| Author | Vidanapathirana, Charles Dias |
| Call Number | AIT SSPR no. HS-91-04 |
| Subject(s) | Credit--Sri Lanka--Matara district--Management
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| Note | A special study report submitted in partial fulfilment for the
requirements of the award of Diploma of Asian Institute of Technology, School of Engineering and Technology |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Series Statement | Special studies project report ; no. HS-91-04 |
| Abstract | Majority of the people in Sri Lanka still live in rural areas. In
spite of all the attempts of the governments to improve the institutional
sector for providing credit to the rural poor, their credit needs are
still mainly supplied by the non-institutional sector. The institutional
sector has less experience in providing credit to rural poor and monitoring
large numbers of widely dispursed small loans has become the main
problem faced by them in handling rural credit.
Various government departments have tried to provide vocational
training and credit facilities to assist the poorer sections in the
country. Matara District Integrated Rural Development Project (MIRDP) has
also given financial assistance to various government and
non-governmental institutions for this purpose and it was found that the
success of these projects were very low.
A credit scheme has been formed in Matara in 1989, namely Community
Credit Service (CCS), under a non-governmental organization with the financial
support from MIRDP, to organize people at hamlet level into small
groups and provide them credit facilities to start income generating activities.
CCS has now started this credit scheme in a large number of
hamlets in the district.
Reliable information required for proper monitoring of CCS is not
provided to the management at present and need has arised to develop a
proper information system for CCS. A greater part of the daily working
hours of the staff is absorbed to attending various functions of the
credit scheme. The data collected by the CCS are not processed due to
the limitations of the manually controlled management information system.
The management information system of an organization can be developed
easily with the use of micro-computers. The data collected by the CCS
at present can easily be used to generate different kinds of information,
with least difficulty. The computers now available at the Matara IRDP
office can be used for this purpose at the beginning and when the CCS
develops its activities, it will be able to use it's own computers in
future. This study has focused to identify the information gap of
CCS and to develop a suitable monitoring system. The main part of the
proposed monitoring system has been developed with the use of dBase III
plus, while certain information will be continued to be obtained manually. |
| Year | 1991 |
| Corresponding Series Added Entry | Asian Institute of Technology. Special studies project report ; no. HS-91-04 |
| Type | Special Study Project Report (SSPR) |
| School | School of Engineering and Technology (SET) |
| Department | Other Field of Studies (No Department) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Human Settlement (HS) |
| Chairperson(s) | Dias, Hiran D.; |
| Examination Committee(s) | Demaine, Harvey;Gonzales, R.L.; |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Swedish International Development
Authority (SIDA)
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| Degree | Special Studies Project Report - Asian Institute of Technology, 1991 |