility.
According to above details Elahera DS Division has the poor transportation facilities.
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Minimum Distance to Access Transport Facility (when the facility is not available
within Grama Niladhari Division)
Table 2.2 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions by minimum distance to access Public transport bus
start/destination and by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division
Minimum distance to access the facility
Total GN
Division More than Total No. of
(Facility not 2 km and less GN Divisions
District and DS Division available) 2 km or less than 5 km 5 km or more in DSD
Polonnaruwa District 235 43 47 145 294
Hingurakgoda 41 12 13 16 53
Medirigiriya 39 11 7 21 45
Lankapura 22 3 6 13 28
Welikanda 25 1 1 23 29
Dimbulagala 49 5 5 39 56
Thamankaduwa 40 9 12 19 55
Elahera 19 2 3 14 28
Table 2.2 presents the information on GN Divisions which do not have access to the Public transport bus start/end
destination within the division. The statistics show the number of GN Divisions by the minimum distance to nearest
location of that transport facility available. It is found that in 235 GN Divisions the facility is not available within the GN
Division. However, in Polonnaruwa district 145 GN Divisions show distance more than 5 km to the facility.
Table 2.3 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions by minimum distance to access Railway Station and by
Total GN More than Total No.

Division 2 km and of GN
(Facility not less than 5 5 km or Not Divisions in
District and DS Division available) 2 km or less km more Relevent DSD
Hingurakgoda 49 8 16 25 - 53
Medirigiriya 45 2 1 32 10 45
Lankapura 28 1 1 24 2 28
Welikanda 26 2 6 16 2 29
Dimbulagala 55 - 2 42 11 56
Elahera 28 - - 2 26 28
Many of the GN Divisions (282 out of 294) in Polonnaruwa district do not have any railway station within the GN
Division. For some GN Divisions railway facility is not relevant (this indicates people in these areas do not consider
railway as a regular transport mode due to unavailability of nearby facility). Among all the DS Divisions in the district,
Hingurakgoda DS Division has the largest number of GN Divisions which has railway station facility within GND.
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Table 2.4 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions by minimum distance to access Three-wheel park and by
Total GN
Division More than
(Facility not 2 km and less Total No. of
District and DS Division available) 2 km or less than 5 km 5 km or more GN Divisions
Elahera 19 4 7 8 28
Three-wheeler is a common taxi service in the country and there are allotted parking places for these, where people
can get the facility. Many of the GN Divisions (209 GNDs out of 294 GNDs) in Polonnaruwa district do not have Three-
wheel park facility within the GN Division. There are 70 GN Divisions reported the distance more than 5 km or more
to get the facility.
Table 2.5 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions by minimum distance to access Boat/Ferry jetty and by
Total GN More than

Division 2 km and Total No. of
(Facility not less than 5 5 km or Not GN
District and DS Division available) 2 km or less km more Relevant Divisions
Hingurakgoda 53 1 - 2 50 53
Lankapura 27 1 - 3 23 28
Welikanda 29 1 - 6 22 29
Dimbulagala 56 - 1 - 55 56
Elahera 28 - - 2 26 28
As the summery of the above table 2.5 this facility is not common in Polonnaruwa district. There are only 2 GN
Divisions which are available this facility. Those are Thamankaduwa and Lankapura.
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Table 2.6 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions by minimum distance to access Road of transporting
buses/vans/lorries across or near the GN Division and by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division
Total GN More than

Division 2 km and Total No. of
(Facility not less than 5 5 km or GN
District and DS Division available) 2 km or less km more Divisions
Hingurakgoda 3 2 - 1 53
Medirigiriya 2 - - 2 45
Lankapura 4 1 3 - 28
Dimbulagala 4 2 - 2 56
Elahera 1 - 1 - 28
The facility in Table 2.6 has widely distributed in Polonnaruwa district. There are only 30 GN Divisions out of total
294 GN Divisions which are not available Roads of transporting buses/vans/lorries across or near the GN Division.
Lankapura and Elahera DS Divisions can access this facility within at most 5 km area. As the summery of collected data,
Welikanda DS Division is lack of this facility.
2.2 Health
Availability of Health Facilities within Grama Niladhari (GN) Division
Table 2.7 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions where Health facilities are available within Grama
Number of GNDs with Health Facilities within GND

Government Government Maternity
Total No. of or Private or Private Clinic/Baby
District and DS Division GN Divisions Hospital Dispensary Clinic MOH’s Office
Elahera 28 4 7 10 1
The Table 2.7 show how the health facilities are distributed when the facility is available within GN Divisions. The
distribution of facilities differs across DS Divisions.
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Minimum Distance to access Health facility (when the facility is not available within
Grama Niladhari (GN) Division)
Table 2.8 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions by minimum distance to access Government or private
hospital and Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division

Total GN
Division More than
Lankapura 26 4 11 11 28
Elahera 24 3 4 17 28
Table 2.9 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions by minimum distance to access Government or Private
Dispensary and Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division

