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32-468: Deshamanya Nissanka Parakrama Wijeyeratne ( Sinhala : නිශ්ශංක පරාක්‍රම විජයරත්න ) (14 June 1924 – 7 January 2007), known as Nissanka Wijeyeratne , was a Sri Lankan politician, civil servant , diplomat and English language poet. He was also the 17th Diyawadana Nilame (chief lay custodian) of the Sri Dalada Maligawa, Kandy from 1975 to 1985. At the time of death he was serving as

64-654: A scholarly interest in Sri Lankan sociology , as well as in religious philosophy . Nissanka Wijeyeratne after leaving university, served for a brief period for the Ceylon Artillery Volunteers as a ( reservist ) Second Lieutenant and successfully sat the Ceylon Civil Service (CCS) Examination Those were the days when only six were recruited in a year to civil service as compared with the fifty to hundred now recruited annually to

96-854: The Ceylon Administrative Service , which replaced the former Ceylon Civil Service. As a member of that Ceylon Civil service, he held several positions including permanent secretary to the Ministries of Information, Broadcasting, Transport and Cultural Affairs, Government Agent in Anuradhapura , Mannar and Jaffna and Assistant Government Agent in Galle . He was also the Chairman of the Anuradhapura Preservation Board. Wijeyeratne retired from

128-567: The Colebrooke–Cameron Commission of Inquiry , the administration of the coastal provinces and the provinces of the former Kingdom of Kandy were merged into a central system which divided the island into five provinces on 1 October 1833. Each province would be headed by a Government Agent (GA) appointed by the British Governor of Ceylon and with Assistant Government Agents (AGA) in charge of outlying districts answerable to

160-1209: The Government of Sri Lanka as a civil honour . It is awarded for " highly meritorious service ", and is conventionally used as a title or prefix to the recipient's name. Recipients [ edit ] 1986 P. R. Anthonis – surgeon and academic Gamani Corea – economist, civil servant and diplomat M. C. M. Kaleel – physician, social worker and politician Malage George Victor Perera Wijewickrama Samarasinghe Miliani Sansoni – Chief Justice of Ceylon Victor Tennekoon – Chief Justice of Ceylon 1987 Edwin Felix Dias Abeysinghe Neville Kanakeratne – diplomat V. Manicavasagar – Supreme Court Justice, Chancellor University of Jaffna Wijetunga Mudiyansela Tillekeratne 1988 Hector Wilfred Jayewardene – lawyer, member United Nations Commission on Human Rights Thambiah Sivagnanam 1989 Shiva Pasupati – Solicitor General of Sri Lanka , Attorney General of Sri Lanka 1990 Sepala Attygalle – Commander of

192-592: The Open University of Sri Lanka . The right for school children of ethnic minorities to wear a uniform that depicts the tradition and the ethnic identity to minority ethnicities and religions had been granted by Wijeyeratne in 1980. The new superior court complex in Colombo was established by Wijeyeratne with Chinese Government aid during his tenure as the Cabinet Minister of Justice. He established

224-803: The President and Sri Lanka Freedom Party chief organiser for the Dedigama Electorate in Kegalle District. He had also served as Minister of Plantation Services under President D B Wijetunga 's Government. Anuradha Dullewe Wijeyeratne (third son) entered into active politics in 1988 as a United National Party Member of the Sabaragamuwa Provincial Council in Ratnapura. He also served as Member United National Party National Executive Committee. He

256-781: The Soviet Union , where he served as the head of the Sri Lanka Diplomatic Mission in Moscow for a period of three years. Wijeyeratne's global perspectives lay not only in Russia but also from his associates in UNESCO (of which he was at one time an executive committee member). His deep interest in scholarship lay behind the proposal he made at UNESCO for the revival of the ancient library of Alexandria . A collection of over two decades of Wijeyeratne's English poems

288-678: The Sri Lanka Administrative Service in 1973. He served as member of the Executive Board of UNESCO from 1987 to 1989. The present national emblem of Sri Lanka was created in 1972 under the ideas and guidance of Nissanka Wijeyeratne. At the time, he was Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Cultural Affairs and Chairman of the National Emblem and Flag Design Committee.The designer of the emblem

320-736: The chairman of The Law and Society Trust in Sri Lanka. Nissanka Wijeyeratne was born on 14 June 1924 to a leading family from Sabaragamuwa in Sri Lanka . He was the second son of Sir Edwin and Lady Leela Wijeyeratne, of Buddenipola Walauwa , Kegalle . Sir Edwin Wijeyeratne was a former Cabinet Minister of Home Affairs and Rural Development. His elder brother, Tissa Wijeyeratne a barrister by profession, had served as Sri Lankan ambassador to France and Switzerland , Additional Secretary to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Defence, and as

