Gampaha Municipal Council (Sinhala: ගම්පහ නගර සභාව) is the local council for Gampaha, the main town of Gampaha District, Sri Lanka. It is located on the wayside of the Gampaha-Yakkala road near Gampaha Railway Station.
The history of the Gampaha Urban Council runs back to 1945. The Gampaha Municipal Council was established at the beginning of the 2000s through two Extraordinary Gazette notifications published on 27 July 2000 (No. 1142/22) and 20 March 2001 (No. 117/7). The first meeting of the council was held on 15 April 2002.
Gampaha divisional secretariat has 33 divisions including the Gampaha municipal council, the old Gampaha municipal council & Gampaha divisional secretariat with a part of the Yakkala sub-office domain area. The town covers an area of 37 sq. km and is limited to Minuwangoda divisional council by North, Aththanagalla divisional council by East, Gampaha divisional council by South and Mahara divisional council by West.
The council building: an archaeological protected monument
The building of Municipal Council, Gampaha belonging to Medagama village situated in Grama Niladhari Division, Medagama in the Divisional Secretary's Division, Gampaha is an archaeological protected monument, declared by the government Gazette notification published on 30 September 2022.
References
1) The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka: Extraordinary. No: 2299/60. 30 September 2022. p.5A.
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