New Chief Government Valuer to assume duties

COLOMO: Deputy Chief Valuer, P.W. Senaratne is due to assume duties on April 3, as the Chief Valuer of the Government Valuation Department.

He has been appointed to the post with effect from April 1, by the Cabinet of Ministers. Being a chartered valuer, Senaratne has had his primary education in Berannawa Vidyalaya in Yatiyantota, and secondary education in Malalpola Maha Vidyalaya and Deraniyagala Sirisaman Central College.

He is a member of the first batch of Estate Management and Valuation degree course, first introduced in then Colombo Campus of University of Sri Lanka in 1972.

He obtained a second class (upper division) pass in the degree. It is to be noted that he is the first Estate Management graduate of a Sri Lankan University to become the Chief Valuer.

He joined the Government Valuation Department in 1977 as an Assistant Valuer and served in various parts of the country as a Senior Assistant Valuer in 1986 and as a Deputy Chief Valuer since 1995.

He obtained his Chartered status in 1994 after passing the final examination and enrolling as a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors of the United Kingdom.

He is also a Fellow Member of the Institute of Valuers of Sri Lanka.

As a Chartered Valuer, he is the present Treasurer of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Sri Lanka Branch and also the General Secretary of the prestigious Alumni Association of University of Colombo.

He is a visiting lecturer in Advanced Valuation in the Estate Management and Valuation Department of Sri Jayawardenapura University.