352-2626: The Army Nandadeva Wijesekera Badi-ud-din Mahmud – politician, Minister of Education Baku Mahadeva – civil servant Nanayakkara Wasam James Mudalige 1991 E. L. Senanayake – politician, Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka Montague Jayawickrama – politician, cabinet minister, governor K. W. Devanayagam – lawyer, politician, minister Nissanka Wijeyeratne – civil servant, politician Sivagamie Verina Obeyasekera Christopher Weeramantry Neville Ubesinghe Jayawardena Ivan Samarawickrema Chandirapal Chanmugam Abdul Caffoor Mohamed Ameer - Queen's Counsel , Attorney General of Sri Lanka 1992 Abdul Bakeer Markar – Politician Hewa Komanage Dharmadasa Ananda Weihena Palliya Guruge E. L. B. Hurulle Abdul Majeed Mohamed Sahabdeen Suppiah Sharvananda Linus Silva Nissanka Wijewardane 1993 Geoffrey Bawa – Architect C. A. Coorey Felix Stanley Christopher Perera Kalpage H. W. Thambiah Richard Udugama – Major General Ponna Wignaraja Noel Wimalasena 1994 Jayantha Kelegama Lalith Kotelawala – Businessman Nandadasa Kodagoda – Academic Godfrey Gunatilleke Arulanandam Yesuadiam Samuel Gnanam Nugegoda Gabadage Pablis Panditharatna Surendra Ramachandran Deraniyagalage Basil Ivor Pieris Samaranayake Siriwardhana 1996 Duleep Mendis – Sri Lanka national cricket captain Arjuna Ranatunga – Sri Lanka national cricket captain 1998 Charitha Prasanna de Silva Ken Balendra – Businessman Doreen Winifred Wickramasinghe Tamara Kumari Illangaratne Elanga Devapriya Wickremanayake R. K. W. Goonesekera – Academic, Lawyer Vernon Mendis – Diplomat H. L. de Silva – Diplomat A. T. Kovoor – Academic Ranjit Abeysuriya – lawyer Duncan White – Olympic medalist Christopher Rajindra Panabokke W. D. Amaradeva – Music Director Chitrasena – Dancer 2005 Kamalika Priyaderi Abeyaratne William Alwis Mahesh Amalean – Engineer and industrialist Sohli E. Captain Radhika Coomaraswamy – Academic, Human Rights Activist, Under-Secretary-General of

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384-562: The CCS in 1870. However it was only in the 1920s did the first Ceylonese GA appointed. The role of the GA during the colonial administration, was primary collection of revenue, administration of law and order, allocation of crown land, and supervision of irrigation. Until 1956 there were nine Provincial Kachcheries, headed by a GA who administered their own district and exercised nominal authority over thirteen District Kachcheries, headed by AGAs. In 1956,

416-2511: The Central Bank of Sri Lanka J. B. Peiris – Senior Neurologist, Researcher and Pioneer of Neurology M. D. D. Peiris Denis Perera – Lieutenant General P. Ramanathan – Former Justice of the Supreme Court and Provincial Governor P. Deva Rodrigo Mano Selvanathan A. H. Sheriffdeen – Surgeon, academic and voluntary worker Roland Silva Bradman Weerakoon – Civil servant Kandekumara Hapudoragamage Jothiyarathna Wijayadasa Ray Wijewardene – Academic, Engineer 2007 James Peter Obeyesekere III – Politician and aviator 2008 Ramesh Mahendran 2017 Abbasally Akbar K. M. de Silva Tissa Devendra Colvin Goonaratna Amaradasa Gunawardana Devanesan Nesiah Nandadasa Rajapaksha Priyani Soysa Latha Walpola Mineka Presantha Wickramasingha Bhanuka Wimalasooriya 2019 Indrajit Coomaraswamy Ajith De Soyza Merrill J. Fernando Mohan Munasinghe Moragoda Christopher Walter Pinto Surath Wickremesinghe References [ edit ] ^ Gunawardena, Charles A. (2005). Encyclopedia Of Sri Lanka . Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. p. 254. ISBN   9781932705485 . ^ "National Awards" . President of Sri Lanka Secretariat . Retrieved 9 July 2013 . ^ "National Honours – 2017" . The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka) . The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka) . 21 March 2017 . Retrieved 21 March 2017 . ^ "President honours outstanding citizens at National Awards ceremony" . External links [ edit ] National Awards Conferred by His Excellency

