Madurankuli

Madurankuli මදුරන්කුලිය மதுரங்குளி
City
Multi-shot of the city
Madurankuli
Coordinates: 7°53′36″N 79°49′20″E / 7.89333°N 79.82222°ECoordinates: 7°53′36″N 79°49′20″E / 7.89333°N 79.82222°E
Country	Sri Lanka
Province	North Western Province, Sri Lanka
District	Puttalam District
D.S. Division	Puttalam Divisional Secretariat
A.G.A Division	Mundalama Divisional Secretariat
City Acronym	MDK
Local Authority	Kalpitiya Pradeshiya Sabha
Area
• Total	43.3 km^2 (16.7 sq mi)
Elevation	2.7432 m (9.0000 ft)
Population
• Total	3,000+ Approximate
Demonym(s)	Madurankuliyan
Time zone	SLST (UTC+05:30)
Postal Code	61270
Area Code	032
Website	www.madurankuli-sl.blogspot.com

Madurankuli is a town and an active city in the suburb of Puttalam. It is also known as Madurankuliya(මදුරන්කුලිය) in Sinhala and மதுரங்குளி in Tamil; it is abbreviated as "MDK". It is a fast developing city in North Western Province, Sri Lanka with well-connected by roads and railway network, situated between Puttalam and Chilaw (in the A3 Puttalam to Peliyagoda road) town. This city is located 114 km away from the centre of the commercial capital Colombo, accurately in North Western region at 7°54'43" north of the equator and 79°49'49" east of the Prime Meridian with most greenery and river environments. It is one of the oldest residential parts of the city with over 3,000+ people around including all religions - Hindu, Buddhist, Muslims, Christian, living together with prosperity and harmony.

Madurankuli is a growing commercial center, the area is famous for trading activities such as exporting Coconuts, Copra, Salts, Oil, Prawn Farms, Fresh Vegetables, Agri-Cultivation and much more. And it is normally a famous city among business industry investments, because most of the lands are unused and now they are being used for building factories, farms, agri-business, real-estate and much more business activities.

Schools & Educational institutions

While education rate is rapidly growing, several developments taking place in the government schools; the private schools are serving to the international qualification standards here. Non-profit organizations and other international government help with immense amount of funds to the orphanages centres and rural schools around in Madurankuli.

Mercy Education Complex (Mercy)

Mercy Education Complex is a Non-profit organization located in the town covering a vast area of landscape. This is a dedicated facility for Orphans education. Mercy Education Complex - Sri Lanka is committed to provide low cost health care and education facilities and humanitarian assistance whenever needed, without any regard to race, color, gender or religion. It relies upon charitable donations from Zakat House of the Govt. of Kuwait. Govt. of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), Peshawar Medical College and individual donations. Its projects include Home Schools, Mercy Educational Complex (MEC) – the major educational project for orphans.

The free services to orphans include residential education facilities, school books / other requirements, food, health facilities and some nominal money for going and coming back from home in vacations.

The main objective is to provide formal education to orphans, enabling them to meet the challenges of life without developing any personality complexes. It will them to earn their livelihood and support their families.

School of Excellence International School (SOE)

The School of Excellence International School in Sembetta, Sri Lanka. Also called as SOE. This school is one of the running gift from Muslim Hands of UK (NGO). This school provide excellent education system to students across the province with high standard and quality English education from Primary to Secondary level. English is taught with finest teachers and management. SOE school is vast project backed and running by Muslim Hands of UK. Here students have broader facilities for a brighter future. Location of this school is surrounded with silence, where the students have got any chances of diverting disturbance of sounds like Road ways vehicles, trains, market, or other. Here Orphan gets plenty of free facilities from the Muslim Hands - NGO. Ordinary students are levied fair and reasonable fees. Moreover, the students and the educational system of this school is outstanding concern and a gift to the Province and the nation.

Muslim Hands is an international aid agency and NGO working in over 50 countries worldwide to help those affected by natural disasters, conflict and poverty. Their service offers Education, Environment, Health, Livelihoods, Orphans, Seasonal - Iftar, Seasonal - Qurbani and much more projects.

People of Madurankuli feel as the god given gift to develop the education rate and the future of living standard.

