I feel greatly pleased in making into reality the long felt aspiration of hosting a web site for the Municipal Council Batticaloa during my tenure of Mayor- ship, with the support of the members and staff of the Council.

The Batticaloa Municipal Council was functioning without the elected representatives of the people after 1999, due to the prolonged war and political instability in the North and Eastern parts of the country for the past few decades or so. The Council was reactivated in March 2008 with the elected representatives of the people under the new leadership emerged in the Eastern province consequent to the re-establishment of democracy guided by His Excellency the President, Mr. Mahinda Rajapakse. The establishment of this website coinciding with the anniversary celebrations of this beneficial transition is considered as a prelude for the future developments of the City.

I am glad and feel proud that a website is being created for the Municipal Council Batticaloa at least now as hosting of a website was a long felt need without which it will lag behind other institutions in the fast expanding electronic Information Technology world. Political and social situation, prevailed in the nearest past few decades, has prevented us from hosting a website or at least publishing a bulletin for the Council