Sudath Perera appointed Surveyor General

The government has appointed Additional Surveyor General W. Sudath L.C.Perera as the Surveyor General with effect from Aug. 30.He completed his primary education from Welikada Gampaha/Dharmapala Primary School and his secondary education from Gampaha/St. Mary’s College, Negombo and he is a Physical Science Honours Graduate from the University of Colombo.

He first joined St Peter’s College, Colombo 04 as a Mathematics Teacher for GCE (A/L) students, then he joined the Survey Department as an Assistant Superintendent of Surveys in 1988 and successfully completed his Higher Diploma in surveying from the Institute of Surveying and Mapping Diyatalawa. He obtained a Professional Master’s Degree in Geoinformatics (Spatial Information Systems) from ITC Netherlands, in 1998. He worked as a Lecturer and a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Surveying and Mapping Diyatalawa and contributed to produce many survey professionals to the nation.

He has extensive experience in supervision, execution, monitoring and troubleshooting of the land survey work carried out by surveyors in the Topographic Survey Directorate under the Ministry of Housing in the Kingdom of Bahrain for over 4 years. And further Operational training on Planicom Z2 from the Carl Zeiss company in Germany in 1992, Workshop on Mapping from Space at ISM Diyatalawa in 1999, Participated to the (Asian Conference on Remote Sensing) ACRS conference during 2008 & 2016 and Participated to UAV data management training in India in 2017. In addition, he has participated as a resource person in various conferences in Sri Lanka.

He has been instrumental in pioneering and supervising various development scheme of land surveys such as densification of the control network, Surveys for the development of Airports, Express Road surveys in Sri Lanka, Acquisition Surveys for various development projects, Engineering Surveys for development and settlements in Mahawali areas and he has made a great contribution to improve Land Title Registration and management of Sri Lanka and greatly contributed to develop Bim Saviya program.

He has played a major role in making mapping work more efficient and bringing maps closer to the public, and has been instrumental in empowering the Land Information System in Sri Lanka.

Currently he is working as a member of the National Steering Committee appointed to establish a National Spatial Data Infrastructure allowing better and efficient use and sharing of Geospatial Information which will have a great impact on development activities.Currently he holds the position of vice chairman of Land Survey Council and will take up duties as chairman with his appointment as surveyor General.