Total GN
Division More than
Elahera 21 2 3 16 28
Above Table 2.8 and Table 2.9 explain that availability of government or private hospital and dispensary facilities
in Polonnaruwa district. According to that Welikanda DS Division has the least hospital facility. However, every DS
Division in Polonnaruwa district have at least one government or private hospital facility within the DS Division.
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Table 2.10 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions by minimum distance to access Maternity Clinic/Baby
Clinic and Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division

Total GN
Division More than
Elahera 18 4 8 6 28
Table 2.11 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions by minimum distance to access Office of the MOH and

Total GN
Division More than
Welikanda 28 - 4 24 29
Elahera 27 - 4 23 28
According to the above Table 2.10 and Table 2.11, totally there are 8 GN Divisions which have access to MOH facility
within the GN Division. Every DS Division have at least one MOH office. The distribution of maternity clinic/baby clinic
in Polonnaruwa district is slightly better. Except 21 GN Divisions, others can be accessed maternity or baby clinic
facility within 5 km area.
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2.3 Education
Availability of Education Facilities within Grama Niladhari (GN) Division.
The education facilities cover the availability of kindergarten/pre-school/early childhood development centre,
government or private school that has classes for G.C.E. (O/L) or below and government or private school that has
classes for G.C.E. (A/L). Following figures show the distribution of number of GN Divisions in which these facilities are
available.
Government or Private school that has

classes for A/L
1. Hingurakgoda
2. Madirigiriya
3. Lankapura
4. Welikanda
5. Thamankaduwa
6. Dimbulagala
7. Elahera
Government or Private school that has Kindergarten / Pre School / Early

classes for O/L Childhood Development Center
Figure 2.1 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions where education facilities are available within Grama
As the graphical representation of above Figure 2.1, Thamankaduwa DS Division has the highest number of GN
Divisions which have above three types of education facilities. Totally in Polonnaruwa district, 62 and 241 numbers of
GN Divisions have educational facilities up to advanced level and ordinary level respectively. Most of GN Divisions
(263) out of 294 total divisions have Kindergarten / Pre School / Early childhood development centres facility.
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Minimum Distance to access Education Facility (when the facility is not available
within Grama Niladhari (GN) Division)
school that has classes for A/L and by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division

Total GN
Division More than
Elahera 23 3 4 16 28
Out of total GN Divisions (294) in Polonnaruwa District 90 GN Divisions do not have access to government or private
school that has classes for A/L within the distance of 5 km or less (Table 2.12). Further, majority of these GN Divisions
are reported from Dimbulagala, Hingurakgoda, Thamankaduwa and Elahera DS Divisions.
school that has classes for O/L or below and by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division

Total GN
Division More than
Elahera 6 1 1 4 28
Table 2.13 gives the statistics on the minimum distance to access government or private school that has classes for
O/L and below. In Polonnaruwa district 102 GN Divisions out of 294 report no government or private school that
has classes for O/L and below within GN Division. However, only 25 GN Divisions report 5 km or more to access this
education facility.
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Table 2.14 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions by minimum distance to access Kindergarten/Pre-
school/Early Childhood Development Centre and by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division

Total GN
Division More than
Medirigiriya 4 - 3 1 45
Lankapura 4 3 1 - 28
Welikanda 1 1 - - 29
Dimbulagala 1 1 - - 56
Thamankaduwa 6 5 - 1 55
Elahera 1 - - 1 28
Minimum distance to access to the education facility Kindergarten/Pre-school/Early Childhood Development Centre
is given in above Table 2.14. This facility has widely distributed in district. Only 30 GN Divisions are not available this
early childhood education facility within the GN Division.
2.4 Communication
Availability of Communication Facilities within Grama Niladhari (GN) Division
The communication facilities considered at the data collection are Government Post Office/Sub Post Office or Agency
Post Office, Vidhatha Centre/Nena Sala Centre and Communication Centres.
Table 2.15 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions where communication facilities are available within
Grama Niladhari Division and by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division
Number of GN Divisions having the Communication Facility

Government Post
Office/Sub Post
Total No. of GN Office or Agency Vidhatha Centre/ Communication
District and DS Division Divisions Post Office Nena Sala Centre Centres
Polonnaruwa District 294 104 8 102
Hingurakgoda 53 22 1 22
Medirigiriya 45 16 1 17
Lankapura 28 10 1 11
Welikanda 29 8 - 5
Dimbulagala 56 20 2 22
Thamankaduwa 55 16 2 19
Elahera 28 12 1 6
Table 2.15 describe available communication facilities in Polonnaruwa district. Higurakgoda DS Division has the
highest number of GN Divisions which have post office and communication centres. There are no any Vidhatha/
Nenasala centre has established in Welikanda DS Division.
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Minimum Distance to access Communication Facilities (when the facility is not

available within Grama Niladhari (GN) Division)
Figure 2.2 Number of Grama Niladhari Divisions by minimum distance to access post office/Sub Post Office or
Agency Post Office and by DS Division
According to the above Figure 2.2, there are 190 GN Divisions which are not available post office/sub post office or
agency post office within GN Division. Out of all 294 GN Divisions, 92.85% of GNs can fulfil their postal requirements
within 5 km area.
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Table 2.16 Number of Grama Niladari (GN) Divisions by minimum distance to access Vidatha/Nenasala
Centres and by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division