448-650: The GA of the province. With these reforms the Ceylon Civil Service was established and GAs and AGAs were exclusively appointed from the Ceylon Civil Service. Each GA had has his office the local Kachcheri , which was the Revenue Collector's Office dating back from the Dutch period. GA and AGA appointments were made from the Ceylon Civil Service (CCS) which was formed in 1833. CCS was initially made up of British, Ceylonese were first admitted to

480-857: The Kandy Esala Perahera Fund. He was followed by his eldest son, Neranjan Wijeyeratne who was first elected as Diyawadana Nilame in 1985, and then re-elected in 1995. Wijeyeratne was a long-standing a member of the United National Party . In 1976 appointed as chief organizer for the Dedigama electorate, which he won in the 1977 parliamentary elections. He subsequently served as Cabinet Minister of Education, Higher Education & Justice in President JR Jayawardene 's government. As Cabinet Minister of Education and Higher Education, Wijeyeratne introduced

512-1921: The President of Sri Lanka v t e [REDACTED] Orders, decorations, and medals of Sri Lanka National honours Sri Lankabhimanya Deshamanya Deshabandu Veera Chudamani Vidya Jyothi Kala Keerthi Sri Lanka Sikhamani Vidya Nidhi Kala Suri Sri Lanka Thilaka Veera Prathapa Sri Lanka Mitra Vibhushana Sri Lanka Rathna Sri Lanka Ranjana Sri Lanka Ramya [REDACTED] Police awards and decorations Gallantry/Meritorious [REDACTED] Janadhipathi Police Weeratha Padakkama [REDACTED] Sri Lanka Police Weeratha Padakkama [REDACTED] Sri Lanka Police Vishishta Seva Padakkama Service [REDACTED] Sri Lanka Police Long Service Medal [REDACTED] Desha Putra Padakkama [REDACTED] Sewabhimani Padakkama [REDACTED] Sewa Padakkama [REDACTED] Sri Lanka Police First Aid Medal [REDACTED] Purna Bhumi Padakkama Campaign [REDACTED] Riviresa Campaign Services Medal [REDACTED] Northern Humanitarian Operations Medal [REDACTED] Eastern Humanitarian Operations Medal Anniversary [REDACTED] Ceylon Police Independence Medal [REDACTED] Janaraja Padakkama [REDACTED] President's Inauguration Medal [REDACTED] 50th Independence Anniversary Commemoration Medal [REDACTED] Sri Lanka Police 125th Anniversary Medal [REDACTED] 75th Independence Day Commemoration Medal Obsolete [REDACTED] Ceylon Police Long Service Medal [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Ceylon Police Medal Other honors and orders National Heroes Justice of

544-643: The Sri Lanka Cultural Triangle with aid from UNESCO for preservation of National Heritage Sites in Sri Lanka, and proposed the Sri Lankan President's Fund, which provides health and education assistance to the needy and underprivileged. One of his major personal achievements was the enactment of the Mediation Board Act No.72 of 1988. In the 1990s, Nissanka Wijeyeratne was appointed as Sri Lankan Ambassador to

576-655: The Tooth , Kandy for 10 years. He was elected for the post in 1975. Wijeyeratne was the first low country Govigama person in the history of Sri Lanka who successfully challenged the Kandyan Radala hierarchy for that post. During his tenure as Diyawadana Nilame, he introduced administrative methods to Sri Dalada Maligawa and established the Gold Museum, and re-organised the Kandy Perahera. He established

608-661: The United Nations Lalith de Mel Rohan de Saram – Cellist Chandrananda de Silva Ashley de Vos – Architect Jayaratne Banda Dissanayake M. T. A. Furkhan D. Basil Goonesekera Cyril Herath – Inspector General of Police Asoka Kanthilal Jayawardhana A. S. Jayawarden – Sri Lankan economist and civil servant Harry Jayawardena – Businessman Nihal Jinasena – industrialist and sportsman Premasiri Khemadasa – Composer W. D. Lakshman Paddy Mendis – Air Chief Marshal Sunil Mendis – former Governor of

640-606: The Universities Act No 16 of 1978 to Parliament. The University of Ceylon was the only university in Ceylon from 1942 until 1978. As a result of this Act, it was separated into five independent universities: University of Colombo , University of Peradeniya , University of Sri Jayewardenepura , University of Kelaniya and University of Jaffna . He also proposed the establishment of the University of Ruhuna and

672-459: The heads of all twenty-two districts were now designated GAs, who were all from the CCS and came under the preview of the Ministry of Home Affairs. The GA functioned as the reprehensive of the government in the district. The original responsibility to maintain law and order, soon transferred to the police and Judiciary; GA retained residual control over the police, and excided during times of crisis. This Sri Lankan politics-related article

