Deiannewela or Deiyannewela ( si, දෙයියන්නේවෙල) is a
Village Officer Domain (or GN Division) of
Gangawata Korale Divisional Secretariat in
Kandy District,
Central Province,
Sri Lanka
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. It is the location of a railway station and the
National Hospital
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In 1934 the
Kandy Municipal Council, constructed a number of model
tenements in Deiyannewela, as part of its slum clearance programme. As the building of these tenements proceeded slums in other areas of Kandy were declared unfit for human habitation, those structures were destroyed and the occupants were rehoused in the new tenements. There were over 145 tenement buildings constructed, housing over one thousand unskilled and skilled labourers. The model tenements, along with those constructed at
Katukelle and
Mahaiyawa
Mahaiyawa is a village in Sri Lanka. It is located within Central Province.
See also
* List of towns in Central Province, Sri Lanka
Mahaiyawa belongs to Kandy district
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, were the first of their kind in the country. The program was sponsored and promoted by
George E. de Silva
George Edmund de Silva (8 June 1879 - 12 March 1950) was a Ceylonese lawyer and politician. He was the first Cabinet Minister of Industries, Industrial Research and Fisheries in independent Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) (1947–1948), a Member of Parli ...
, the Minister for Health and member of the
State Council of Ceylon
The State Council of Ceylon was the unicameral legislature for Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), established in 1931 by the Donoughmore Constitution. The State Council gave universal adult franchise to the people of the colony for the first time. It r ...
, representing Kandy.
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*
List of towns in Central Province, Sri Lanka
Central Province is a province of Sri Lanka, containing the Kandy District, Matale District, and Nuwara Eliya District. The following is a list of settlements in the province.
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Abasingammedda, Adhikarigama, Agalakumbura, Agalawa ...
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Populated places in Central Province, Sri Lanka
Kandy
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