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Technical College Balapitiya

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 9, 2025
Entity authorityQ19717689 ↗
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The Technical College Balapitiya is situated in Balapitiya, Galle District, Sri Lanka. Established in 1982, the college is managed by the Department of Technical Education and Training.

Expansion

Hilfswerk Austria, in 2007, donated a fully equipped building, to the college, that included two libraries and a computer laboratory. The cost was Rs. 20 million. A solar powered Electrical and Computer Laboratory was opened on 29 July 2011. It had been designed and project managed as part of the Korea International Cooperation Agency programme.

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This entry incorporates text from “Technical College Balapitiya” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.