Official Name: | Deiannewela |
Other Name: | Deiyannewela |
Settlement Type: | suburb |
Pushpin Map: | Sri Lanka |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Sri Lanka |
Subdivision Name1: | Central Province |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Kandy District |
Subdivision Type3: | Divisional secretariat |
Subdivision Name3: | Gagawata Korale Divisional Secretariat |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Timezone: | Sri Lanka Standard Time |
Utc Offset: | +5:30 |
Coordinates: | 7.2833°N 118°W |
Footnotes: | Kandy Four Gravets and Gangawata Korale Divisional Secretariat |
Deiannewela or Deiyannewela (Sinhala; Sinhalese: දෙයියන්නේවෙල) is a Village Officer Domain (or GN Division) of Gangawata Korale Divisional Secretariat in Kandy District, Central Province,Sri Lanka. It is the location of a railway station and the National Hospital.
In 1934 the Kandy Municipal Council, constructed a number of model tenements in Deiyannewela, as part of its slum clearance programme. As the building of these tenements proceeded slums in other areas of Kandy were declared unfit for human habitation, those structures were destroyed and the occupants were rehoused in the new tenements.[1] There were over 145 tenement buildings constructed, housing over one thousand unskilled and skilled labourers.[2] The model tenements, along with those constructed at Katukelle and Mahaiyawa, were the first of their kind in the country.[3] The program was sponsored and promoted by George E. de Silva, the Minister for Health and member of the State Council of Ceylon, representing Kandy.[4]