MAJOR GENERAL RENUKA ROWEL WAS AWARDED PRESTIGIOUS VISHISHTA SEVA VIBHUSHANAYA (VSV) MEDAL

His Excellency, the President Maithripala Sirisena, in his capacity as the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, awarded the prestigious Vishishta Seva Vibhushanaya (VSV) decoration that recognizes unblemished service of 50 serving and retired senior armed services personnel during a dignified ceremony held at the Presidential Secretariat on the National War Heroes' Day (May 19). VSV Medal recognizes the outstanding and unblemished service of 25 years in respective forces and considered the highest military decoration and a tribute that can be achieved during the course of an officer’s career.

Major General K R P Rowel RWP USP ndu USACGSC of Sri Lanka Signal Corps was among the recipients of this prestigious medal where 25 Sri Lanka Army officers, including the Commander of the Army, 23 Sri Lanka Navy Officers including the Commander of the Navy and 2 Sri Lanka Air Force Officers, including the Commander of the Air Force received those decorations.

Major General Rowel joined the Service on 1st October 1981 as an Officer Cadet of Intake-2 of the then General Sir John Kotelawala Defence Academy. At the end of the successful training, he was awarded with the prestigious ‘Sward of Honor’ as he had secured the first in the order of merit in his intake, and was commissioned as a 2^nd Lieutenant on 1^st January 1985. Since then, he has hitherto rendered his dedicated duty, honour and respect to the Corps of Signals as well as to the Army as an authentic Signaller, in the best of his ability in all the assignments entrusted to him until he was granted his retirement on 15^th April 2017 at the completion of his altruistic service in the Army as a Major General with a professional status of a Chartered Engineer.

At his retirement, on the recommendation of the Commander of the Army, Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces and His Excellency the President has recalled Maj General Rowel into the active service on 16^th April 2017 and presently he is serving as the Director General of the Research, Analysis, Project and Development Branch of the Sri Lanka Army.