Nuwara Eliya

Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) established a new Regional Office (RO) in Nuwara Eliya in January 2016 to promote regional development in the Nuwara Eliya and Badulla Districts and promote credit delivery mechanism in respective districts. One of the major objectives of selecting Nuwara Eliya as the location was to provide a better and speedy service to the members of the Employees Provident Fund (EPF), working in the plantation sector in the two districts.

Meeting the objectives of establishing RO in Nuwara Eliya, RO-Nuwara Eliya served more than 20,000 EPF inquiries including issuing balance statements, name and account amendments and other inquiries. Further, since inception, RO – Nuwara Eliya also continued its contribution to achieve sustainable and balanced regional development by promoting development activities while conducting various awareness programmes and training programmes and arranging trade fairs, technology transfer workshops and exposure visits for the benefit of entrepreneurs. Special focused was given on developing viable sectors in the region.

Under the traditional central banking function, RO-Nuwara Eliya also engages in selling CBSL publications and commemorative coins, conducting surveys organized at regional level.