National schools

• P/Kadayamottai Muslim Maha Vidyalayam, Kadayamootai
• P/Madurankuli Adharsha Maha Vidyalaya, Madurankuli
• P/Kanamulla Muslim Maha Vidyalayam, Kanamulla
• P/Puluthivayal Muslim Vidyalayam, Puluthivayal
• P/Virudhodai Muslim Maha Vidyalaya', Virudhodai
• Madurankuli Model School, Madurankuli

Private schools

• Al-baas International School, Virudhodai
• SOE International School, Sembetta

University

This university is located in 13 km from the city, "The Open University of Sri Lanka" (OUSL) (Sinhalese: ශ්‍රී ලංකා විවෘත විශ්ව විද්‍යාලය, Tamil: இலங்கை திறந்த பல்கலைக்கழகம்) is a national university in Sri Lanka. It is unique within the Sri Lankan national university system for being the only university to offer programs of study leading to Certificate, Diploma, Degrees and Postgraduate degrees up to PhD level through the Distance Mode Learning.^[1] The degrees awarded by the university are treated as equivalent to degrees awarded by any other Sri Lankan University under the preview of the University Grants Commission.

• Open University of Sri Lanka, Puttalam

ICT & other institutions

• Nena Sala, Kanamulla

Social Networks

You may find news and other updates from the official online Social Networks

• Facebook - www.facebook.com/madurankuli.sl
• Twitter - www.twitter.com/madurankuli

Villages

There are over 70+ villages in Madurankuli which belongs to respective Pradhesiya Sabah; since 2005 every village is being developed with modern culture and standard of living, such developments are mostly in roads, public library, water system, cultivation, electricity, information technology, telephony services, with faster internet/broadband services, and much more.

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

List of near Villages

1. Kadayamottai
2. Kanamulla (Kanamoolai)
3. Viruthodai
4. Rahmathgramam
5. Sameeragamam
6. Mukkuthoduwawa (Thoduwa)
7. Madeenapuram
8. Puluthivayal
9. Palasola
10. Kivula
11. Kurinjavattai
12. Maraika-Senai
13. Nallandholuva
14. Pubudugama
15. Manthamanthivu
16. Mihraajpuram
17. Mallampitiya
18. Kongonimulai
19. Elluchchenaimundal
20. Suriwayal
21. Unawelli Wewa
22. Unawelisedawatta
23. Tungichenai
24. Sundisena
25. Sinnasolle
26. Sembetta
27. Sandichena
28. Pookulam
29. Philips
30. Pattayama
31. Pallikundawayal
32. Meegaha
33. Karaditivu
34. Kallamaducenai
35. Elluchchenaimundal
36. Attaditivu
37. Attadithotem
38. Amurdalechchimi
39. Wlusumanapura
40. Suhadagama
41. Pansal Handhiye
42. Unaveli

Incidents & Remarks

• Holcim Lanka Ltd., the cement manufacturer located in Kallady utilized the road way transport in 2004 to ship heavy duty equipment from Thoduwawa Beach. The said carrier vessel then diverted from Colombo Harbour after examining the conflicts in transport from A9 Colombo-Puttalam road.
• Numerous accidents have been reported at the Railway cross from Thoduwawa Road (nearby Madurankuli Junction)
• Prominent Politician visited Madurankuli: Honorable ... M. H. M. Ashraff, Rauff Hakeem, Mahinda Rajapaksa
• Madurankuliya Wind Farm is a Wind Energy project name. Later it has been renamed as Narakkaliya Wind Farm. Located in Narakkaliya, bordering the Lakvijaya Power Station, in Narakkaliya, Puttalam, Sri Lanka.
• Once a year, a Heavy Rain leads to flooding mostly in Kanamulla, Kadayamottai, Viruthodai, Manthamanthivu, Rahmathgramam and other places.
• It's so awesome to experience a Misty morning once in a year with raining and dark clouds all day long.

Misty Morning in Madurankuil

Geography & Climate

Madurankuli
Climate chart (explanation)
J F M A M J J A S O N D     20     30 20     14     32 21     18     35 23     55     37 25     70     37 26     40     36 26     50     36 25     104     35 25     119     34 24     188     32 24     145     30 23     51     29 21 Average max. and min. temperatures in °C Precipitation totals in mm
Imperial conversion J F M A M J J A S O N D     0.8     86 68     0.5     90 70     0.7     95 73     2.2     99 77     2.8     99 79     1.6     97 79     1.9     96 77     4.1     95 77     4.7     93 75     7.4     90 75     5.7     86 73     2     84 70 Average max. and min. temperatures in °F Precipitation totals in inches

Climate

The climate of Madurankuli is tropical, with a marked dry season, and temperatures averaging between 20 °C in January to 31 °C in February and March. The most of the areas are wetter, with almost 2000 mm of rainfall per year, overall the city and the nearby areas are somewhat cooler than the coastline Mukkuthoduwawa.

