The Government Information Center

GovSMS is another channel to obtain services and information from Government Departments via Short Messaging Services (SMS). GovSMS platform offers a SMS short code 1919, which is unified across all GSM and CDMA operators.

Request SMS format: {department/organization code} {service code} {service parameters}

Request message is NOT case sensitive

A nominal fee will be charged for request SMS

Currently following services are available.

 
1)    Train Schedule Information - View Online
       SLRD TRAIN {Starting Station} {End Station}
      
       Example:
       To get the train schedule from Colombo Fort to Ambalangoda, the request SMS would be “SLRD TRAIN FOT ABA”.
       The reply would come as “Train from Fort to Ambalangoda  16:45:00hrs 17:24:00hrs ”

2)    Crop Prices - View Online
       AGRI PRC {Crop code}
      
       Example:
       To get the price of the beans, the request SMS would be “AGRI PRC BNS”.
       The reply would be “Bean-Dambulla-50.00”