Karyakshama Seva Vibhushanaya

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Karyakshama Seva Vibhushanaya
Karyakshama Seva Vibhushanaya Medal & Ribbon.
Awarded by Sri Lanka
Type	Service medal
Eligibility	Officers of the Sri Lanka Army Volunteer Force.
Awarded for	...long, meritorious, loyal and valuable service.^[1]
Status	Currently awarded.
Description	Suspended from a plain suspension bar.
Statistics
Established	1972
Precedence
Next (higher)	Riviresa Campaign Services Medal
Same	Prashansaniya Seva Vibhushanaya (Sri Lanka Navy)
Next (lower)	Karyakshama Seva Padakkama

Main article: Awards and decorations of the military of Sri Lanka

The Karyakshama Seva Vibhushanaya (කාර්යක්ෂම සේවා විභූෂණය, kāryakṣama sēvā vibhūṣaṇaya, "Efficient Service Decoration") medal awarded to the commissioned officers is a reward for long, meritorious, loyal and valuable service of proven capacity in the Sri Lanka Army Volunteer Force, and, is governed by the proclamation dated 07 January 1986. The Decoration shall not confer any individual precedence but will entitle the officer to the addition after his name of the post-nominal letters KSV. It replaced the Efficiency Decoration in 1972 that was awarded to volunteer officers of the Ceylon Army therefore it is some what similar to the British Volunteer Reserves Service Medal.

[edit] Eligibility

Commissioned officers of the Sri Lanka Army Volunteer Force who by or after 22 May 1972 have completed 18 years qualifying service as hereinafter defined shall be eligible for the award of decoration.

Commissioned service is qualified as being on the active list of a Unit of the Sri Lanka Army Volunteer Force, including commissioned service in the Ceylon Cadet Corps, after attaining the age of 17 years.

The period of service requisite to qualify for the Decoration shall be of 18 years efficient commissioned service.

[edit] First recipients

The first recipients of this decoration by gazette published on 12 October 1990 were;

Brig. C.N. Panabokke	Brig. A.E.R. Abeysinghe	Brig. P.N.K. Dias
Col. S.B.G. De Silva	Col. N.P.D. Pelpola	Col. R.M. Peris
Col. G.L. Premachandra	Lt. Col. A.P.D. Edirisuriya	Lt. Col. L.D.S. Kariyawasam
Lt. Col. S.V. Panabokke	Lt. Col. A.M.B. Amunugama	Lt. Col. P.V. Pathirana
Lt. Col. S.D. Lankadeva	Lt. Col. A. Weerakoon	Lt. Col. K. Amarasinghe
Lt. Col. S. Weragama	Lt. Col. S.A. Kulathunga	Lt. Col. C.P. Algama
Lt. Col. R.M.D. Ratnayake	Lt. Col. K.R.U. Gunawardana	Lt. Col. L.R. Attanayake
Lt. Col. D.G. Amaratunga	Lt. Col. D.M. Amarakoon	Lt. Col. G.K. Wickramasinghe
Bvt. Lt. Col. D.N. Alawathugoda	Maj. C. Gnaseswaran	Maj. M. Suriyarachchi
Maj. D.S.N. Gancgoda	Capt. T.C.M. Abeysekara	Capt. (QM) R.M.B. Ratnamalala
Lt. W.A.C. Dias	Lt. (QM) H.P. Jayasena	Lt. (QM) R.M.S. Hemapala