Pallekele housewife wins luxury house in Seylan Bank's Thagi Pita Thagi Draw

Achala Nakkawita of Pallekele, became the lucky winner of the coveted Rs. 15 million super luxury house in the Seylan Thagi Pita Thagi grand draw.

Together with her husband Harsha and baby daughter Tharuki, she symbolically received the keys to her new house from Chairman, Seylan Bank Mohan Pieris PC, at a glittering ceremony at the Cinnamon Grand Hotel in Colombo, which was attended by the senior management of the bank, the final draw winners and previous five monthly millionaire winners.

Chairman Seylan Bank Mohan Pieris PC, symbolically hands over the key to the house worth Rs. 15 million to the winner of the Seylan Thagi Pita Thagi grand draw Mrs. Achala Nakkawita. Seylan Bank’s General Manager/CEO Kapila Ariyaratne is also in picture

An emotional and delighted Mrs. Nakkawita said that she initially felt no emotion the moment the news was broken to her by the Seylan Bank officials. "I was stunned for a few moments and felt nothing. It was then that the reality dawned on me.

The feeling was unbelievable. Of course I had heard of Thagi Pita Thagi since its launch in October last year but I never thought I would win the grand prize, leave alone even one of the many other prizes offered by Seylan".

"I am absolutely delighted that by saving in Seylan Bank I got the opportunity of winning the biggest prize that anyone can ever dream of.

All my family savings and investments will henceforth be with Seylan and I am specially going to open a Seylan Tikiri Plus Account for my new born child's future. I also invite everyone to join the growing Seylan family and thereby be a part of a winning team", she added.

Achala Nakkawita was a former staffer at an insurance company and later a Montessori Teacher while her husband is also attached to an insurance company in Kandy.

They both have Savings Accounts with Seylan Bank. "We've been banking with Seylan Bank for many years due to its superlative service and the confidence we have in it.

As I keep telling everyone, it is undoubtedly the best bank and certainly the Bank with a Heart", she said.

Acclaimed as the most innovative rewards scheme in contemporary banking history in Sri Lanka, Seylan Thagi Pita Thagi had one of the most unique prize schemes offered by any Bank and was linked to eight of Seylan's banking products thus offering the highest number of winning chances to its customers.

Over these past six months Seylan Thagi Pita Thagi has created six millionaires and has meaningfully touched the lives of nearly sixteen thousand Sri Lankans from all parts of the country with a variety of prizes.

Seylan Thagi Pita Thagi went several steps further and offered gifts over and above the customary gift scheme on offer for their account holders and customers, thus taking the concept of rewards to a totally different platform which was connoted in the brand name 'Seylan Thagi Pita Thagi'.

With the highest number of qualifying products ever, 'Seylan Thagi Pita Thagi' also had 20 guaranteed monthly consolation winners (branch wise) in addition to the other lucky monthly winners.

Seylan Bank Chairman Mohan Pieris PC, "As we reach Seylan Thagi Pita Thagi's grand finale, we are happy to have brought about a significant and meaningful change in the lives of many citizens in this country.

Apart from the six millionaires who were created, thousands of others benefited through the gift scheme during these past six months. We're delighted to note that Seylan Thagi Pita Thagi has not only blazed a trail in Sri Lanka's banking industry but has also rewarded so many Sri Lankans across the country".

Seylan Bank's General Manager/CEO, Kapila Ariyaratne said, Seylan Thagi Pita Thagi was yet another example of our commitment to constantly deliver greater value to our customers by focusing on more innovative value propositions.

We are extremely gratified that this rewards scheme rapidly became one of the most popular and sought after propositions in the financial services industry. As always we are fully committed to serve our thousands of customers across Sri Lanka and we invite all Sri Lankans to share the benefits of being part of the ever growing Seylan family".