Total GN
Division More than
Welikanda 29 - - 29 29
Elahera 27 - 3 24 28
Vidhatha and Nenasala are Government introduced vocational facilities which provide support to public by various
training programs specially on technical and IT sectors. Table 2.16 shows the distribution of Vidhatha/Nenasala centers
by DS Divisions in Polonnaruwa district. Out of 294 GNs there are 8 GN Divisions which have Vidhatha/Nenasala
centers. Dimbulagala and Thamankaduwa DS Division have highest number of centres which is 2. This facility does not
report from Welikanda DS Division.
Table 2.17 Number of Grama Niladari (GN) Divisions by minimum distance to access Communication Centres
and by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division

Total GN
Division More than
Elahera 22 2 7 13 28
Table 2.17 explains the distance to access communication centres. As the above summery 192 GNDs out of 294 GN
Divisions do not have access to communication centres within the GN Divisions. And 68 GN Divisions need to go more
than 5 km to access the communication centres.
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2.5 Facilities provided by local government

Availability of Facilities provided by Local Government within a Grama Niladhari
(GN) Division
Data was collected on some selected Local Government facilities such as availability of public playground, children
park, Praja Shalawa, Public library/ reading room, cemetery and Market place/ fair/ public store. Following Table
2.18 gives the distribution of the number of GN Divisions when facility is available within the GN Division for each
DS Division. All facilities are available in all DS Divisions except the Lankapura DS Division. Children Park facility is
not available there. According to the overall summarization Lankapura DS Division has the poorest facilities which are
provided by Local government.
Table 2.18 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions where local government facilities are available within
Grama Niladhari (GN) Division and by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division
Number of GN Divisions having the local government facilities
Public Market
Total No. Public Library/ place/
of GN play Children Praja Reading Fair/Public
District and DS Division Divisions ground park Shalawa Room Cemetery Store
Polonnaruwa District 294 122 30 254 30 206 136
Hingurakgoda 53 11 8 49 4 26 23
Medirigiriya 45 12 1 42 6 32 21
Lankapura 28 6 - 20 4 17 12
Welikanda 29 12 7 18 5 26 8
Dimbulagala 56 44 2 49 2 51 35
Thamankaduwa 55 23 10 48 6 27 24
Elahera 28 14 2 28 3 27 13
Minimum Distance to access facilities provided by Local Government (When the

facility is not available within Grama Niladhari (GN) Division)
Table 2.19 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions by minimum distance to access public playground and
by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division
Number of GN Divisions by minimum distance to

Total GN
access public playground
Divisions
(public
playground More than 2
not available km and less Total No. of
District and DS Division within) 2 km or less than 5 km 5 km or more GN Divisions
Elahera 14 2 3 9 28
In 172 GN Divisions public playground is not available within the GN Division. 96 GN Divisions have to go 5 km or
more to get this facility. The distribution differs across DS Divisions and gives in above Table 2.19.
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Table 2.20 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions by minimum distance to access children park and by

Total GN
access children park
Divisions
(children park More than
not available 2 km and less Total No. of
Lankapura 28 1 - 27 28
Elahera 26 1 3 22 28
Out of 294 GN Divisions 264 GNs do not have Children Park within the division. However, only 95 GN Divisions have
access the facility within less than 5 km. This facility is available mostly in Thamankaduwa DS Division. (Table 2.20).
Table 2.21 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions by minimum distance to access Praja Shaalawa and by

Total GN
access Praja Shaalawa
Divisions (Praja
Shaalawa More than
Hingurakgoda 4 3 1 - 53
Elahera - - - - 28
Table 2.21 shows that all GN Divisions in Elahera DS Division have this facility within GN Division. Among all GN
Divisions in district only 40 GNs do not have Praja shalawa facility within the division. Totally more than 95% of GNs
have this facility within 5 km area.
Table 2.22 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions by minimum distance to access Public Library/Reading
Room and by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division
Total GN Number of GN Divisions by minimum distance to

Divisions access Public Library/Reading Room
(Public Library/
Reading Room More than
Elahera 25 - 6 19 28
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As the above details in Table 2.22 there are only 30 GNDs which have public library/reading room facility within the
division. However 51.4% of GNDs do not access this facility within 5 km area.
Table 2.23 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions by minimum distance to access Cemetery and by

Total GN
access cemetery
Divisions
(Cemetery More than
Welikanda 3 2 1 - 29
Elahera 1 1 - - 28
Among all 294 GN Divisions, only 88 divisions do not have cemetery within the GN Division. Totally 85% of GNs can
access the facility of cemetery within 2 km area around their own GN Division. (Table 2.23).
Table 2.24 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions by minimum distance to Marketplace/Fair/Public Store
and by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division
Total GN Number of GN Divisions by minimum distance to

Divisions access to Market place/fair/public store
(to Market
place/Fair/
Public Store More than
Facility, District and DS Division within) 2 km or less than 5 km 5 km or more GN Divisions
Elahera 15 5 3 7 28
According to the above Table 2.24 most of GN Divisions (except 54 out of 294) can access Market place/fair/public
store within 5 km around the GN Divisions
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2.6 Other Facilities

