Minister Rohana - President

Chandana - General Secretary

Sampath BANDARA

The Annual General Meeting of the Table Tennis Association of Sri Lanka (TTASL) was held recently at Otters Aquatic Club Colombo.

Minister of Urban Development Rohana Dissanayake (MP - Matale District) was elected uncontested as the President of the TTASL for the period of 2009/2010.

Minister Rohana, a very keen Table Tennis promoter in the Matale District accepted and forwarded his candidature for this position after receiving several requests and encouragements from clubs and associations that are affiliated to the TTASL.

Minister Rohana received approval from Sports and Recreation Minister Gamini Lokuge to contest for this position.

Chandana Perera, an Old Boy of St. John's College, Nugegoda and a Table Tennis Instructor of the Playgrounds and Recreation Department of Colombo Municipal Council was also elected uncontested as the General Secretary of the TTASL. Chandana, a former President of the TTASL from 1995 to 1997 and its General Secretary in many years who recently celebrated 25 years as an administrator of the sport serving in various capacities and heading various committees. Chandana is also a Level 1 ITTF coach and has been a longstanding member of the National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka as the representative for TT whenever he was holding office with the TTASL.

Under his Presidency the game of Table Tennis spread all over the Island specially in Kurunegala, Kegalle, Ratnapura, Galle and Matara where the game was not competitively played before. He also Promoted Table Tennis in the districts of Trincomalee, Ampara, Batticaloa in 2008 together with Dietmar Doering who is the Chairman of the Asian German Sports Exchange Program.

All the Office-bearers and Executive Committee were elected uncontested, which is seen as a good sign and indicates that the election of office-bearers to the helm of the sport was made unanimously by the affiliated clubs and associations and have received its support from previous office-bearers.