Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya, Commander of the Army en route from Mullaittivu after addressing troops there dropped in at the 54 Division Headquarters, Mannar on Tuesday (13), and embarked on an entirely different project, initiating the construction of 12 new technologically sophisticated vehicle Service Centres inside country-wide Army establishments.
It was a moment of pride for the visiting Commander in Mannar Tuesday forenoon since it was his initiatives that upgraded the Mannar-Thalady Army formation in the past recent years, firstly as an Area Headquarters and most recently, as a Division under command to the Security Forces Headquarters, Wanni (SFHQ-W) after Lt Gen Jayasuriya took over as the Commander of the Army in 2009. Mannar-Thalady Army camp complex traces its history back to the year 1951 just two years after the Army was raised in 1949.
Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya, Commander of the Army this morning, awarding a special preference to this historic Division Headquarters, laid the foundation stone for the Army’s first-ever most modern vehicle Service Centre and the construction of a new administrative complex inside the Headquarters premises as the auspicious moment struck. Each new Service Centre, valued at Rs 10 million, is to be equipped with state of the art sophisticated technical equipment and is a novel concept proposed by the Commander himself when he recently met a group of Senior Officers of the Directorate of Sri Lanka Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (SLEME) who have expertise to install those new equipment in these Service Centres after construction is completed by troops of the Sri Lanka Engineer Services.
The new administrative complex construction is to be completed shortly under the joint supervision of Major General A. K. S Perera, Commander, SFHQ-W and Brigadier M. A. M Dias, General Officer Commanding, 54 Division. Both of them welcomed the visiting Commander on arrival in Mannar before a Guard Turnout plus a Guard of Honour saluted the Army Chief. A brief presentation afterwards enlightened the Commander on the status quo in Mannar. The visiting Commander, consequent upon a brief address to the Mannar troops later on visited one Brigade Headquarter and two Battalion Headquarters, situated in the suburbs of Mannar under the 54 Division.
Under the Army’s restructuring programme now on, those three formations are to be amalgamated in the future to make it an area headquarter, the Commander told the troops serving those formations during his separate visits.
It was a moment of pride for the visiting Commander in Mannar Tuesday forenoon since it was his initiatives that upgraded the Mannar-Thalady Army formation in the past recent years, firstly as an Area Headquarters and most recently, as a Division under command to the Security Forces Headquarters, Wanni (SFHQ-W) after Lt Gen Jayasuriya took over as the Commander of the Army in 2009. Mannar-Thalady Army camp complex traces its history back to the year 1951 just two years after the Army was raised in 1949.
Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya, Commander of the Army this morning, awarding a special preference to this historic Division Headquarters, laid the foundation stone for the Army’s first-ever most modern vehicle Service Centre and the construction of a new administrative complex inside the Headquarters premises as the auspicious moment struck. Each new Service Centre, valued at Rs 10 million, is to be equipped with state of the art sophisticated technical equipment and is a novel concept proposed by the Commander himself when he recently met a group of Senior Officers of the Directorate of Sri Lanka Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (SLEME) who have expertise to install those new equipment in these Service Centres after construction is completed by troops of the Sri Lanka Engineer Services.
The new administrative complex construction is to be completed shortly under the joint supervision of Major General A. K. S Perera, Commander, SFHQ-W and Brigadier M. A. M Dias, General Officer Commanding, 54 Division. Both of them welcomed the visiting Commander on arrival in Mannar before a Guard Turnout plus a Guard of Honour saluted the Army Chief. A brief presentation afterwards enlightened the Commander on the status quo in Mannar. The visiting Commander, consequent upon a brief address to the Mannar troops later on visited one Brigade Headquarter and two Battalion Headquarters, situated in the suburbs of Mannar under the 54 Division.
Under the Army’s restructuring programme now on, those three formations are to be amalgamated in the future to make it an area headquarter, the Commander told the troops serving those formations during his separate visits.
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