Availability of other facilities such as branch of government or private banks, Filling
stations, Police stations, DS office and Local government offices within a Grama
Niladhari (GN) Division
Table 2.25 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions where other facilities are available within Grama
Niladhari (GN) Division by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division
Number of GN Division by type of Facility
Branch of
Total No. government Local
of GN or private Filling Police government
District and DS Division Divisions bank station station DS office office
Hingurakgoda 53 11 6 3 1 2
Lankapura 28 9 3 1 1 1
Welikanda 29 3 2 2 1 2
Dimbulagala 56 8 4 2 1 2
Elahera 28 4 4 2 1 1
As given in the Table 2.25 out of 294 total GN Divisions 58 GN Divisions have brance of government or private bank
within the GN Division. 27 GN Divisions reported having filling station within and 14 GN Divisions have police stations
within.
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Minimum Distance to access branch of government or private banks, Filling sta-

tions, Police stations, DS offices and Local government office (When the facility is
not available within Grama Niladhari (GN) Division)
Figure 2.3 Number of Grama Niladhari Divisions by minimum distance to access other facility and by
The Figure 2.3 gives the distribution of GN Divisions by the minimum distance to access other facilities when the
facility is not available within the GN Division. Separate figures are drawn for each facility by minimum distance at
access and DS Division.
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Availability of solid waste disposal system provided by local authorities in Grama

Niladhari Division
Table 2.26 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions in which a solid waste disposal system is available by
Availability Solid Waste Disposal System

District and DS Division Total GN Divisions Available Not available
Polonnaruwa District 294 73 221
Hingurakgoda 53 15 38
Medirigiriya 45 5 40
Lankapura 28 9 19
Welikanda 29 3 26
Dimbulagala 56 17 39
Thamankaduwa 55 20 35
Elahera 28 4 24
Solid waste disposal system is provided by the local authorities in general. However, this facility is not available for all
administrative divisions. According to the table 2.26, this facility is available only in 73 GN Divisions. A considerable
number of GN Divisions in the district reported not having the facility.
Availability of pipe borne water from national water supply or community base
organization in Grama Niladhari Divisions
Table 2.27 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions in which a pipe borne water is available by Divisional
Secretariat (DS) Division
Pipe borne water from National water

supply or community base organization
Lankapura 28 11 17
Welikanda 29 22 7
Dimbulagala 56 51 5
Elahera 28 21 7
Pipe borne water is mainly supplied by the National Water Supply and Drainage Board or Community-based
organizations. In Polonnaruwa 232 GN Divisions reported having Pipe borne water from National water supply or
community base organization. It covers nearly 79% of GN Divisions all over the Polonnaruwa district (Table 2.27).
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Availability of Regional hydroelectric power stations/other small power plants

Table 2.28 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions in which a regional hydroelectric power stations/other
small power plants are available by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division
Regional hydroelectric power stations/

other small power plants
Lankapura 28 - 28
Welikanda 29 2 27
Dimbulagala 56 5 51
Thamankaduwa 55 - 55
Elahera 28 - 28
As the above table shown, this facility is available only 10 out of 294 GN Divisions. Those 10 GNDs are reported from
Hingurakgoda, Medirigiriya, Welikanda and Dimbulagala DS Divisions. Dimbulagala DS Division has 5 GN Divisions
which are available this facility. The amount of available Regional hydroelectric power stations/other small power
plants in Polonnaruwa district is less than 4%.
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3. Threats spread over the Grama Niladhari (GN) Division
3.1 Prevalence of Drugs as a menace in the Grama Niladhari (GN) Division

Table 3.1 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions where prevalence drugs as a menace by Divisional
Prevalence of Drugs as a menace

(Number of GN Division)
District and DS Division Total GN Divisions Yes No
Lankapura 28 6 22
Welikanda 29 13 16
Elahera 28 16 12
Table 3.1 shows the prevalence of drugs as a menace in the GN Divisions. Accordingly, 124 GN Divisions reported
prevailing drugs as a menace in the division. Dimbulagala has the highest number of GN Divisions and Lankapura has
the least number of GN Divisions reported having this condition.
3.2 Prevalence of Alcohol as a menace in the Grama Niladhari (GN) Division

Table 3.2 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions where prevalence alcohol as a menace by Divisional
Prevalence of Alcohol as a menace

(Number of GN Division)
District and DS Division Total GN Divisions Yes No
Lankapura 28 12 16
Welikanda 29 11 18
Elahera 28 20 8
According to the explanation of prevalence of Alcohol as a menace in Table 3.2, out of total 294 GN Divisions
in Polonnaruwa district 156 GN Divisions are showing as prevalence of alcohol as a menace. It is nearly 53% as a
percentage of total GNDs. Dimbulagala and Elahera (71.4%) DS Divisions have the highest risk and the Thamankaduwa
(36.4%) DS Division has the lowest risk of this menace.
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4. Availability of Traditional Handicraft Industries

