Yala National Park - Nearest to City of Tissamaharama

Yala National Park is a national park in Sri Lanka. The reserve covers 979 km², although only the original 141 km² are open to the public.Much of the reserve is parkland, but it also contains jungle, beaches, freshwater lakes and rivers and scrubland. The latter zone is punctuated with enormous rocky outcrops. The range of habitats give rise to a good range of wildlife.

Yala has the world's highest concentration of Leopards, although seeing this largely nocturnal carnivore still requires some luck. There are good numbers of Asian Elephants, Crocodile, Wild Boar, Water Buffalo and Grey langurs amongst other large animals.

The open parkland attracts birds of prey such as White-bellied Sea Eagle and the wetlands have Waders, Painted Storks, and the rare Black-necked Stork.Landbirds of course are in abundance, and include Sirkeer Malkoha, Indian Peafowl and Sri Lanka Junglefowl.The park was badly damaged by the tsunami of 26th December 2004, with the destruction of the wildlife center and tourist lodge. Many tourists, including a party of 22 Japanese, died in the disaster, as did several of the national park and lodge employees. It is claimed that no evidence of large-scale animal deaths from the tsunami was found indicating that animals may have sensed the wave coming and fled to higher ground.Now it is again open to the public visitors.The following image gallery illustrates some of the animals and bird species found in the Yala national park.

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Conservation of Tissamaharama Stupa

The chief priest of the Tissamaharama temple had pointed out to the head of the State on one of his inspections in 1993 that the Tissa Maha stupa had developed series of vertical cracks right round the dome of the stupa. According to him, the phenomena had started around 10 years before and was attributed the vibration caused by heavy lorries boulders to Kirinda down a road adjacent to the stupa. The author was requested to inspect the stupa immediately and submit a report. Accordingly an inspection was carried out by the SEC and a report was submitted to the Department of Archaeology on 22nd June 1993. According to this report there were ten large structural cracks which were almost vertical and were evenly distributed around the dome. Each crack had the widest separation at the middle of the dome, (where one could insert a clenched fist ), and appeared to spread towards the top square (Hatareskotuwa) and towards the basal terraces (Pesawas). The structural integrity of the stupa was definitely impaired and was beyond restoration to its original condition except through removal of the separated section and re building. It was also evident that one could not predict when there would be a catastrophic collapse not unlink the one occurred at Mirisavetiya.

Ttssamaharama Maha Stupa (Mahanaga stupa?), had been restored fully 1900 with public donation. No records were available of the construction work, (except that the total cost of reconstruction was Rs. 19,000/=), nor how the ruins looked like before restoration works. In fact, little information is available as to the period of original construction of four stupas found today at Tissa, the ancient Magama. (The stupas being Mahanaga, Yatala, Sandagiri and Menik Stupas ). The Mahanaga or the Tissamaharama stupa was probably built in early second half of the third century BC by king Mahanaga (the first king of Mahanaga ), or by King Kavanthissa in first half of the second century BC. It appears that no restoration work was done on this stupa till the last half of the 19th century (1857-1900), after the last rifling of this stupa by King Magha(1215-1236 AD).
In early 1994, the Director General of Archaeology requested the SEC to submit proposal for the prevention of a catastrophic failure of the stupa, which was imminent. The proposal made by the SEC consisted of embedding horizontal reinforced concrete rings, nine in number, placed just below the surface of the dome, suitably spaced between the Pesawa and the Hatareskotuwa. This proposal was submitted after computer assisted structural analysis by our engineers using available data (the quality of the surface bricks), and was carried out with the help of the civil engineering department of the university of Paradeniya. This proposal was accepted and the SEC started work on the first ring at the top most part of the stupa on 14th june 1995.
To construct the RC ring beams in the dome, bricks on the surface of dome of dome had to be removed to a depth of about one foot and to a width of about a foot for each of the ring beams. Whist constructing the first beams , we noticed that the original cracks had developed further since the first inspection and also the number of cracks had also gone up to 16 from the initial 10 The Hareskotuwa also showed cracks at certain places. It was evident that any tampering with the existing dome such as construction of trenches to embed the RC ring would further weaken the structure, especially the trenches which would have to be made on the vertical part of the dome. Two internationally reputed conservation engineering experts, (Mr.Alan Baxter and Professor Crochi ) were consulted by the Dept. of Archaeology and they too expressed concern about removal of any brick work from the stupa dome. Therefore, it was decided to stop embedding RC rings after the top most beams, and seek further proposal from the local engineering organizations for a suitable method that does not involve further weakening of the structure even temporarily during application of preventive measures.

Author - Gamunu Silva

asa

2008/04/06

about Nenasala, Tissamaharama

Nenasala - Asiri IT Centre, Tissamaharama.

Main Telecentre in Tissamaharama area.

I'm Sri Lankan guys, Also live in deep south region in Sri Lanka and very close to YALA NATIONAL PARK. I'm work as a Telecentre Operator in our village.

