Old girls – SMV

History of PPA

The activities of the Past Pupils’ Association of Saiva Mangaiyar Vidyalayam during the earlier years were crumbled in 1957 after the School’s 25th anniversary and again in 1982 after the 50th anniversary due to the communal disturbances in the country.

Our late Principals Late Deshabandu Nahammal Miss. Kasippillai (1934-1969) and late Miss. Manoranjitham Arumugam (1975-1991) and the President of the Welfare Society, Ceylon Overseas Service late Mr.Yogendra Duraiswamy, made the first move and initiated reviving the association in 1993. After 11 years of non-functioning the Association was revived in 1993, since the last one functioned until 1982.

Continuous Projects of the PPA

Educate the Girl Child Fund (EGC Fund)

The EGC Fund was started to support the deserving students who are unable to continue their studies due to financial needs. Launched in 1997 with the assistance of donors the Fund has sponsored the education of many. As of 2019 the Fund supports 35 students of the Vidyalayam with the School fee and the extracurricular charges.

Students’ Skills Development Programme

A soft skills development programme for the students of the Vidyalayam was initiated in 2017 with the objective of preparing the students for a successful career and life. The programme consists of various sub-programmes such as workshops for students, non-academic activities, enhanced leadership coaching for Prefects and non-financial assistance for School clubs. Often such skills are undervalued and trained less for, as a result the PPA launched the programme which is generally conducted once per term by subject matter experts for primary, middle and upper school separately.

Beyond Books

Beyond Books – a series of workshops organized by the Past Pupils’ Association, is an annual programme, conducted since 2019 for the post Ordinary Level students of the school, awaiting their results. The workshop series is conducted over a period of two weeks, undertaken with the objective of preparing the students for the many obstacles they may face in society. The workshop series is designed including topics that are not covered in the school curriculum.

School Walk 2012 & 2017

The PPA organized the School walks in 2012 & 2017 commemorating the 80th & 85th anniversaries of the Vidyalyam at which the entire school community; including the past and present students, past and present teachers, members of the Saiva Mangaiyar Kalagam, parents and well-wishers joined to celebrate the excellence of the Vidyalayam. The 2012 Walk was held as a “Walk for a greener future”, while in 2017 it was tagged as ‘Drenched in pride’ celebrating 85 years of excellence.

Events organized by the PPA in the recent years

Vaanavil 2013 & 2016

Vaanavil is a major fund raiser organized by the PPA to raise funds for different projects. Vaanavil 2013 was organized in aid of the refurbishment of the Junior science laboratory and Vaanavil 2016 was organized in aid of the Educate a Girl Child Fund.

Eccitante 2020

ECCITANTE 2020 was fun fair was organized by the PPA in order gather the school community together in maintaining the camaraderie and raise funds for the projects that are conducted by the PPA at School.

Triumph of our Alumni(2003-2015)

Over the past 85 years, our proud alumni achieved their greatest potential and have been leading a successful life in the wider community as eminent scholars by setting an epitome to Saivians.

Saathviga Suthahar – Batch of 2003

The Frontier Price for the most visionary contribution at the Intelligent Data Analysis Symposium in 2017.
University of Bristol Postgraduate Research Scholarship Award 2010

NBQSA Silver Award – National Best Quality Software Awards, ViduSuwa eHealth Project, eHealth Track, 2010.
Manthan Award South Asia – South Asia’s Best e-Content Award, ViduSuwa eHealth Project, eHealth Track, 2009.
eSwabhimani Award – National Best e-Content Award, ViduSuwa eHealth Project, eHealth and Environment Category, 2009.

eAsia 2009 – Speaker Award, eHealth Track, 2009

Sarathanjali Manoharan – Batch of 2003

Assistant director – Ministry of Environment and Wildlife Resources.
Kim Kendall memorial prize for Most outstanding graduate in Natuaral Resource Management 2020 – Asian Institute of Sri Lanka.
Best Debater Award – International Day of Forests 2019 organized by Food and Agriculture organization of United Nations.
SLAAS award 2011 – science popularization award(Tamil Medium)

Dinusha Vatsalan – Batch of 2004

Ruby Payne-Scott Award – Awarded by CSIRO, 2019
Women in Science Career Award – Awarded by Software & Computational Systems Awards, Data61, CSIRO, 2018
Early Career Researcher Travel Award – Funded by the Australian National University, 2016.
Data Linkage and Anonymisation Programme participant – Funded by the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK, 2016.
Investigator and mentor for the project Privacy-preserving medical data linkage – Awarded by Google Summer of Code 2016.
Co-investigator for the project Advancing data integration: Privacy and semantics for record linkage – Awarded by the Australia-Germany Joint Research Cooperation Scheme, 2015-2016.
Endeavour Postgraduate Research Award – Awarded by the Australian Government, DEEWR, 2011.
Recognition of Women in Data Mining Citation – Awarded by AusDM 2011 Conference, 2011.
NBQSA Silver Award – National Best Quality Software Awards, ViduSuwa eHealth Project, eHealth Track, 2010.
Manthan Award South Asia – South Asia’s Best e-Content Award, ViduSuwa eHealth Project, eHealth Track, 2009.
eSwabhimani Award – National Best e-Content Award, ViduSuwa eHealth Project, eHealth and Environment Category, 2009.
eIndia 2009 Speaker Award – Awarded by the eIndia Conferece, eHealth Track, 2009.

Krishnaratha Gopala Krishnan – Batch of 2005

International Leo of the Year 2013/2014 awarded by the Lions International Association – First female recipient from Sri Lanka

Abarnah Kirupananda – Batch of 2005

Dr Shrinika Weerakoon Memorial Award for the Best Research Paper in Changing Higher Education Student Skills, awarded at the SLAIHEE Conference, July 2019
International Leo of the Year 2014/2015 awarded by the Lions International Association
Most outstanding Leo Club President in Sri Lanka 2015/2016 awarded by the Leo Multiple District 306

Rathigashini Ramachandren – Batch of 2007

First Rank in Merit List – MD part 1 examination of Gynaecology and Obstetrics-February 2017

Mythily Aravindan – Batch of 2009

Best academic performer of all faculties of University of Colombo, 2016
Graduated from Faculty of Medicine with a first class, 11 Distinctions and 23 Gold medals
Island Rank – GCE A/L 2009 – Bio Stream
POH associates Scholarship recipient throughout the undergraduate degree program

Lakshika Sivaloganthan – Batch of 2015