Table 4.1 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions with available Traditional Handicraft Industries by
Number of GN Divisions by type of traditional handicraft industries

District and DS Division 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Polonnaruwa District 25 9 14 7 - 2 1 93 37 - 6 13 152
Hingurakgoda 3 - 1 1 - - - 10 4 - - 3 34
Medirigiriya 2 1 6 - - - - 19 5 - 1 2 20
Lankapura 6 1 - - - 1 - 8 5 - - 1 16
Welikanda 1 - - - - - - 11 6 - - 4 13
Dimbulagala 8 3 5 3 - - - 24 7 - 2 - 20
Thamankaduwa 3 4 2 2 - 1 1 14 5 - 2 2 32
Elahera 2 - - 1 - - - 7 5 - 1 1 17
Type of traditional handicraft industries

1. Clay industry 8. Wood industries
2. Cane and Bamboo based Industry 9. Textile and textile handicrafts industries
3. Metal handicrafts 10. The musical instruments industries
4. Jewellery making industries 11. Coconut/kittul/sesame/palmyra based industries
5. Masks and puppet industries 12. Other
6. Dumbara patterns and fibber green leaf creations 13. No traditional industries
7. Lace industries
Table 4.1 shows the availability of traditional handicraft industries in Polonnaruwa district. According to that there
are 152 GN Divisions which are not having any traditional handicraft industry. The most popular industry is the
wood industry. It has widely distributed in all DS Divisions. Not only that but also Textile industry and clay industry
distributed in all DS Divisions. There are no any masks and puppet industry, musical instruments industry has identified
in Polonnaruwa district. Only Thamankaduwa DS Division has the Lace industry.
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5. Disasters faced in last 10 years

Table 5.1 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions by type of the disaster and by Divisional Secretariat (DS)
Division
Type of the Disaster

District and DS Division 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Polonnaruwa District 124 - 2 153 73 182 2 195 136 6 58 10 25 6 2 16
Hingurakgoda 18 - - 16 4 22 - 21 15 1 13 9 4 2 - 10
Medirigiriya 18 - - 19 10 35 - 24 19 1 6 - 5 - - 3
Lankapura 19 - - 17 1 26 - 18 11 - 8 - 2 - - -
Welikanda 14 - - 21 14 26 1 26 19 1 11 - 2 - - -
Dimbulagala 22 - 1 34 21 43 - 55 50 3 12 1 12 2 - -
Thamankaduwa 20 - - 37 12 17 - 25 9 - 4 - - 2 2 3
Elahera 13 - 1 9 11 13 1 26 13 - 4 - - - - -
Type of the Disaster

1. Floods 9. Damage caused by other wild animals
2. Landslides 10. Fires
3. Candle crashes 11. Canal over flooding
4. Storms/hurricanes 12. Sinking/building cracks/earthquakes
5. Lightning struck 13. Drying of water springs
6. Drought 14. Noise pollution/Air pollution/Water pollution due to
industrial/project implementation
7. Rolling stones 15. Other
8. Damage caused by wild elephants 16. No Disaster
Table 5.1 explains a summery about the disasters which have faced by GN Divisions in Polonnaruwa district in last 10
years. All types of mentioned disasters except landslides have occurred in at least one DS Division in last 10 years.
Floods, Storms/Hurricanes, Droughts, damage caused by wild elephants and damage caused by wild animals have
occurred in highest number of GN Divisions. The majority of disasters takes the damage caused by wild elephants
secondly droughts. Among all the DS Divisions Dimbulagala has faced most of disasters with more frequency. It is
mostly affected by wild elephants and droughts.
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6. Information of economic activities

6.1 Major economic activities involved
Table 6.1 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions by type of economic activities involved and by Divisional
Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions by type of economic activity

Non-agricultural
District and DS Division Crop production Livestock Fisheries industry economic activity
Polonnaruwa District 237 100 45 109
Hingurakgoda 36 8 8 20
Medirigiriya 37 17 9 12
Lankapura 26 15 2 24
Welikanda 24 13 7 4
Dimbulagala 52 27 11 20
Thamankaduwa 34 17 8 27
Elahera 28 3 - 2
The Table 6.1gives the aggregated results of the reported major economic activities involved in GN Division, one GN
Division may engage in few economic activites. Most of GN Divisions (237) have involved to crop productions. Secondly
100 GN Divisions have involved to livestock and 45 GN Divisions have fisheries industry. Fisheries industry activities are
not reported from Elahera DS Division. Dimbulagala DS Division has the highest number of GNs which have involved
fisheries activities. Livestock activities are widely distributed in Dimbulagala, Medirigiriya and Thamankaduwa.
6.2 Information of major Irrigation Schemes used for Paddy and Other Crops
Table 6.2 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions by type of Irrigation scheme using for paddy cultivation
and other crops by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division
Number of Grama Niladhari Divisions by type of Irrigation scheme

using for paddy cultivation and other crops
Total GN Not
District and DS Division Divisions Major Minor Rain fed Other relevant
Hingurakgoda 53 38 9 3 1 2
Medirigiriya 45 30 10 5 - -
Lankapura 28 18 9 1 - -
Welikanda 29 28 1 - - -
Dimbulagala 56 55 1 - - -
Thamankaduwa 55 18 26 1 - 10
Elahera 28 23 4 1 - -
According to the table 6.2, Polonnaruwa district uses major irrigation schemes for their agricultural activities. It is
nearly 71.43%. Only 11 GN Divisions in Polonnaruwa district uses Rain fed irrigation schemes but Welikanda and
Dimbulagala DS Divisions do not use the rain fed irrigation schemes to do their cultivation activities. All DS Divisions
use mainly major methods for watering their crops.
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6.3 Information of abandoned government reservations can be cultivated.

