Udunuwara Divisional Secretariat

History

The former President of Sri Lanka, Dingiri Banda Wijetunga, entered Parliament for the first time when he successfully contested the Udunuwara electorate at the 1965 general election and remained as the Udnuwara parliament member until he finished his term in parliament.

The following settlements represent the pre-independence 'korale' and 'wasama' subdivisions still familiar in the region, as officially registered in the 1911 Census, though the villages still reflect the modern layout. The wasama regions would have later been converted into grama niladhari subdivisions.