2600 Sambhuddhathwa Janatiya_part 01
2600 Sambhuddhathwa Janatiya_part 02
Although the annual commemoration of Vesak, the most sacred day in the Buddhist calendar commemorating the three-fold incidence (Temagula) of the birth, attainment of Supreme Enlightenment and the Parinibbāna (the Great Passing Away) of the Gautama Buddha falls on this day, this year it is uniquely significant as it is the 2600th year of the Buddha’s Enlightenment. Especially in an era where the world is confronted with many conflicts as well as natural and man-made calamities, the Buddhist Doctrine of non-violence, understanding, compassion and peace holds hope for mankind.
Ministry Of Education In sri lanka also introduced lot of devotees activities to do in the schools island wide.These are some of them engaged by Batuwangala Maha Vidyalaya’s Students with the participation of teachers and Parents.

Batuwangala Maha Vidyalaya is the leading ICT institution in Down south Sri Lanka. From the very first beginning we were curious about the challenge we faced coz this is a remote, village school with student population less than 300. Classes conduct from Grade one to Grade 13. When we start a website for the evillage we were behind some five, let’s say 10 schools in the country. From the very first beginning Our ICT teacher Mr.Aruna Chaminda had strict and fast track ICT training to the Batuwangala Maha Vidyala’s students and of course to the village people. We faced lots of hardships. At certain points we were trapped up to neck and what we did certain times was we postpone our internet based activities for while and then starting again. Given bellow is our statistics at the date of 11th May 2011. We have exceeded one Hundred thousand Hits.
This gives us nothing but inspiration to go further as Mr.Aruna Says. We do be proud and of course very very happy coz among known facts we are the fist school in Sri Lanka with known stats to exceed this limit. In this point we would like to thank Secondary Education Modernization Project Known as SEMP for giving us a computer Lab and Training. And we would like to be thankful to Mr.Denuwan Wijewardena for his endless favors he rendered for our school. Mr.Denuwan will add to history of our evillage with no doubt. Then Mr.Chanuka Waththegama must be thank coz he showed us the way to appear in the Internet. Inside Batuwangala Maha Vidyalaya, Our Principal, teachers and all the students must be thanked for their support regarding this project.

Buddhism is a path of practice and spiritual development leading to Insight into the true nature of life. Buddhist practices such as meditation are means of changing oneself in order to develop the qualities of awareness, kindness, and wisdom. The experience developed within the Buddhist tradition over thousands of years has created an incomparable resource for all those who wish to follow a path — a path which ultimately culminates in Enlightenment or Buddhahood.

But modern day Students are reluctant of do not have time to learn religious education. Karana trust along with Batuwangala Rajamaha Viharas’ Venerable Monks Organized a prize giving programme to up hold the attendance of Sunday school among school children.
Children who become first in the classes will be given A dictionary, A school bag, and set of books require for his or her grade in the new class. But if he or she has not attended to the Sunday school regularly he or she will not be entitle to all the parts of the gift.
This process coordinates by Ven. Warukandeniye Piyarathana of Batuwangala  Raja Maha Vihara. Ven. Warukandeniye Piyarathana visited Batuwangala Maha Vidyalaya and presented the prizes himself and gave some Valuable advices to the children.
Ven.Warukandeniye piyarathana Advises BMV students.
2011 programme schedule and rules were introduced to the children and documents which are required to be signed by the Sunday school teacher and public school teacher and a time table for the year of 2011 were also given. Vise principal and the BMV staff were also present.

This took almost the day. Another set of students were washing curtains and other covering clothes using washing machine and fetched new fresh curtains by the end of the day one. Then we had Lunch all together @ computer lab. After connecting all the computers back to the power and local network we left the school.
The next morning we came back and went to clean our pico hydro power plant. Aruna sir and Grade 12 girls and Grade 11 and 10 Boys were there. They cleaned the upper dam first. It was muddy and garbage blocked water supply was difficult to clean.

However we finished it and came down for cleaning powerhouse. We cleaned the power house and we started the power plant. It was working fine after one month closure and the voltage was just 220v. Everyone was happy and we started our new school year with lots of new experiences. Especially Aruna sir gave lot descriptions on how to clean computers using hand blowers and how to clean power sockets. Disconnecting local area network and reconnecting, Restarting power plant, cleaning inside the power hose, filter cleaning and generator maintaining lots of things were discussed.