Average Rainfall for Madurankuli, Sri Lanka

Climate data for Madurankuli, Sri Lanka
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Average high °C (°F)	30 (86)	31 (88)	33 (91)	34 (93)	34 (93)	32 (90)	32 (90)	32 (90)	32 (90)	31 (88)	30 (86)	29 (84)	32 (90)
Average low °C (°F)	22 (72)	22 (72)	24 (75)	26 (79)	26 (79)	25 (77)	24 (75)	24 (75)	24 (75)	24 (75)	23 (73)	22 (72)	24 (75)
Average precipitation mm (inches)	16 (0.63)	19 (0.75)	22 (0.87)	63 (2.48)	54 (2.13)	87 (3.43)	130 (5.12)	140 (5.51)	111 (4.37)	192 (7.56)	141 (5.55)	71 (2.8)	1,046 (41.18)
Average precipitation days	1	1	2	3	3	2	3	4	5	8	7	4	43
Source: World Climate Guide. To check the current Weather - Visit: http://www.worldweatheronline.com/Madurankuli-weather/North-Western/LK.aspx

Businesses

The major businesses in Madurankuli are Coconut, Fiber, Charcoal, Agriculture, Shrimp Farms, Oil, and Copra. Much of the business here are traded and marketed in international markets - therefore the export rate is relatively higher than other closer cities. Other most higher businesses are retail stores like textiles, grocery, jewelry, automobiles, hardware, medical pharmacy, liquor, photo studio, electronics, vehicle service centers, music and entertainment.

Coastline businesses are primarily Fishing and hotels and restaurants.

Hospitals & Medical centers

From recent developments the medical service providers have been increasing in every villages. Some of them are listed below:

Medical Centres

• Kanamoolai Medical Center, Kanamulla Tel: [phone]
• Gafoor Medical Center, Kanamulla Tel: [phone]
• Sadeek Medical Center, Kadayamootai Tel: [phone]
• Sooriya Medical Center, Madurankuli Tel: [phone]

Hospitals

• Rural Hospital, Kottantivu Tel: [phone]
• Ayurveda General Hospital, Nallandholuva
• Balasooriya Private Hospital, Puttalam Tel: [phone]

Banks

Since it is a fast-developing city several banks are locating in Madurankuli, some private (under constructions) and national banks are serving and managing for major business companies and for individuals with Personal Banking, Corporate Banking, Development Banking, Treasury Services, Overseas Customer Services, and ATM Card Centers.

This is a list of Banks in Madurankuli, Sri Lanka. It is categorized according to the government and private banks.

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

National Banks

• Bank Of Ceylon, Tel: [phone], Web: www.boc.lk, SWIFT Code: BCEYLKLXXXX
• Peoples Banks, Tel: [phone], Web: www.peoplesbank.lk, SWIFT Code: PSBKLKLXXXX

International Money Transfer service

(Worldwide Inward remittance institutions): Please be aware that Sri Lanka has only Inward - Only able to receive money from Worldwide. And unable Outward or send money from Sri Lanka to other country according to CB Rules.

• MMBL
• MoneyGram
• Western Union
• X-press Money
• Coinstar
• Ez Remit

Religion

Festivals & Specials

The people in Madurankuli celebrate many traditional festivals centres on sacred shrines of diverse faith.

• The Ramazan, Haj and Milad-un-Nabi festivals are also celebrated by the majority Muslims in Madurankuli especially at historic and famed Masjidh's (mosques) or Plane Grounds in the Town and nearby cities. These celebrations are mainly of religious character, recitations of Qur'an and distribution and sharing of cooked foods and sweets to relations and neighbors. Apart from festivals Muslims treat every Fridays as a special one with family.
• All Buddhist temples celebrate the Vesak, Poson and Esela festivals commemorating the events of great importance to the Buddhists. These festivals feature colourful decorations, lanterns, illuminations and pageants where traditional dancing, drumming, costumed dignitaries and elephants are paraded.
• The St Anne's Roman Catholic church is located on a magnificent beach stretch in Talawila in the Puttalam district. The church draws thousands of pilgrims for its main festivals in March and July.
• The Munneswaram and Hindu temples are pilgrim centres of many devotees. People gather to worship deities and seek favours. The main temple of God Shiva at Munneswaram, comprises the shrines and has been built according to traditional Hindu style. Munneswaram celebrates its major festival in August where fire-walking is practiced.