Table 6.3 Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions having government reservations which can be cultivated
by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division
Number of Grama Niladhari (GN) Divisions having government

reservations which can be cultivated by available land area (Acres)
Above 5 Above 10 Above 15
Total GN No such and 10 or and 15 or and 20 or
District and DS Division Divisions land 5 or less less less less Above 20
Polonnaruwa District 294 182 33 30 14 7 28
Hingurakgoda 53 42 3 4 1 1 2
Medirigiriya 45 23 11 6 2 1 2
Lankapura 28 25 1 - - 1 1
Welikanda 29 11 5 3 4 - 6
Dimbulagala 56 20 4 12 6 3 11
Thamankaduwa 55 46 5 2 - - 2
Elahera 28 15 4 3 1 1 4
Table 6.3 shows the lands which can be cultivated in Polonnaruwa district. Out of 294 GN Divisions 182 GNDs do not
have government reservations which can be cultivated in Polonnaruwa district. Eleven GN Divisions from Dimbulagala
reported GN Divisions where there are above 20 acres abandoned government reservations.
6.4 Availability of Supportive Centres/Institutions for Agricultural, Live-

stock & Fisheries activities
Supportive centres/institutes are identified as the places which support agricultural and fisheries farmers to buy inputs
and sell their outputs.
Availability of Agriculture related supportive centres/Institutions within Grama Niladhari

(GN) Divisions
Table 6.4 Number of GN Divisions in which supportive centres/Institutions for Agriculture are available by
Number of GN Divisions in which supportive centres/Institutions for Agriculture are

available by type of institute
District and DS Division 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Polonnaruwa District 71 84 148 130 107 40 52 58 108
Hingurakgoda 8 10 18 14 24 2 6 8 9
Medirigiriya 8 8 23 13 19 11 9 8 22
Lankapura 6 14 15 14 13 2 6 6 16
Welikanda 6 8 16 19 4 3 4 5 12
Dimbulagala 21 23 38 37 20 12 12 16 25
Thamankaduwa 15 14 16 16 21 4 11 5 13
Elahera 7 7 22 17 6 6 4 10 11
Type of Agricultural centres/Institutions

1. Market for selling agro products 6. Purchasing centers of agro products
2. Seed paddy sales center 7. Agricultural credit facility institute
3. Paddy purchasing center 8. Agro equipment selling center
4. Paddy storages 9. Fertilizer sales centers
5. Nursery
One GN Division may have more than one type of supporting institute, when the Polonnaruwa district is considered
highest number of GN Divisions reported having Paddy purchasing centres, Paddy storages and fertilizer sales centres.
(Table 6.4).
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Number of Agriculture related supportive centres/Institutions available

by DS Divisions
Table 6.5 Number of Agriculture related centres/institutions by type of centre/institution and by Divisional
Secretariat Division (DS)
Type of Agricultural centres/Institutions (number of centres/Institutions)

District and DS Division 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Polonnaruwa District 181 142 313 250 254 68 113 106 172
Hingurakgoda 23 14 35 31 98 3 13 10 12
Medirigiriya 22 15 40 29 39 16 25 18 33
Lankapura 13 21 25 25 24 3 10 8 21
Welikanda 22 19 44 39 13 5 16 18 26
Dimbulagala 47 37 81 67 30 19 24 27 44
Thamankaduwa 42 21 37 32 42 11 15 6 19
Elahera 12 15 51 27 8 11 10 19 17
Type of Agricultural centres/Institutions

1. Market for selling agro products 6. Purchasing centers of Agro products
2. Seed Paddy Sales center 7. Agricultural Credit Facility Institute
3. Paddy purchasing center 8. Agro Equipment selling center
4. Paddy storages 9. Fertilizer Sales centers
5. Nursery
As the summery in the table 6.5 the largest number of centres / institutions in Polonnaruwa district are related to paddy
purchasing activities. And there are comparatively high number of centres/ institutions which are related to paddy
storage and nursery.
Availability of Livestock & fisheries supportive centres/institutions within Grama

Niladhari (GN) Divisions
Table 6.6 Number of GN Divisions in which supportive centres/Institutions for Livestock & fisheries are
available by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division
Number of GN Divisions in which supportive centres/Institutions for Livestock &

fisheries are available by type of institute
District and DS Division 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Polonnaruwa District 126 11 17 29 65 25 8 10 57 5
Hingurakgoda 11 2 2 6 10 5 1 3 5 -
Medirigiriya 22 2 2 3 8 1 1 - 4 1
Lankapura 11 3 1 2 10 2 - 1 7 -
Welikanda 21 2 1 3 2 2 1 - 5 2
Dimbulagala 40 1 8 9 16 10 3 3 13 -
Thamankaduwa 17 1 2 5 15 4 2 2 17 1
Elahera 4 - 1 1 4 1 - 1 6 1
Livestock & fisheries centers

