Hanwella Rajasinghe Central College

Hanwella Rajasinghe Central College

History

Hanwella is one of the historic place in the ancient Seethawaka Kingdom. The Kelani river, one of the major rivers in motherland flows alongside the town. Hanwella Rajasinghe Central College was established instead of Hanwella bilingual school and inaugurated in 1886 in the premises where the present divisional educational office is situated.

At the time that the Free education to all from primary level to the university was introduced by Dr. C.W.W. Knnaggara ( The Minister of education ) this school was named as Hanwella Madhya Maha Vidyalaya. This was the 20th Madhya maha vidyalaya in ceylon which belongs to the 3rd category.

At that time the the present central school was insufficient to cope to the 600 pupils, therefore the school was shifted to a new place called Lancia meru godalla.

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