Deshabandu
Deshabandu දේශබන්දු தேசபந்து | |
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Awarded by The Government of Sri Lanka | |
Type | Title of honor/Order of merit |
Eligibility | Sri Lankan citizens |
Criteria | Highly notable service to the nation |
Status | Currently constituted |
Statistics | |
First induction | 1986 |
Last induction | 2019 |
Precedence | |
Next (higher) | Deshamanya |
Next (lower) | Veera Chudamani |
Deshabandu (Sinhala: දේශබන්දු, romanized: dēśabandu; Tamil: தேசபந்து) is the third highest national honour awarded in Sri Lanka. It is awarded "for meritorious service".[1] The title is held by no more than 150 living holders at any time. It is conferred with a citation and a silver medal with a symbol of a peacock.[2] It is conventionally used as a title or prefix to the awardee's name.
Deshabandu ranks lower than Deshamanya.
Awardees[]
Awardees include:
- 1986
- Ahangamage Tudor Ariyaratne
- Wimala de Silva
- Arulanandam Yesuadian Samuel Gnanam
- 1987
- 1988
- 1989
- 1990
- Bertram Russell Heyn
- Victor Hettigoda
- Sangarapully Sellamuttu
- Surendra Ramachandran
- 1991
- 1992
- 1993
- 1994
- 1996
- Aravinda de Silva
- Roshan Mahanama
- Hashan Tillakaratne
- Asanka Gurusinha
- Sanath Jayasuriya
- Pramodya Wickramasinghe
- Muttiah Muralitharan
- Romesh Kaluwitharana
- Chaminda Vaas
- Kumar Dharmasena
- Marvan Atapattu
- Ravindra Pushpakumara
- Upul Chandana
- 1998
- Primus Tillekeratne de Silva
- Mapatunage James Perera
- 2005
- Arumadura Nandasena Silva Kulasinghe
- Harold Herath
- Indradasa Hettiarachchi
- Joe Abeywickrama
- Kirthi Tennakoon
- Lionel Fernando
- Osmund Jayaratne
- S. D. R. Jayaratne
- Tissa Abeysekara
- Tony Ranasinghe
- 2017
- Deivanayagam Eassuwaren
- Lakshman Lucian de Silva Weerasena
- Leslie Shelton Devendra
- Mahinkande Gamladdalage Kularatne
- Susanthika Jayasinghe
- Ranjan Madugalle
- Shanthilal Nilkanth Wickremesinghe
- Thommadura Pabilis Silva
- Wegapitiya Kattadiyalage Hemachandra Wegapitiya
- Ahamed Rizvi Mohamed Rifkhan
- 2019
- M.R. Latiff
- Edwin Ariyadasa
- Sugath Thilakaratne
- Professor Wimal Dissanayake
- Anura Punchi Bandara Tennakoon
- Anslem Boniface Perera
- Professor Raja Sarath Bandara
- Professor Lakshman Dissanayake
- Professor Shirajini Niriella
- Professor Nimal Herath Sadaratne
- Jerome L. de Silva
References[]
- "National Awards". Presidential Secretariat. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
- ^ Gunawardena, Charles A. (2005). Encyclopedia Of Sri Lanka. Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. p. 254. ISBN 9781932705485.
- ^ "LAUGFS Group Chairman receives 'Deshabandu' National Honour". Daily FT. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
- ^ https://www.newsfirst.lk/2019/08/19/president-honours-outstanding-citizens-at-national-awards-ceremony/
External links[]
Categories:
- Deshabandu
- Civil awards and decorations of Sri Lanka