Up Country Tamils: Charting a New Future in Sri Lanka Table 2: Plantation Community’s trust in selected public institutions Institutions Sinhalas* Indian Tamils Civil Service 60.5 42.3 District Secretariat 78.1 49.5 Divisional Secretariat 81.4 51.2 Grama Niladhari 87 40.1 Election Commission 69.8 68.2 Human Rights Commission 54.2 69.6 Anti–Corruption Commission 46.8 53.2 Police 62.8 35.2 Local government authorities 69.4 42.1 Central government 48.2 50.8 Parliament 51.2 57.3 Education department 72.0 69.3 Electricity board 75.1 53.2 Post office 70.6 56.1 Agriculture department 77.2 35.2 Source: Field Survey, 2015/16 by the author for a three-year project on Quality of Government, Public Service Delivery and Citizenship Rights in Sri Lanka. Data for Sinhalas extracted from Trust Survey Report, 2015/16. Conclusion Although great effort has been made to grant legal citizenship to the Plantation Community, structural discrimination and indifferent treatment still continue to have an influence. Furthermore, various policies and their particularistic and unfair practices are more likely to systematically preclude this community from enjoying public services and social citizenship rights. This condition requires reforms in policies, laws, and 46