Creation of new administrative district for tamil speaking people in Ampra : Acritical analsis

Administrative decentralization is a strategy for addressing a number of critical governmental needs. Foremost among these are strengthening governance, increasing transparency and accountability, and more effective and efficient production and delivery of public goods and services. Administrative decentralization seeks to redistribute authority, responsibility and financial resources for providing public services among different levels of government This is a research paper based on the study carried out under the objective of looking at the context and considering the possibilities of creating a new administrative district in the coastal areas of the Amparai district, covering Sammmanthurai, Kalmunai, and Pottuvil electorates as administrative benefits for Tamil speaking people. This demand for creating a separate coastal district has emerged among the Tamil speaking people ever since the creation o f Amparai district in 1961, by separating the southern part o f the Batticaloa distric

A database system for promotional literature for publishers

The aim of this thesis is to design a database system which could easily be used by a publishing company to store data concerning the products it publishes and to enable such data to be used in the regular processes of the production of lists of books and periodicals of certain promotional requirements. In our approach we have used a relational model which is based on the mathematical theory of relations. This has certain advantages over systems designed using tree or plex structures for as the database grows it will avoid causing upheaval with the logical representation of data and application programs and provides a basis for a high level retrieval language. The query language is designed to answer quickly all enquiries to the database and is based on principles and techniques developed from menu construction. The requirements of the promotional information produced by a typical publishing house are analysed and a model set up which tests the theories we have developed. In addition, the security aspect of the database has been studied and checks incorporated into the systems to ensure the authority of the personnel using the system and to provide a permanent record of all legal and illegal entries for management information

Introducing new public management techniques in public sectors of Sri Lanka: problems and challenges a case of Ampara district - Navithanveli divisional secretariat

In the last quarter century there has been a significant shift within the field of Public Administration. Traditional values and norms have been undermined in a number of ways. One aspect of this trend has been the emergence of a concept which has come to be known as the New Public Management (NPM). At the most basic level this concept promotes the public sector use of private sector management techniques. Due to a number of pressures, NPM has spread across the. world influencing a wide range of states. However, there are reservations over the general applicability of NPM, especially in the developing world. This paper outlines the rise of NPM in the context of Sri Lanka. And further addresses the issues in introducing NPM techniques in Divisional Secretariats of Sri Lanka, with reference to Navithanveli Divisional Secretariat which has established in the war-torn area of Ampara district This study is a critical one based on interpretative analysis which has used quantitative and qualitative data. The stated purpose is examined by studying both primary and secondary materials. The primary data has been collected through key informants interviews and focus group discussion. Four persons have been interviewed as key informants and five focus groups have been discussed. The Secondary data has been collected from books, official documents, reports, and journals. The major finding of the study is that, the above institution has been challenged in implementing the NPM techniques owing to various reasons including lack of knowledge, lack of staff capacity of the institution, et

Local government and good governance in Sri Lanka: a comparative study of Batticaloa and Kalmunai municipal councils

Good Governance is a precondition for sustainable development. There is also the prerequisites mat legal, institutional and policy framework as well as competencies of the local governance enable a transparent, participative, effective and efficient governance process. Unfortunatnately in East Sri Lanka as well as in many other parts of the country, this assumption is only partly met, and socio-economic progress is directly influenced by this fact On this backdrop, the research focuses on comparative view of role of Kalmunai and Batticaloa Municipal Councils in installing good governance. The prime objective of mis study is to identify the achievements of bom councils in their good governance process, and to study the barriers that are inhibiting the both council in establishing good governance. Further this research provides some recommendation to uplift this situation. This study is based on comparative method in which has been used qualitative and quantitative data. Both primary and secondary materials have been used. The major findings of this study is that level of Kalmunai Municipal Council good governance process is very low compare to Batticoloa Municipal council, and both have many challenges in establishing good governance in their governance process

Adaptive Backtracking Search Strategy to Find Optimal Path for Artificial Intelligence Purposes

