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Embilipitiya is a town and Urban council in Ratnapura District, Sri Lanka.
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Embilipitiya is a rapidly growing town in Ratnapura District in Sri Lanka. In 1970's it was a small town with two or three small boutiques.Under Udawalawe development project, Embilipitiya became a big town and currently it is one of towns in Sri Lanka where there is a modern infrastructure. During the 70's transportation to and from Embilipitiya was really bad. There were two or three busses from Embilipitiya to Ratnapura and there was no guarantee for daily running. However, the transportation system developed significantly and people now enjoy very efficient transport facilities. There are busses from Embilipitiya to Ratnapura and Colombo every five minutes and Embilipitiya bus station is one of the busiest in Southern and Sabaragamuwa region. Before 1970, Embilipitiya was one of the area where there was poor education facilities. However, Embilipitiya got excellent schools recently. Embilipitiya Central College is only school in Sabaragamuwa and Southern Srilanka whare there is a swimming pool. Newly established Embilipitiya technical college brought new hopes to school leavers in the area. Due to rapid development of education network in the area, Embilipitiya produced highly skilled and educated people to the country. Thousands of Doctors, Engineers, lawyers, post graduate scentists, university professors and also reputed sportsmen and sportswomen came from Embilipitiya. Embilipitya got branches of almost all private and public banks and also the town is served by number of supermarket chains. Embilipitiya became an urban council in 2006 and it is the only urban council in Srilanka to be promoted from village council and it is a one of four urban councils(Maharagama ,Kesbewa nd Hikkaduwa) which was established after colonial era.
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Coordinates: 06°20′38″N 80°50′56″E / 6.34389°N 80.84889°E / 6.34389; 80.84889
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