Record groups of Department of Nationa Archives

Ministry of Home Affairs

Identity area

Type of entity

Corporate body

Authorized form of name

Ministry of Home Affairs

Parallel form(s) of name

Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

Other form(s) of name

Identifiers for corporate bodies

Description area

Dates of existence

1935-1985

History

The Ministry of Home Affairs was reconstituted in 1980. It was responsible for the District Administration and the Administration of the Registrar General’s Department. The arears such as Police, Prisons, Excise, Rural Development, Kachcheri Administration were absorbed into other Ministries, such as Local Government, Public Administration, and Defence.
A Training and Development Unit of the Public Administration was established in early 1981. Action oriented training programme was initiated in 1983 in collaboration with the UNISEF.
The Ministry of Home Affairs was responsible for the activities:- VIZ, Coordination of activities and execution of Development Programmers for other Ministries, and Department at District Level. Registration of births, deaths, marriages, deeds, and preservation of such records, Administration of Enactments regarding Mosques, and Muslim Charitable Trusts. Another function of this Ministry is to direct, control and co-ordinate the Programmers of work of the Government Agencies (Kachcheries), Department. of Registrar General and Department, of mosques, and Muslim Charitable Trusts.

Places

Legal status

Functions, occupations and activities

Mandates/sources of authority

Internal structures/genealogy

General context

Relationships area

Control area

Description identifier

LK-NA/82

Institution identifier

LK-NA

Rules and/or conventions used

ISAAR

Status

Final

Level of detail

Dates of creation, revision and deletion

Language(s)

  • English
  • සිංහල
  • Tamil

Script(s)

  • Latin

Sources

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