Mr. Wimal Gunerathne
   (Additional Provincial Director of Education)

   E-mail - apd.eduadmin@edudept.wp.gov.lk
   Telephone (Office) - 011-2682262   Fax - 011-2693894
   Telephone (Mobile) - 077-2010052

Staff Officers

   Mr. W.K.N. Wejethunga
   (Deputy Director of Education)

   E-mail - wijethungaa@yahoo.com
                eduadmin@edudept.wp.gov.lk
   Telephone (Office) - 011-2693893   Fax - 011-2693894
   Telephone (Mobile) - 071-2340186

Duties of Education Administration Branch

• Basic investigation on receiving complaints.
• Land acquisition and disown related to school lands.
• Assuring activities to secure the school lands. (Surveying procedures)
• Approving the estimates such as school development society facilities fees and service fees of National Schools in Western Province.
• Other various activities and projects.
• Giving recommendations to the Ministry of Education regarding the all private schools teachers in Western Province for their institutional purposes.
• Giving recommendations to the Ministry of Education to do the institutional procedures of piriven teachers in all 134 piriven in Western Province.
• Organizing year end assesments.
• Grade 5 scholarship activities.
• Activities related to "Prgnajanani scholarships".
• Activities of donated scholarships given by presidential funds.
• Divisional collection centre activities.
• Income collection of canteens.
• Giving recommendations to overseas leave of school students (National Schools) approving overseas leave for provincial Schools.
• Institutional activities of special schools.
• Giving approvals to the educational trips and field trips of National Schools in Western Province.
• Giving approvals to provide Western Province National Schools main hall (auditoriums) and playgrounds for external institutions.