Public Trustee’s Department is not merely a some other department in Sri Lanka. It is a Public Institution being renovated continuously according to the needs of economical, social, welfare requirements in modern years and also devoted to perform the services of the general public. It may be the contentful outcome of our sincere efforts that made by way of confirming the faith of general public in regard to the activities of the Public Trustee’s Department done in official level during the past 75 years.

The interest taken to attend to the duties effectively and efficiently in a busy background by performing a valuable public service is a treatment gone beyond rules and regulations. It is our policy to attend to their future needs of persons who have trusted and entrusted the management of their valuable wealth for their entire satisfaction.

A brief glimpse of the services rendered by us in performing the efforts to fulfill the expectations of great men who have entrusted all their wealth to the Public Trustee which had been earned throughout their life time or entitled to them from their ancestors could be classified as hereunder:

The medical aids division, on consideration of valuable and superfine services to be rendered to the poor patients have granted benefits up to 50,000 of grantees under this scheme.

Under this:

Among the services done by us, the award of scholarships takes a prominent place. During the past 2 years we have awarded more than 3000 scholarships. We were above to perform a valuable service of this nature as a result of Estates entrusted to the Department by the great people.

To assist the children of under 18 years of age from low income groups and form the families who have suffered form the Tsunami tidal waves in order to proceed with their educational matters.

The donation of scholarships are donated based on the following facts that have been indentified.

The Trusts and Estates which gives a good contribution towards the performance of above activities.

By now the programme of awarding 1000 scholarships has already begun under the trusts that have been established in our department by the Donators.

Selections of suitable candidates:
A general form has been introduced for the selection of scholars. This project is open to the children of families of low income groups. They must be form incongenial areas with low income families.

Our contribution towards the promotion of religious affairs on having fulfilled the aims of Religious Trusts is very important.

We are continuously taking steps take care of agricultural property or trusts and estates in the manner of fulfilling the primary objectives of trusts and development of such property with a minimum cost. we are also taking steps increase the productivity of agricultural property continuously and we have been successful in such efforts and also have been able to provide employment opportunities to several people.

The entire acrage or the extent of land vested unto the Public Trustee exceeds 1000 acres by the trust settors with good faith and trustworthyness upon the department for taking care of such property due to the :

The List of Estates under administration of Public Trustee by performing the adhering to the needs of trust settlors.

We have been able to win the hearts of personal trust settlors by being appeared as Custodian Trustee of nearly 350 Estates / Trusts of trust settlors who have established their trusts in order to get their future objectives fulfilled at their discretion. We are bound with them for the safe custody and maintenance their estates and the same time we pay our maximum contribution for development of said estates.