- Cabinet approval has already been granted for the collecting of data of all Sri Lankans, digitizing them for developing a persons' database and issuing an electronic National Identity Card, with the view to minimizing the issues and inconveniences related to manual paper based registering system and issuing of identity cards with hand written information. It has been found necessary to establish a Disaster Recovery Centre in order to provide uninterrupted service and secure the main data centre from natural disasters such as storms, floods or earthquakes and technological problems such as network failure etc. The proposal made by H.E. the President, in his capacity as the Minister of Defence and Urban Development, to establish a Disaster Recovery Centre at the Technology Park in Sooriyawewa, Hambantota, where the required infrastructure facilities are available, was approved by the Cabinet.