National honours conferred on 66 Sri Lankan citizens

President Maithripala Sirisena on Monday conferred national honours on the following citizens, as per gazette notification:

Desamanya

• Ajita de Zoysa
• Indrajit Coomaraswamy
• Merrill Joseph Fernando
• Christopher Walter Pinto
• Mohan Munasinghe
• Surath Wickramasinghe

Desabandu

• Anura Punchi Banda Tennekoon
• Anselm Boniface Perera
• Jayasuriya Mudiyanselage Raja Sarath Bandara
• Lakshman Dissanayake
• Nimal Sanderatne
• Dona Shiroma Jeeva Shirajani Niriella
• Mohomed Ruwaiz Latiff
• Sugath Thilakarathne
• Edwin Ariyadasa
• Wimal Dissanayake

Vidya Jyothi

• Arjuna de Silva
• Palliyaguruge Bandula Chandranath Wijesiriwardena
• Prasad Katulanda
• Vajira Harshadeva Weerabaddana Dissanayake
• Serosha Mandika Wijeyaratne
• Asita de Silva

Kala Keerthi

• Jerome de Silva
• Ravibandhu Vidyapathy
• Sathischandra Edirisinghe
• Jayantha Chandrasiri
• Ariyawansa Ranaweera
• Rathna Sri Wijesinghe
• Anoja Weerasinghe
• Leel Gunasekera
• Hetti Arachchige Karunaratne

Sri Lanka Sikhamani

• Anil Abeywickrama
• Anula Wijesundera
• Dian Gomes
• Tara de Mel
• Dinesh Weerakkody
• Lakshman Watawala
• Lloyd Fernando
• Wimal Karandagoda

Vidya Nidhi

• Joel Arudchelvam
• Mangala Gunatilake
• Mohamed Sakkaff Mohamed Rizny

Kala Suri

• Eric Illayapparachchi
• Kathiresu Rathitharan
• Kiribanda Mahinda Dissanayake
• Kuruppuge Palitha Chandrasiri Perera
• Panditha Mudiyanselage Karunarathna Bandara
• Ananda Dabare
• Mahamaddumage Hemapriya Kalanie Perera
• Mahinda Chandrasekara
• Wijerathna Samarasekara Indika Upamali
• Karunasiri Wijesinghe
• Sumana Aloka Bandara

Sri Lanka Thilaka

• JayanthiKuru-Utumpala
• Thambiah Perinpanayagam
• Pera Dorapege Lalitha Padmini
• Ponnambalam Jamunadevi
• Mahindadasa Wickramanayaka Karunaratne
• Mahinda Madihahewa
• Meyan Vamadevan
• Dinesh Nishantha Fernando
• Premasiri Weliwita
• Sathischandra Wanniarachchi Kumarasinghe
• Sarath Chandra de Silva

Veera Prathapa

• Moradeniyalage Eranga Vikumsiri (Late)
• Heeralu Mohottalalage Keerthi Bandara Padmasiri (Late)