Abstract:
All human beings are born free and have equal rights without any
discrimination. Language is one of the most important elements to
representing the national identity. Tamils are the sufficient second major
racial group in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is the country which has comparatively a
larger public sector in Asia and public sector in Sri Lanka spreads to a wider
range of sectors of the economy. After ending the civil war in Sri Lanka,
although government tries to build up the national integration and finish the
all discriminations between racial groups introducing regulations and
programs to the administrative institutions through the ministry for national
languages and social integrity, lot of Tamils are discriminated and isolated by
language policy practices in Sri Lanka. Thus, examining the manipulation of
the language policy in public administrative institutions & its impact to the
national integration of Sri Lanka is very important. Research was selected
100 respondents covering public servants and Tamil publics using random
sampling method. Questionnaires, interviews and key informant were used
for quantitative and qualitative data as primary data in divisional Secretariat
office in Balangoda division and secondary data was also used. Key findings
of my research are (i) Tamils can't be received the public service and all
documents in Tamil in administrative institutions. (ii) Government's Tamil
teaching program, is unsuccessful. (iii) Public servants' Tamil language
proficiency is very low. (iv) No sufficient awareness on language policy of
publics. (v) Violation of language policy rights was affected to the ethnic
conflict. (vi) Tamils have to receive third person's support to fill their
documents and give money for them. Overly, although Sri Lankan
government has implicated many language policy circulars and programs to
ensure the language rights and national integrity, there is no successful
manipulation of language policy in administrative institutions and it has
affected to the violation the national integration of Sri Lanka.