Nenasala - Tissmaharama is the my Telecentre, it's going on as a my business and enrolls with ICTA in Sri Lanka. The ICTA established my Nenasala Centre in year 2005. Still ICTA giving all support to Nenasala project, Monitoring, Update all Nenasala operators skills.

I very proud of myself, because I had empower to our village student and young people by Information Technology and Computer Literacy. Our villagers use my telecentre for Internet, e-mail, finding information’s, computer training, CD recording, Calling facilities, printing, typesetting, computer usage and many more requirement.

At that time I’m thanking for ICTA Sri Lanka and Sri Lankan government to establishing 500 Nenasa telecentre in sri lankan rural village. It is directly effect to developing our Nation and country. As a Nenasala Telecentre operator, today I earn money for my living coast and self satisfaction. Also I got many experience and new technology from past few year from Nenasala Telecentre project. I’m one man from 500 Nenasala operators.

Therefore, once again Thanking and wish to ICTA Sri Lanka and SL Government for success this task in Sri Lanka.

asa

2008/03/02

කාන්තා පරිගණක දෘඩාංග අළුත්වැඩියා කරන්නියන්ගේ එළිදැක්වීම

තිස්සමහාරාම ප්‍රාදේශිය ලේකම් කොට්ඨාශයේ කිරින්ද, මාගම, අන්දරගස්යාය යන සුනාමි අපදාවන්ට ලක්වු ග්‍රාමසේවා වසම් තුලින් තොරාගන්නා ලද කාන්තාවන් 15 දෙනෙකු වෙත, තිස්සමහාරාම YES FOUNDATION සහ SENOWR යන ආයතන දෙකෙහි මැදියත්වීම සහ මුල්‍ය සැපයීම මත හම්බන්තෙට වැනි දුෂ්කර පෙදෙසක කාන්තාවන් සදහා පරිගණක දෘඩාංග ඉංජීනේරු පාඨමාලාවක් පැවැත්වීමට හැකියාව උදාවුණි. 2007 සැප්තැම්බර් මස සිට තිස්සමහාරාම නැණසල ආයතනය තුල සාර්ථකව පාඨමාලාව හදාරා අවසන් කල කාන්තාවන් 13 දෙනෙකු සදහා සහතික පත්‍ර සහ ක්සේත්‍රය සදහා අවශ්‍ය වන උපකරණ ප්‍රධානය 2008 ජනවාරි මස 09 වන දින YES FONDATION කාර්යාලයේදී පැවැත්විනී. මීට සමගාමීව බේකාරී, මැහුම්, මේසන්, රසකැවිලි යන කාර්මාන්ත සදහා පුහුනු වු කාන්තාවන් සදහාද සහතික පත්‍ර සහ උපකරණ ප්‍රධානයද සිදු විය. ආරාධිත අමුත්තන් ලෙස SENWOR ආයකනයේ අධ්‍යක්ෂීකා වනසුන්දර මැතිණිය, SENWOR ආයතනයේ ව්‍යාපෘති නිළධාරීනී ඉන්දිකා මෙනෙවිය, YES පදනමේ අධ්‍යක්ෂක ප්‍රදිප් පරණගම යන මහත්ම මහත්මීන් සහභාගී විය.

මෙම කාන්තාවන් සදහා රැකියා අවස්ථා සැපයීමේ හැකියාවක් ඔබට ඇතොත් 0716 140950 අසංක, 04722 39321 සුදේශ් අමතන්න. අනාගතයේදී කිරින්ද, මාගම, අන්දරගස්යාය යන ප්‍රදේශ වල සදහා තොරතුරු තාකෂණ ව්‍යාපෘති සදහා මෙවුන් සම්බන්ධ කරගැනීම ඔවුන්ගේත්, ග්‍රාමිය ප්‍රජාවගේත් අභිවෘධිය උදෙසා හේතු වනා ඇතැයි මා සිතමි.

Asanka Eranda

Well Come 2008

Dear All,

I wish you Health...So you may enjoy each day in comfort.I wish you the Love of friends and family...And Peace within your heart.I wish you the Beauty of nature...That you may enjoy the work of God.I wish you Wisdom to choose priorities...For those things that really matter in life.I wish you Generousity so you may share...All good things that come to you.I wish you Happiness and Joy...And Blessings for the New Year.I wish you the best of everything...That you so well deserve.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2 u FRIEND!

Asa

2008/01/01

Ohhh...... We done it well

Past 20th of September 2007, I had to manage well our " Nenasala IT Nucleus 03rd activity ". I'm proud of my team members and team work, because they gave every support to me success to 03rd activity. Mr. Ranga, Mr. Lal I'm thanking for both of you.

Okeey. ............

Now I have good idea for IT Nucleus. We need plan well and immediately it. It's for our regional student and school leavers. If we can do this, it's directly effect for 2000 students live in Hamantota district.

I will update my blog, we start our 04th activity......
keep your eyes.......

I'm Asanka Eranda, Do you know ?

Hi everybody,
I'm Asanka Eranda De Silva from Tissamaharama. Many people call to me "asa" and I like it.
Now you have use it. Tissamaharama is my home town, deep south in Sri Lanka.