Nelliady Central College ( ta, நெல்லியடி மத்திய கல்லூரி ''Nelliyaṭi Mattiya kalloori'', also known as Nelliady Madhya Maha Vidyalayam) is a
provincial school
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in
Nelliady
Nelliady is a town in Jaffna District, Sri Lanka. This is the one of the busiest towns in Jaffna district.
After many coastal areas of Sri Lanka were devastated by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami many people settled further inland ...
,
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
.
History
The school was founded in 1921. It was promoted to
Madhya Maha Vidyalayam status in 1946.
The school, like most schools in the north and east of Sri Lanka, was severely affected by the
Sri Lankan Civil War. The school was the site of Sri Lanka's first
suicide attack
A suicide attack is any violent Strike (attack), attack, usually entailing the attacker detonating an explosive, where the attacker has suicide, accepted their own death as a direct result of the attacking method used. Suicide attacks have oc ...
on 5 July 1987 when
Captain Miller
Vallipuram Vasanthan ( ta, வல்லிப்புரம் வசந்தன்; 1 January 1966 – 5 July 1987; commonly known by the nom de guerre Captain Miller) was a Sri Lankan Tamil member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( ...
drove a small truck laden with explosives into the
Sri Lankan Army
ta, இலங்கை இராணுவம்
, image = File:Sri Lanka Army Logo.png
, image_size = 180px
, caption = Emblem of the Sri Lanka Army
, start_date ...
camp at the school.
See also
*
List of schools in Northern Province, Sri Lanka
The following is a list of schools in Northern Province, Sri Lanka. The province is divided into 12 education zones which are sub-divided into 33 education divisions. There are around 1,000 schools in the province. 11 schools are national schools ...
References
External links
Nelliady Madhya Maha VidyalayamNelliady Madhya Maha VidyalayamOld Students' Association, Canada
Educational institutions established in 1921
Provincial schools in Sri Lanka
Schools in Jaffna District
1921 establishments in Ceylon
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