There are numerous of Artificial Intelligence (AI) search strategies that used for finding the solution path to a specific problem, but many of them produce one solution path with no attention if it is the optimal path or not. The aim of our work is to achieve the optimality by finding direct path from the start node to the goal node such that it is the shortest path with minimum cost .In this paper adaptive backtracking algorithm is produced to find the optimal solution path, such that all possible paths in the tree graph of the search problem that have an expected optimal solution is tested, also a heuristic function related to the actual cost of the moving from one node to another is used in order to reduce the search computation time. The adaptive algorithm ignored any path that it is not useful in finding the optimal solution path, our adaptive algorithm implemented using visual prolog 5.1, evaluated on tree diagram and produced good result in finding the optimal solution path with efficient search time equivalent to O(bd/2) and space complexity O(bd). Keywords: Backtracking Algorithm, Optimal solution Path, Heuristic function, Dead end, shortest path, Minimum cost

On Locally S-prime and Locally S-Primary Submodules

 Throughout this article, we present locally prime, locally primary and locally S-semiprime submodules, as generalizations of prime, primary and semiprime submodules respectively. We investigate some properties and characterizations of these modules. For a multiplication module, the concepts of locally primary and locally primary are equivalent. Finally, we give the following result, if  is multiplication module, then  is locally primary submodule, if there exists a locally primary ideal of  such that  and . We provided that, every locally semiprime submodule of multiplication module is the intersection of some locally prime submodule

Issues in public service delivery : a case study of Addalaichenai divisional secretariat in the Eastern Sri Lanka

This study examines the major issues in public service delivery in the Addalaichenai divisional secretariat area of Eastern Sri Lanka. The government has the obligation to deliver the services to its citizens. Normally, the action of government which provides the services to the citizens is called as public service delivery. The objective of this study is to identify the empirical major issues in public service delivery in Addalaichenai divisional secretariat. This research is built on qualitative research methodology and it is explored by using both primary and secondary materials. In the primary source, the qualitative interviews and focus group discussion are used where necessary. In the secondary source such as books, magazines, internet articles are used. This paper finds out that two types of issues are in service delivery in Addalaichenai divisional secretariat faced by people and administrators such as unawareness of people, discrimination, delay, lack of modern facilities, political influence. These issues are the challenges to the day to day life of the people and they have to be solved to achieve the enhancement of the citizens

Pengaruh Kompetensi Pedagogis Guru dan Fasilitas Laboratorium terhadap Keterampilan Peserta Didik

The objectives of this research are to investigate: (1) the significant effect of teachers’ pedagogic competency on student skill in “managing document duplication”course in the Eleventh Grade of Office Administration Skill Competency of State Vocational High School of Wikarya Karanganyar in the school year of 2013/2014; (2) the significant effect of laboratory facility on student skill in “managing document duplication”course in the Eleventh Grade of Office Administration Skill Competency of State Vocational High School of Wikarya Karanganyar in the school year of 2013/2014; (3) the significant effect of teachers’ pedagogic competency and laboratory facility on student skill in “managing document duplication”course in the Eleventh Grade of Office Administration Skill Competency of State Vocational High School of Wikarya Karanganyar in the school year of 2013/2014.The research used the descriptive quantitative method. The population of research was the eleventh graders of State  Vocational High School of Wikarya Karanganyar consisting of 96 students, with 54 students as the sample. Technique of collecting data used was questionnaire with likert scale and documentation of psychomotor aspect score. Technique of analyzing data used was a multiple linear regression analysis.From the result of research, it could be concluded that: (1) there was an effect of teachers’ pedagogic competency on the student skill in “Managing document duplication” course in the Eleventh Grade of Office Administration Skill Competency of State  Vocational High School of Wikarya Karanganyar in the school year of 2013/2014; (2) there was an effect of laboratory facility on the student skill in “Managing document duplication” course in the Eleventh Grade of Office Administration Skill Competency of State  Vocational High School of Wikarya Karanganyar in the school year of 2013/2014; (3) there was an effect of teachers’ pedagogic competency and laboratory facility simultaneously on the student skill in “Managing document duplication” course in the Eleventh Grade of Office Administration Skill Competency of State  Vocational High School of Wikarya Karanganyar in the school year of 2013/2014. In this research, it was reported that the linear regression equation was  Ŷ = 5.008 + 0.038 X1 + 0.050 X2. It meant that the average student skill (Y) increased or decreased by 0.038 for each unit of increase or decrease in teachers’ pedagogic competency (X1) and increased or decreased by 0.050 for each unit of increase or decrease in laboratory facility (X2). The contributions of individual variables were: (1) relative contribution of 44.5% and effective contribution of 28.66% for teachers’ pedagogic competency (X1) to student skill (Y) variables; and (2) relative contribution of 55.49% and effective contribution of 35.74% for laboratory facility (X2) to student skill (Y) variables.Keywords: teachers’ pedagogic competency, laboratory facility, student skil

