Madulla | |
|---|---|
Village | |
  Madulla | |
| Coordinates: 7°18′39″N81°23′34″E / 7.3108°N 81.3929°E | |
| Country | Sri Lanka |
| Province | Uva |
| District | Moneragala |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (Sri Lanka Standard Time) |
Madulla is a village located in the Moneragala District of Uva Province, Sri Lanka.
The village is situated on the Inginiyagala Road (B527), adjacent to the Gal Oya National Park.
Uva Province is Sri Lanka's second least populated province, with 1,259,880 people, created in 1896. It consists of two districts: Badulla and Moneragala. The provincial capital is Badulla. Uva is bordered by Eastern, Southern, Sabaragamuwa and Central provinces. Its major tourist attractions are Dunhinda falls, Diyaluma Falls, Rawana Falls, the Yala National Park and Gal Oya National Park. The Gal Oya hills and the Central mountains are the main uplands, while the Mahaweli and Menik rivers and the huge Senanayake Samudraya and Maduru Oya Reservoirs are the major waterways.
UTC+05:30 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +05:30. This time is used in India and Sri Lanka, and was formerly used in Nepal. It is five and a half hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. Around 1.4 billion people live inside this time zone, making it the second most populous after UTC+08:00.
Badulla is the capital and the largest city of Uva Province situated in the lower central hills of Sri Lanka. It is the capital city of Uva Province and the Badulla District.
Great Liberation War of 1817–18, also known as the 1818 Uva–Wellassa uprising, was the third Kandyan War between native Kandyan rebels and the British, in what is now Sri Lanka. It took place in what is now Uva, then a province of the Kingdom of Kandy, against the British colonial government under Governor Robert Brownrigg, which had been controlling the formerly independent Udarata.
The following is a list of schools in Sri Lanka.
Monaragala is a district in Uva Province of Sri Lanka. It is the second largest of the 25 districts in Sri Lanka, with an area of 5,636 km2 (2,176 sq mi).
Sri Lanka Rugby is the governing body for rugby union in Sri Lanka. It is one of the oldest governing bodies in the world, being founded as the Ceylon Rugby Football Union in 1908.
Sri Lanka has held several rounds of Provincial Council elections in 2008 and 2009 to elect members to eight of the country’s Provincial Councils. The decision to hold elections in different parts of the country on separate days was a break in the usual practice, which is to hold elections for the whole country on the same day. For each provincial council, members are elected to serve a five-year term. A chief minister for the province is chosen by the elected members.
Uva Wellassa University is a Sri Lankan national university. The university was established by government gazette effective 1 June 2005 in Badulla, Sri Lanka as the 14th national university of Sri Lanka. President Chandrika Kumaratunga established the university in 2007. The university was officially opened by Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa on 5 August 2009. It is the first all-entrepreneurial university in Sri Lanka. It is designed to provide essential skills and broad general education for all students while providing the conceptual and methodological background and the training to obtain practical solutions for value addition to the national resources base of Sri Lanka.
Shasheendra Kumara Rajapaksa is a Sri Lankan politician. He is a Member of Sri Lankan Parliament for Monaragala District and current State Minister of Paddy and Cereals, Organic Food, Vegetables, Fruits, Chilies, Onions and Potatoes, Seed Production and High Tech Agriculture.
Galauda is a village in Sri Lanka. It is located within Uva Province.
Harin Fernando, MP is a Sri Lankan politician. He is a current Member of the Sri Lanka Parliament from National List. He is the former Cabinet Minister of Telecommunication, Digital Infrastructure facilities, Foreign Employment and Sports He was the 7th Chief Minister of Uva Province.
Samaraweera Weerawanni is a Sri Lankan politician. He was the Chief Minister of Uva Province in Sri Lanka from Apr 1999 to Oct 2001 his wife Nalini Weerawanni was the Chief Minister till he resigned from the Sri Lankan Parliament and became the Chief Minister.
Gamini Vijith Vijithamuni Soysa is a Sri Lankan politician. He was the Chief Minister of Uva Province in Sri Lanka from July 2004 to Aug 2009. He was elected to the Sri Lankan Parliament in 1989, 2000, 2001 and 2010 from Monaragala.
Prema Chandra Imbulana was a Sri Lankan politician who was elected to the Ceylonese Parliament representing Ruwanwella and served as the Minister of Labour. He was appointed as the first Governor of Uva Province and subsequently the second Governor of Central Province.
Uva Paranagama electoral district was an electoral district of Sri Lanka between March 1960 and February 1989. The district was named after the town of Uva Paranagama in Badulla District, Uva Province. The 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka introduced the proportional representation electoral system for electing members of Parliament. The existing 160 mainly single-member electoral districts were replaced with 22 multi-member electoral districts. Uva Paranagama electoral district was replaced by the Badulla multi-member electoral district at the 1989 general elections.
Chamara Sampath Dasanayaka is a Sri Lankan politician and the former Chief Minister of Uva Province in Sri Lanka.
Ariya Bandara Rekawa is the 8th and current governor of Uva Province in Sri Lanka.
Malwattege Simon Andrew Peeris, OBE was a Ceylonese businessmen and politician.