Places of Worship

Madurankuli has almost all the worship temples from all the religion.

Islam

• Numerous amount of Mosques or Islamic worship center have been erected by the Muslim society. And there some Islamic Institution providing Islamic education and engaging social services.

Buddhist

• There are Buddhist temples where several events of great importance to the Buddhists take place. Mukkuthoduwawa is one of the prominent place where Sinhalese live with their religious centers in the surroundings.

Christianity

• There are also numerous Catholic Church found in Madurankuli for worship with considerably many Christian people around.

Hindu

• Munneswaram and Hindu temples are also could be found in the town and nearby areas.

Sports

• Cricket is the primary sport played in surroundings and other close areas. There are several cricket societies found here; each society has its own teams. The official cricket ground is located in the Kadaymottai Maha Vidyalam (School).
• Every year there is Motorbike racing right after the Muslim Ramadhan festival organized by the sports society. It is one of the most big event in the entire city.
• And other major sports played are the Volleyball. This sport is also played widely and every year there will be a great event of volleyball in several parts of the Madurankuli.

Culture & Traditions

Culture in Madurankuli is similar as seen in major cities in the North Western Province. Cultural aspects are derived from the Muslim tradition here mostly and most people here much kind and actively socialized in the community. People here are very obedient and well mannered with other people, this has been in practice since over forty years. Most people here in Madurankuli prefer their own business to own and run from several business industries. These cultural activities are considerably moving towards slump while the education rate increases. It is a piteous situation as elders to outlook the some cultural stuff being lost every day by modern technologies and influences.

Tradition in Madurankuli are also considerably adopting to new changes here, which makes most people helpless and piteous towards the generation, which may result to lose the traditional activities and movements of the previous ages. Festivals like Ramadan and Eid Ul Ad-ha plays a vital role in the tradition category; Most people here celebrate the festivals to share happiness with their relatives and create numerous functions, social events and grand sports meet that brings teenagers and mid-aged people participate and have joy as others to build up the socialism in the Muslim and Non-Muslim community.

Coastline

Coastline, is all about the beach, fishing, and boating. The coastline is known as Thoduwawa. It is also widely known for its beach. This sea is of Indian Ocean facing the bottom south part of India. The entire coastline is monitored by the Sri Lankan Navy.

The primary business of this people are Fishing. There is a mini fish market where captured fishes are being displayed for the sale. We get almost all the popular fish species for curry. Usually the sea somewhat soft and often rough according to the whether.

There are resorts and hotels to facilitate the tourist and who visit the place.

Tsunami Warning

It is warned that the Thoduwawa beach is exposed to the Tsunami or sea disasters. Please be away during rough seas. Marked as the Evacuation Zone, it is advised to move fast towards Madurankuli route.

Transport

Transport in Madurankuli is very convenient and has never been a hassle to travel anywhere within the country. And Madurankuli is located 114 km away from the centre of the commercial capital Colombo. And Jaffna is 224 km away. At the same time it is just 100 km to Kandy.

Air way

The city is pretty close to domestic and international airports. Check details as in below:

ICAO Code	IATA	Scale	Service Range	Name	City	Distance	Airlines
VCRI	HRI	Large	International	MATTALA RAJAPAKSA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (Currently Closed)	Hambantota	321 km S (6 hours)	Mihin Lanka
VCBI	CMB	Large	International	BANDARANAIKE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT	Katunayake	93 km W (2 hours)	SriLankan, Qatar Airways, Emirates, Thai Airways, Etihad, Cathay Pacific, Air Arabia and etc...

Rail way

The most convenient way of transport is the rail to several cities. This rail services works with specific time schedules. The services is Served by the Muthu Kumari (Pearl Princess) train. A route of 83 miles (134 km) along the North-Western coast.