PENGARUH KOMPETENSI PEDAGOGIS GURU DAN FASILITAS LABORATORIUM TERHADAP KETERAMPILAN PESERTA DIDIK PADA MATA DIKLAT MENANGANI PENGGANDAAN DOKUMEN KELAS XI KOMPETENSI KEAHLIAN ADMINISTRASI PERKANTORAN SMK WIKARYA KARANGANYAR TAHUN AJARAN 2013/2014

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui ada tidaknya pengaruh: (1) kompetensi pedagogis guru terhadap keterampilan peserta didik pada mata pelajaran Menangani Penggandaan Dokumen kelas XI di SMK WIKARYA Karanganyar Tahun Ajaran 2013/2014; (2) fasilitas laboratorium terhadap Keterampilan peserta didik pada mata pelajaran Menangani Penggandaan Dokumen kelas XI di SMK WIKARYA Karanganyar Tahun Ajaran 2013/2014; (3) kompetensi pedagogis guru dan fasilitas laboratorium secara bersama-sama terhadap keterampilan peserta didik disekolah pada mata pelajaran Menangani Penggandaan Dokumen kelas XI di SMK WIKARYA Karanganyar Tahun Ajaran 2013/2014. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian deskriptif kuantitatif, populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah Siswa SMK WIKARYA Karanganyar kelas XI sejumlah 96 dengan sampel sebanyak 54 responden. Teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan adalah kuesioner dengan metode angket dan dokumentasi nilai aspek psikomotorik. Teknik analisis data yang digunakan adalah analisis regresi linier berganda. Dari hasil penelitian dapat disimpulkan bahwa: (1) ada pengaruh kompetensi pedagogis guru terhadap keterampilan peserta didik pada mata pelajaran Menangani Penggandaan Dokumen kelas XI kompetensi keahlian administrasi perkantoran SMK WIKARYA Karanganyar tahun ajaran 2013/2014, hal ini ditunjukkan dengan thitung>ttabel atau 3.891>2.007; (2) ada pengaruh fasilitas laboratorium terhadap keterampilan peserta didik pada mata pelajaran Menangani Penggandaan Dokumen kelas XI kompetensi keahlian administrasi perkantoran SMK WIKARYA Karanganyar, hal ini ditunjukkan dengan thitung > ttabel atau 4.600>2.007; (3) ada pengaruh kompetensi pedagogis guru dan fasilitas laboratorium secara bersama-sama terhadap keterampilan peserta didik pada mata pelajaran Menangani Penggandaan Dokumen kelas XI kompetensi keahlian administrasi perkantoran SMK WIKARYA Karanganyar tahun ajaran 2013/2014 dengan Fhitung>Ftabel atau 46,059>3,178. Dalam penelitian ini dilaporkan bahwa persamaan regresi linier Ŷ=5.008 + 0. 038 X1 + 0. 050 X2. Hal ini berarti rata-rata keterampilan peserta didik (Y) meningkat atau menurun sebesar 0,038 untuk setiap peningkatan atau penurunan satu unit kompetensi pedagogis guru (X1) dan meningkat atau menurun sebesar 0,050 untuk setiap peningkatan atau penurunan satu unit fasilitas laboratorium (X2). Besarnya sumbangan yang diberikan masing-masing variabel adalah : (1) sumbangan relative sebesar 44,5% dan sumbangan efektif sebesar 28,66% untuk variabel kompetensi pedagogis guru (X1) terhadap keterampilan peserta didik (Y); (2) sumbangan relative sebesar 55,49% dan sumbangan efektif sebesar 35,74% untuk variabel fasilitas laboratorium (X2) terhadap keterampilan peserta didik (Y). Kata kunci : kompetensi pedagogis guru, fasilitas laboratorium, keterampilan peserta didi