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Ragala Scalaris
Ragala is a small town in Central Province, Sri Lanka. It is part of Walapane Pradeshiya Sabha, in the Nuwara Eliya District. Agriculture The town's agricultural exports consist of tea leaves to tea production companies such as Dilmah. Ragala is also home to various farms growing crops such as pears and apples. Transport It used to be served by a narrow gauge branchline of the national railway network, part of which is being rebuilt to broad gauge. The village is served by public busses. Services The village has a National Savings Bank branch. See also * Railway stations in Sri Lanka Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of land transport, next to roa ... References Populated places in Sri Lanka {{CentralLK-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Village
A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighborhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement. In the past, villages were a usual form of community for societies that practice subsistence agriculture and also for some non-agricultural societies. In Great Britain, a hamlet earned the right to be called a village when it built a church.-4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it wa ... ''village'', from Latin ''villāticus'', ultimately from Latin ''villa'' (English ''vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dilmah
Dilmah Ceylon Tea Company PLC, trading as Dilmah, is a Sri Lankan beverage company that is headquartered in Peliyagoda, Western Province, Sri Lanka. While MJF Teas is the parent company of Dilmah, MJF Holdings is the ultimate parent. The company is best known for its brand of Ceylon tea, sold internationally. The company was founded in 1985 by Merrill J Fernando. Dilmah is the 10th largest tea brand in the world. History The company's founder, Merrill J. Fernando, was born in 1930 in Negombo in British Ceylon. He moved to Colombo, where he became one of the Ceylonese tea tasters, after doing his training at Mincing Lane in London. While there, he was astonished to see that different teas were mixed and blended but still marketed as pure Ceylon tea. The tea which had been hand-picked and produced according to the Ceylonese traditional process was being used only as a raw material. It was bought cheaply, with branding and packaging taking place in Europe and the UK. This syst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Savings Bank (Sri Lanka)
National Savings Bank (NSB) is a state-owned Savings Bank in Sri Lanka. It was incorporated in Ceylon by the ''National Savings Bank Act No. 30'' of 1971 and was granted the status of the Licensed Specialised Bank in terms of the ''Banking Act No. 30 ''of 1988. NSB has 262 branches. It also carries out Postal savings system, postal banking with the cooperation of 643 post offices and 3,412 sub-post offices of the Sri Lanka Post. The current Chairperson of the NSB is Dr. Harsha Cabral Past Chairmen Since 1971, the following were Chairmen of the Bank (list incomplete): * Harindranath George Dias * M. J. Silva * Muttusamy Sanmuganathan * D.M Swaminathan * Cyril Herath * Upali Gunaratne * S. R. Attygalle * Pradeep Kariyawasam * Aswin De Silva * R.M.P. Rathnayake * Jayaraja Chandrasekera * Keasila Jayawardena * Dr. Harsha Cabral, PC See also * List of banks References External links * Banks of Sri Lanka Banks established in 1971 State owned commercial corporations o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