• Madurankuli Station 3075. Comes from: Colombo, Ragama, Negombo, Chilaw, Bangadeniya, Mundel, Mangaeliya, Madurankuli, Nagavilluva, Palavi, Thilladi to Puttalam.

Arrival to MADURANKULI	Departure from MADURANKULI	Reaching to COLOMBO FORT	Train Starting from	Train Runs to	Available days of the week	Type of the Train	Train No
04:55:00 (4:55 AM)	04:56:00 (4:56 AM)	08:32:00 (8:32 AM)	NOORANAGAR	COLOMBO FORT	MONDAY TO SUNDAY	Colombo Commuter	3817
10:15:00 (10:15 AM)	10:16:00 (10:16 AM)	14:08:00 (2:08 PM)	NOORANAGAR	COLOMBO FORT	MONDAY TO SUNDAY	Colombo Commuter	3817
13:10:00 (1:10 PM)	13:11:00 (01:11 PM)	17:55:00 (5:55 PM)	PUTTALAM	COLOMBO FORT	MONDAY TO FRIDAY	Colombo Commuter	3820
17:05:00 (5:05 PM)	17:06:00 (5:06 PM)	21:10:00 (9:10 PM)	NOORANAGAR	COLOMBO FORT	MONDAY TO FRIDAY	Muthu Kumari	3828
17:05:00 (5:05 PM)	17:06:00 (5:06 PM)	20:37:00 (8:37 PM)	NOORANAGAR	COLOMBO FORT	SATURDAY AND SUNDAY	Colombo Commuter	3828

Road way

The region is served by an extensive rail and road transport system providing linkages to the major cities and ports in Sri Lanka. It has an extensive public transport system based on buses operated both by private operators and the government owned Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB). Some major roads include. The Bus services works throughout the 24-hour-a-day by private and CTB buses.

• A3 Road: Stops at all the towns from Colombo (Pettah) (152 km)

Route No	Start From/Runs To	Type	Time
04	Puttalama - Colombo	Private/CTB	4.30AM-8.30 PM
914	Puttalama - Chilaw	Private/CTB	6.00AM-7.00PM
07	Kalpitya - Colombo	Private/CTB	4.30AM-8.30PM
04	Anuradhapura - Colombo	Private/CTB	Anytime
87	Vavuniyawa / Mannarama / Jaffna - Colombo	Private/CTB	Anytime

Communication

Communication is rapidly developing sector in Madurankuli. The usage of the communication is much higher compared to the previous statistics used for personal and corporate purposes.

Postal services

Post is one of the widely used service for corporate communications, look for the postal details below:

• Madurankuli - 61270

For more postal service information, Contact: 032-2268262.

International Courier services

In fact, International courier deliver any where in the world. And it's much easy in here to receive and post international courier through:

• EMS Post in Sri Lanka Post, Puttalam

Internet/Broadband services

Internet is the primary medium of communication by all users. Usage of internet is very high. The entire Madurankuli is facilitated with high reception and fastest 3.75G radio technology by the Etisalat. Whereas other network providers Airtel, Dialog, and Hutch offer 3G, WCDMA & EDGE.

• SLT ADSL - Sri Lanka Telecom, now cover all suburbs in Madurankuli with ADSL Broadband services with super-reliable connectivity.

Telephony services

Telephone services are widely powered by Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) with quality services to every homes and offices. Others like LankaBell, Dialog CDMA, and Suntel provide Wireless Fixed Terminal (WFT) with good quality antenna reception.

Emergency

Police

Emergency:

• Dial:119

Responsible Division:

• Police Station - Mundal, Tel: [phone]

Nearby Police Stations:

• Police Station - Puttalam, Tel: [phone]
• Police Station - Chilaw, Tel: [phone]

Ambulance

• Balasooriya Hospital Ambulance Service, Tel: [phone]
• Kottantivu Rural Hospital Ambulance Service, Tel: [phone]

Electricity

• CEB Breakdown Call Center, Tel: 1987
• CEB Regional Center - Puttalam, Tel: [phone]

Telephone

• SLT Call Center, Tel: 1212
• SLT Regional Center - Chilaw, Tel: [phone]

Internet

• SLT Broadband (ADSL) Breakdown Call Center, Tel: 1242

Geographic Location

References

1. The Open University of Sri Lanka Homepage Retrieved on 23 November 2009

External links