1. Milk Collection center 6. Dry fish markets
2. Milk freezing center 7. Dry fish production centers
3. Veterinary center 8. Slaughter houses
4. Fish landing/collecting center 9. Meat markets
5. Fish markets 10. Other
Table 6.6 explains the Livestock & fisheries centres/Institutions by number of GN Divisions and by number of centres.
Out of total GN Divisions there are 126 GNs which have milk collection centres. 65 GN Divisions have fish markets
and 57 GNs have meat markets. There are only 8 dry fish production centres in Polonnauwa district and out of those
3 centres are located in Dimbulagala DS Division. Most of the Livestocks and fisheries centres are widely distributed
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in Dimbulagala DS Division.
Number of Livestock & fisheries centres by DS Division

Table 6.7 Number of Livestock & fisheries centres/institutions by type of centre/Institution and by Divisional
Secretariat Division (DS)
Number of Livestock & fisheries centres/institutions by type of centre/Institution

Hingurakgoda 11 2 2 7 13 24 5 5 8 -
Medirigiriya 33 2 2 4 15 2 3 - 9 5
Lankapura 13 3 1 2 12 2 - 1 12 -
Welikanda 30 2 1 3 4 13 3 - 20 2
Dimbulagala 61 1 8 11 25 18 5 3 35 -
Thamankaduwa 18 1 3 5 28 9 9 2 44 2
Elahera 5 - 1 1 9 1 - 1 10 1
Livestock & fisheries centers

1. Milk Collection center 6. Dry fish markets
2. Milk freezing center 7. Dry fish production centers
3. Veterinary center 8. Slaughter houses
4. Fish landing/collecting center 9. Meat markets
5. Fish markets 10. Other
Table 6.7 shows the number of Livestock and fisheries centres in Polonnaruwa district. There are 171 milk collection
centres, 138 meat markets and 106 fish markets in district. Elahera DS Division has the lowest number of milk collection
centres. But among all DS Divisions Thamankaduwa has the highest number of meat market, fish markets and dry fish
production centres.
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7. Information of the places which provides basic facility

Table 7.1 Number of places/institutes which provides basic facilities by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division
Number of places/institutions by the type of Place/Institute

District and DS Division 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Polonnaruwa District 394 16 8 249 2 - 160 139 21 3 3 3 131
Hingurakgoda 56 3 1 34 - - 29 23 3 1 2 - 19
Medirigiriya 71 1 2 33 - - 11 27 2 - - 1 22
Lankapura 29 2 - 21 - - 20 12 2 - - - 13
Welikanda 45 1 1 40 - - 11 15 3 - - - 10
Dimbulagala 76 2 - 63 - - 25 28 4 - - - 21
Thamankaduwa 65 6 3 32 2 - 49 23 3 2 1 2 37
Elahera 52 1 1 26 - - 15 11 4 - - - 9
The Place/Institute which provides basic facility

1. Pre-school/Early Childhood Development Centre 8. Maternity Clinic/Baby Clinic
2. Day Care Centres (Children) 9. Government hospital
3. A school or institute for children with special needs 10. Private hospital
4. Government/Semi-Government school 11. Government or private children homes
5. Private school 12. Government or private elders’ homes
6. International School 13. Branches of government or private banks
7. Government or Private Dispensary (Western/Ayurvedic)
Number of places/institutions by the type of Place/Institute

District and DS Division 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
Polonnaruwa District 324 34 64 18 28 297 8 30 8 14 - 3
Hingurakgoda 54 - 1 4 4 48 - 1 2 1 - -
Medirigiriya 44 - 5 2 6 43 - 2 - 3 - -
Lankapura 22 - 19 1 - 19 - 10 - 2 - -
Welikanda 42 19 16 - 2 36 7 5 - - - -
Dimbulagala 78 14 1 3 6 69 1 - 3 3 - -
Thamankaduwa 43 1 22 7 5 41 - 12 3 3 - 3
Elahera 41 - - 1 5 41 - - - 2 - -
The Place/Institute which provides basic facility

