In order to further enhance and broaden horizons of professional knowledge in every sphere of military career in peacetime, the facilities and curricular at Officers’ Study Center (OSC) at Diyatalawa Sri Lanka Military Academy (SLMA), are to be upgraded and elevated to be compatible with international standards as per instructions of the Commander of the Army Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya.
The OSC at Diyatalawa came into being in 2004 as the brainchild of Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya, Commander of the Army in his capacity as the Sri Lanka Military Academy (SLMA) Commandant during his tenure (2002-2004) and has remained as the SLMA’s academic wing, meant exclusively for Officers since the SLMA is designed mostly for training of Officer Cadets as the premier seat of learning.
Lieutenant General Jayasuriya during a visit to the OSC on Friday (2) morning, reviewed its status quo and current academic roles. After observations, he instructed the incumbent SLMA Commandant to immediately refine and reactivate its command structure and administrative layout to meet with growing local and international standards in the competitive professional milieu.
The OSC declared open by the former Chief of Defence Staff and Commander of the Army Lieutenant General L.P Balagalle on 25th June 2004 at the invitation of Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya, then SLMA Commandant, is expected to offer knowledge to officers on a wide variety of military, general, professional and international disciplines and specific subjects.
As recent as January this year, Lieutenant General Jayasuriya, depicting his strong commitment to groom officers with sound academic and professional background for multitude of future Army assignments, particularly considering further promotion of officer-quality, opened the Buttala Officers’ Career Development Centre (OCDC), quite identical to the vision of the OSC at Diyatalawa, but the OCDC with its new building complex has a capacity to absorb more officers as trainee students. On Thursday (1), the Commander en route from Wellawaya to Weerawila, met the OCDC Commandant and its board of instructors to receive a full briefing on its ongoing courses and study programmes.
Speaking to a section of senior civil officers of the State Administrative Service, now following an OCDC training programme, the Commander received a first-hand account of the quality of the OCDC curriculum and shared a couple of views with the trainees before his departure. HE the President soon after the Buttala ‘Deyata Kirula’ exhibition in 2011 assigned the building complex to the Army to be used for a worthy project of this nature.
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