ECONOMYNEXT — Sri Lanka’s Nationwide Insurance coverage Belief Fund (NITF) will implement a strict digital replace mandate for public sector worker data on July 31, 2026, transitioning all ‘Agrahara’ insurance coverage profit disbursements solely to its on-line portal, NITF Chairperson Visakha Wanasinghe mentioned.
“We intend to make use of solely this information system sooner or later to disburse the advantages we offer,” Wanasinghe mentioned. “We request officers to log into our portal and full the replace with out ready till the ultimate days.”
Officers mentioned the digital shift goals to clear extreme administrative bottlenecks. To accommodate the heavy administrative load, the NITF processes between 18,000 and 19,000 of the 22,000 to 25,000 hard-copy profit claims it receives each month, with the rest delayed attributable to incomplete paperwork and mismatched certificates.
Beneath this initiative, the NITF will transition all Agrahara medical health insurance providers and profit funds right into a digitalized framework, aiming to remove paperwork burdens and slash claims processing timelines for state employees, NITF officers mentioned.
The verification drive, initiated below Public Administration Round 12/2005 (10) on March 5, applies to presently serving state officers.
Registry operations are underway throughout 1,900 state establishments, although the retired neighborhood and semi-governmental employees stay exempt as their databases are already synchronized.
Operations started on April 1, and roughly 600,000 out of 900,000 lively public servants have registered, he mentioned.
NITF Assistant Common Supervisor (Insurance coverage) Nimali Pathirana mentioned the centralized database will remove the trouble of state employees repeatedly submitting licensed copies of significant paperwork.
“If you happen to replace all this information as soon as within the requested method, we will considerably scale back the necessity for licensed copies,” Pathirana claimed.
“It can enable us to reduce delays and supply this service effectively.”
The brand new digital registry will even safe uninterrupted entry to specialised industrial healthcare perks. By sustaining an lively, verified profile, public servants and their households can seamlessly make the most of unique reductions and medical privileges supplied by main semi-governmental and personal hospitals throughout Sri Lanka.
The federal government requested the general public service neighborhood to finish registration to keep away from technical disruptions. To help the remaining 300,000 unregistered staff, the NITF has deployed digital Zoom consciousness applications by means of 100 Zonal Training Workplaces and activated devoted hotlines to deal with technical glitches and password resets earlier than the end-of-month cutoff. (Colombo/Jul13/2026)
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