Royal Faculty Colombo, turned the primary college in Sri Lanka to allow digital funds via GovPay, marking one other important milestone within the Authorities’s digital transformation agenda.
The official launch passed off lately at a ceremony held on the Royal Faculty, Colombo the place the college was formally onboarded to the GovPay platform.
With this integration, dad and mom can now conveniently make college Services and Service Price funds in addition to Faculty Improvement Society (SDS) Price funds securely via any digital banking platform or FinTech software related to GovPay. The brand new facility replaces the cumbersome handbook fee course of, which was each time-consuming and inconvenient for fogeys whereas creating an administrative burden for the college. This initiative offers dad and mom with a quicker, safer and handy fee expertise.
Talking on the event, Principal of Royal Faculty Colombo, Mr. Athula Wijewardena, stated “As Sri Lanka’s first college to undertake GovPay, Royal Faculty is proud to cleared the path in embracing digital transformation throughout the training sector. This initiative will considerably enhance the comfort supplied to our dad and mom whereas enabling the college to handle collections extra effectively, precisely and transparently. We imagine this can be a progressive step in the direction of modernising public training administration.“
Commenting on the milestone, Chief Government Officer of LankaPay, Mr. Channa de Silva stated “We’re delighted to welcome Royal Faculty, Colombo as the primary college in Sri Lanka to affix GovPay. Extending digital funds to varsities represents one other important milestone in making Authorities companies extra accessible and citizen-centric. This additional validates how digital funds can simplify on a regular basis interactions between residents and authorities whereas enhancing transparency, monetary accountability and operational effectivity in Public Establishments.”
Secretary of the Royal Faculty Faculty Improvement Society, Mr. Jaliya Perera, additionally welcomed the initiative, stating “The introduction of GovPay simplifies the fee course of for our mum or dad group whereas strengthening monetary governance via safe digital transactions. It eliminates pointless paperwork and queues, permitting each dad and mom and the Faculty Improvement Society to learn from a extra environment friendly, clear and accountable fee ecosystem.”
GovPay is a collaborative initiative of LankaPay and GovTech Sri Lanka, carried out below the course of the Ministry of Digital Economic system to allow safe and handy digital funds for Authorities companies. With the onboarding of Royal Faculty Colombo, GovPay now connects 301 Authorities establishments, offering residents with digital entry to funds for 4,413 Authorities companies. Since its launch in February 2025 the platform has processed 439,818 transactions with a complete transaction worth exceeding Rs. 4.8 billion demonstrating the fast adoption of digital funds throughout Sri Lanka’s public sector.
GovPay is Sri Lanka’s nationwide Authorities digital fee platform that allows residents to make safe on-line funds to Authorities establishments via collaborating banks and licensed FinTech purposes, providing a seamless, handy and clear fee expertise.
