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Sri Lanka National Defense University Army Hospital Project
Project Overview
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Construction & Infrastructure
Location
Sri Lanka
General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University (KDU)
General Sir John Kotelawala Arakshaka Vishva Vidyalaya) located at Kandawala, Ratmalana, Colombo, is a joint
services academy where cadets of the three wings Sri Lanka Army, Sri Lanka Navy and Sri Lanka Air Force are
trained before they go for their pre-commission training to their academies. Established in 1980 as the General
Sir John Kotelawala Defence Academy, named after General Sir John Kotelawala, 3rd Prime Minister of Ceylon; it
was elevated to the status of a university by an amendment bill passed in Parliament on 11 October 2007. In
2018, parliament of Sri Lanka passed the General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University (Special Provisions) Act to
abolish medical faculty of South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine and to transfer the students to
General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University. General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University member of the
Association of Commonwealth Universities.
Caledonian had supplied fire resistant and flame retardant power cables with earth wire for KDU which were
popular items in internatioanal projects.