14. Buddhist Temples 18. Other- religious places 22. Dhamma School (Catholic/Christian)
15. Hindu Temples 19. Dhamma School (Buddhist) 23. Piriven
16. Mosque 20. Dhamma School (Hindu) 24. Devsath hal
17. Catholic/Christian Churches 21. Dhamma School (Islam) 25. Madrasa schools
The summery of above Table 7.1 explains Number of Places/Institutes which provides basic facilities by Divisional
Secretariat (DS) Division. Among all the places which have mentioned in the table, there are 249 government schools
and 2 private schools. Private schools are located only in Thamankaduwa DS Division. There are no any international
schools in Polonnaruwa district. Eight schools have established for special needs students in district.
When it comes to religious places, there are 324 Buddhist temples, 34 Hindu temples, 64 Mosque and 18 churches in
Polonnaruwa district. Every DS Division has more than 20 Buddhist temples. Dimbulagala DS has the highest number
of Buddhist temples which is 78 and Lankapura DS has the least number of temples which is 22. Hindu temples are
located only in the Welikanda, Dimbulagala and Thamankaduwa DS Divisions. There are at least 1 mosque in every
DS Division except Elahera DS Division. Most of mosques are located in Lankapura and Thamankaduwa DS Divisions.
Among these religious places, Catholic churches have the lowest frequency in Polonnaruwa district. But every DS
Division except Welikanda DSD have at least on church.
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8. Information of Government beneficiaries

Table 8.1 The Number of Government beneficiaries by type of Benefit and Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division
Number of government beneficiaries by type of benefit

Hingurakgoda 5357 189 884 687 295 468 1 4 128 72
Medirigiriya 6531 273 745 466 323 1280 8 15 148 71
Lankapura 4090 132 827 540 325 340 5 8 71 124
Welikanda 4935 118 461 819 255 404 2 9 58 22
Dimbulagala 6595 170 897 1016 717 1048 10 34 111 151
Thamankaduwa 5752 175 1125 446 334 366 14 22 122 54
Elahera 3207 132 622 773 234 754 6 8 87 126
Government benefit
1. Samurdhi 6. Kidney aids
2. Disability aids 7. Tuberculosis aid
3. Elderly allowances 8. Thalassemia aid
4. Public assistance (Pin padi) 9. Cancer aid
5. Farmers pension 10. Other aid
According to the Table 8.1 persons who receive the above mentioned beneficiaries are higher in Dimbulagala DS
Division. In Polonnaruwa district there are 36,467 number of persons who receive Samurdhi, 4,747 persons who
receive Elderly allowances. Medirigiriya DS Division has the highest number of Kidney aids receivable persons. The
persons who receive the Tuberculosis aid are relatively lower than the all other types of aids.
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Grama Niladhari Divisions Statistics - 2020

Department of Census & Statistics

Department of Census & Statistics

 Solid Waste Disposal System provided by local government is available in 73 (24.8%) of

P.M.P. Anura Kumara

Under the supervision of Mr.D.R.M.C.M. Rathnayake, Statistician/Head of Statistics Branch in Polonnaruwa

2. Availability of Basic facilities................................................................................................................3

2.5 Facilities provided by local government.................................................................................14

2.6 Other Facilities........................................................................................................................17

3. Threats spread over the Grama Niladhari (GN) Division...................................................................21

3.1 Prevalence of Drugs as a menace in the Grama Niladhari (GN) Division................................21

3.2 Prevalence of Alcohol as a menace in the Grama Niladhari (GN) Division.............................21

4. Availability of Traditional Handicraft Industries.................................................................................22

5. Disasters faced in last 10 years ........................................................................................................23

6. Information of economic activities....................................................................................................24

6.1 Major economic activities involved.........................................................................................24

6.3 Information of abandoned government reservations can be cultivated.................................25

6.4 Availability of Supportive Centres/Institutions for Agricultural, Livestock &

7. Information of the places which provides basic facility.....................................................................28

8. Information of Government beneficiaries.........................................................................................29

Table 1.4 Number of pensioners by Divisional Secretariat (DS) Division......................................................2

Table 6.5 Number of Agriculture related centres/institutions by type of centre/institution and by

1.1 Background information of the Grama Niladhari and Grama Niladhari

District and DS Division No. of GN Divisions

Polonnaruwa District 294

The Polonnaruwa district has 07 Divisional Secretariate

As depicted in Figure 1.1, the district’s majority are female

The total number of families registerd in election

2. Availability of Basic facilities

5. Facilities provided by Local government

Number of GN Divisions with Transport facility available within the division

Minimum distance to access the facility

Minimum distance to access the facility

Total GN More than Total No.

Minimum distance to access the facility

Minimum distance to access the facility

Total GN More than

Minimum distance to access the facility

Total GN More than

Number of GNDs with Health Facilities within GND

Minimum distance to access the facility

Minimum distance to access the facility

Minimum distance to access the facility

Minimum distance to access the facility

Government or Private school that has

Government or Private school that has Kindergarten / Pre School / Early

Minimum distance to access the facility

Minimum distance to access the facility

Minimum distance to access the facility

Number of GN Divisions having the Communication Facility

Minimum Distance to access Communication Facilities (when the facility is not

Minimum distance to access the facility

Minimum distance to access the facility

2.5 Facilities provided by local government

Number of GN Divisions having the local government facilities

Minimum Distance to access facilities provided by Local Government (When the

Number of GN Divisions by minimum distance to

Number of GN Divisions by minimum distance to

Number of GN Divisions by minimum distance to

Total GN Number of GN Divisions by minimum distance to

Number of GN Divisions by minimum distance to

Total GN Number of GN Divisions by minimum distance to

2.6 Other Facilities

Number of GN Division by type of Facility

Solid Waste Disposal System provided by local government is available in 73 (24.8%) of