Having considered the plight of flood and landslide victims, who had loss their passport , the Government of Srilanka has taken steps to issue new passports at low cost Rs 100 .
This will be issued on recommendation made by the Divisional Secretary. Anyone who has obtained passport after 1st January 2017 and not gone abroad, a new passport will be issued to him at Rs100.
This concession is granted till 30th August 2017. Under current method of issuing passport, if anyone loss or damaged their passport they are called upon to pay Rs 10,000 to obtain a new passport.