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Opinion: digital forms without queue reform just move the bottleneck

By Thilini Rajapaksa

May 2, 2026 1:59 PM GMT+0 Updated May 2, 2026

Upload PDFs beautifully — citizen still wastes a day fetching token chits physically. THELEDGER/RAJAPAKSA Purchase Licensing Rights ↗

May 2 (TheLedger) - I tested four ministries last month.

Two accepted uploads then demanded countersigned paper duplicates "for legacy binders." Digitisation divorced from archival sunset is cynical theatre.

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