Engineering Division
Activities of this branch done under main two fields,
- 01. Activities of explosives relevent subject
- 02. Activities of fire arms relevent subject
01. Activities of Explosives Relevant Subject
Under this subject explosive permits or explosive licences are issued relevent to use of technical explosives.
Issuing of Explosive Permits
- When commercial level mineing activities explosive permits are issued for requirements of explosives.
- Metal quory industry Performance and Financial Report 2014
- When non commercial level mineing if there is a explosive requirement explosive permits are issued for the purpose.
- When developing a land to blast and remove obstacles.
- When making a foundation or digging a well to blast obstacles.
- For various industries (non digging industries) to use explosives permits are issued.
- For Aurvedic productions
- For mosquito coils production
- For ink/paints productions
- For boxes of matches production
- For rubber related Productions
Issuing of Explosives Licenses
- For manufacturing fire works.
- For commercial supplying of fire works.
- For manufacturing of elephant fire crackers.
- For supplying of explosives.
- For monufacturing of explosivs.
- For importing of explosives import licenses
- For exporting of explosives export licenses.
Activities of Fire Arms Subject
- Gun licenses issueing for cultivations protection.
- Gun licenses issueing for animal husbandary.
- Issueing cartridges for these licenses.
- Recomanding licenses for cultivation protection, animal husbandary and life protection.
Special Activities of Explosives Branch
- Attend various test blasting and do necesasary recomandations .
- Participating inspections for examinig the quallity of imported explosivs .
- Doing field inspections at industries on these explosives .
- Holding workshops to give technical knowledge for fire work industry and mineing industry .
- Safely destroying of date expired and unusable explosives.
Contact Us
Telephone : 0252222560
Fax :
Email :
Head of the department/ section
Mr. M.I. Withana
Assistant Controller of Explosive
077 2548222
0252222560