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704-513: The nation Status Currently constituted Statistics First induction 1986 Last induction 2019 Precedence Next (higher) Sri Lankabhimanya Next (lower) Deshabandu Deshamanya ( Sinhala : දේශමාන්‍ය , romanized:  Dēshamāṉya ; Tamil : தேசமான்ய , romanized:  Tēcamāṉya ; Pride of the Nation) is the second-highest national honour of Sri Lanka awarded by

736-737: The peace Honors by year 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1996 1998 2005 2007 2008 2014 2017 2019 2023 Prizes, medals, and awards Military awards and decorations Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deshamanya&oldid=1253884868 " Categories : Deshamanya Civil awards and decorations of Sri Lanka Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata Articles containing Sinhala-language text Articles containing Tamil-language text Government Agent (Sri Lanka) The origins of

768-533: The role of Government Agent, can be traced back to the appointment of Madrassi Revenue Collectors, whose office became known as a Kachcheri . Following the annexation of the Kingdom of Kandy , the British Governor appointed Resident Agents and Assistant Agents to different parts of the island to overlook revenue collection and maintain government control. The administrative reforms carried out following

800-461: The senior adviser on foreign affairs to Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike . Nissanka Wijeyeratne also had one younger brother, Dr Cuda Wijeyeratne who is a consultant psychiatrist . Wijeyeratne completed his primary and secondary education at the Royal College, Colombo . He then pursued further studies at the University of Ceylon where he earned a BA Honours in history . He also had

832-675: Was Venerable Mapalagama Wipulasara Maha Thera and Art Work by S.M Seneviratne. During the same year (1972), four leaves of the Bo tree were added to the four corners of the Sri Lankan National flag under the direction of Nissanka Wijeyeratne. Prior to 1972, the corners of the flag were occupied by symbols depicting spearheads. The four Bo Leaves added by Wijeyeratne reflect the core principles of Mettha (loving kindness), Karuna (compassion), Upeksha (equanimity) and Muditha (happiness). During his public service career, Nissanka Wijeyeratne

864-801: Was Acting Diyawadana Nilame (Acting Chief lay Custodian) of Temple of the Tooth Kandy on several occasions for three decades, appointed by the Commissioner of Buddhist Affairs with recommendation from Mahanayaka Theras of the Malwatte and Asgiriya Chapters. Deshamanya Second-highest national honour of Sri Lanka Deshamanya දේශමාන්‍ය தேசமான்ய Awarded by [REDACTED] The Government of Sri Lanka Type Title of honor / Order of merit Eligibility Sri Lankan citizens Criteria Highly notable service to

896-441: Was Government Agent of Anuradhapura District from 1958 to 1962. He was arguably the best known of all government agents of his time. His stature ensured that the voice of Anuradhapura was heard at the highest levels in Colombo. Apart from being Government Agent , he was Chairman of the Anuradhapura Preservation Board. This was the time when the city of Anuradhapura was in a period of historic transition. The new town of Anuradhapura

928-580: Was being built, and the residents of the old were being transferred to the new town. It was a time of some tension and of excitement. He managed this process of change with courage and remarkable political skills. While in Anuradhapura, he unveiled a memorial for H. R. Freeman , a popular British Government Agent who later was elected by the people of the district to represent them in the 1st State Council of Ceylon . Coming events cast their shadows before. A striking feature of Wijeyeratne's Anuradhapura days

960-534: Was former leader of the opposition in the Kandy Municipal Council and was the former Diyawadana Nilame (Chief Lay Custodian) of the Temple of the Tooth , Kandy . He served as Diyawadana Nilame for a total of 20 years. Mano Wijeyeratne (second son of Wijeyeratne) was ex Member of Parliament from Kegalle District and former Minister of Enterprise Development, was Coordinating Secretary to

992-499: Was his great ability to see the bigger picture and focus on the key issues, and delegate responsibilities to his staff officers. He was never one to be enmeshed in detail. He also set up the Sacred City of Anuradhapura shifted the urban city to the newly created Anuradhapura town and is responsible for the establishment of Anuradhapura Airport . Nissanka Wijeyeratne served as Diyawadana Nilame (Chief lay Custodian) of Temple of

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1024-589: Was published in a book titled අපේ අප්පච්චි: An Anthology of Our Father's Poems in 2001 (Vijitha Yapa Publications, ISBN   978-9558095065 ). His poetry captures diverse issues ranging from political events to various personalities and incidents as he saw them during his prominent role in public affairs. He married Nita Dullewe, the only child of Tinnie and Mallika Dullewe of Meeduma Walauwa, Rambukkana. Nissanka Wijeyeratne and his wife Nita had five children: Neranjan, Mano, Anuradha, Lankesh and Nishanganie. Neranjan Wijeyeratne (eldest son of Wijeyeratne) He

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