Devi Balika Vidyalaya
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| Devi Balika Vidyalaya, Colombo 08 | |
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| Motto: | Manasa Sanvuta Dheera "Great are those who are serene in mind" |
| Established: | 1953 |
| Type: | National School |
| Principal: | Mrs. S.R.Malalasekara |
| Location: | Colombo, Sri Lanka  |
Devi Balika Vidyalaya is a girls' school in Colombo, Sri Lanka. It was founded 15.01.1953 as Castle Street Girls School. Deshabandu Dr.(Mrs.) late Wimala De Silva was the founder Principal of Devi. It began with 5 teachers and 53 students. It has produced the first lady engineer and veterinary surgeon of Sri Lanka. In 1972 girls who passed the year 5 scholarship entered Devi Balika for the first time.
"Just as the Lotus, our emblem, is rooted in the slit of a bed of water and grows out of it and reaches towards the sun to open up to its fullest beauty, so may the girls of Devi Balika be rooted in the native soil, but reach out to the full height of knowledge and wisdom and blossom in that glow"
-Dr. Mrs. Wimala de Silva : Founder Principal-
