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20-722: 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 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

40-588: A Second Lieutenant . With the expansion of the Ceylon Defense Force for war time service during World War II , Jayewickreme gained rapid promotion. When the demobilisation began at the end of the war, Jayewickreme left the Ceylon Light Infantry, having been one of the few Ceylonese officers to reach the rank of Major . Jayewickreme entered politics when he was unanimously elected as President of Weligama Town Council on 4 January 1936. Undertaking

60-550: A seat in the first Parliament of Ceylon , he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Labour and Social Services by Prime Minister D. S. Senanayake in 1948. In 1952, he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Transport and Public Works by Prime Minister Sir John Kotelawala , who held the portfolio of Transport and Public Works. In 1954, he was promoted to Minister of Transport and Public Works by Kotelawala and also appointed Parliamentary Secretary to

80-488: Is Sri Lanka's second republican constitution and its third constitution since the country's independence (as Ceylon) in 1948, after the Donoughmore Constitution , Soulbury Constitution , and Constitution of 1972 . As of October 2020, it has been formally amended 21 times. The President, directly elected for a five-year term, is head of state , head of government , chief executive , and commander-in-chief of

100-529: Is a Semi-presidential republic determined by the Sri Lankan Constitution . It administers the island from both its commercial capital of Colombo and the administrative capital of Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte . The Constitution of Sri Lanka has been the constitution of the island nation of Sri Lanka since its original promulgation by the National State Assembly on 7 September 1978. It

120-570: Is the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka , who leads the ruling party in Parliament. The President can dissolve the cabinet and appoint a new one at any time. The Parliament has 225 members, elected for a six-year term, 196 members elected in multi-seat constituencies and 29 by proportional representation . The President may summon, suspend, or end a legislative session and dissolve Parliament any time after it has served for one year. Parliament reserves

140-837: The Minister of Defence and Foreign Affairs . As Minister of Transport and Public Works, he initiated the Ruhunu Kumari, Udarata Menike and Yal Devi train services of the Ceylon Government Railways . Major projects undertaken at the time include the Ella-Wellawaya road, Didula-World's End road, the Weligama Highway and the Mirissa Fishery Harbor. Operations Monty was launched during this time name after him to counter illegal immigration from South India . In 1977, he

160-2477: 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

180-2307: 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

200-1300: The Nation) is the second-highest national honour of Sri Lanka awarded by 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

220-1916: 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

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240-636: 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

260-458: The armed forces. The election occurs under the Sri Lankan form of the contingent vote . Responsible to Parliament for the exercise of duties under the constitution and laws, the president may be removed from office by a two-thirds vote of Parliament with the concurrence of the Supreme Court. The President appoints and heads a cabinet of ministers responsible to Parliament. The president's deputy

280-463: The development and expansion of the Weligama town , Jayewickreme contested the 1947 General Election from the Weligama electorate . Weligama remained his constituency till 1987, having been re-elected in 1952, 1960, 1965 and again in 1977. His long standing opponent was Panini Ilangakoon who defeated Jayewickreme in 1956 and 1970, but was intern defeated by Jayewickreme in 1960 and 1977. Having won

300-404: The national level a head of state - the president - and a legislature. The president is elected for a five-year term by the people. The Parliament has 225 members, elected for a five-year term, and 196 members elected in multi-seat constituencies through a proportional representation system where each party is allocated a number of seats from the quota for each district according to the proportion of

320-879: 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 of Sri Lanka [REDACTED] The Government of Sri Lanka ( GoSL ) ( Sinhala : ශ්‍රී ලංකා රජය , romanized:  Śrī Lankā Rajaya ; Tamil : இலங்கை அரசாங்கம் )

340-526: The power to make all laws. The primary modification is that the party that receives the largest number of valid votes in each constituency gains a unique "bonus seat" ( see Hickman, 1999). Since its independence in 1948, Sri Lanka has remained a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. The judiciary is the system of courts that interprets and applies the law in the country. It is set out in the constitution, which defines courts as independent institutions within

360-654: The total vote that the party obtains in the district. Montague Jayawickrama Born in Weligama, in Southern Ceylon to Walter Jayewickreme, a proctor and Lidia Margret, he had one sister Dorothina and one brother Errol. Educated at Richmond College, Galle , Jayewickreme studied at the Agriculture School in Peradeniya before becoming a planter . Joining the volunteer regiment Ceylon Light Infantry in 1934 as

380-602: The traditional framework of checks and balances . The Sri Lankan courts are presided over by professional judges , judges of the Supreme Court are appointed by the President with the nomination of the Parliamentary Council , others by the Judicial Service Commission . Sri Lanka has a legal system which is an amalgam of English common law , Roman-Dutch civil law and Customary Law . Sri Lanka elects on

400-583: Was appointed the Minister of Public Administration and Home Affairs by Prime Minister J.R. Jayewardene and later given the portfolio of Plantation Industries in the Jayewardene cabinet . During his tenure he developed the Tea Research Institute. A senior member of the United National Party , he served as its treasurer. On several occasions he served as Acting Prime Minister and Acting Leader of

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