title: Vinayagapuram, Sri Lanka
text: # Vinayagapuram, Sri Lanka
  
  Vinayagapuram (Tamil: விநாயகபுரம்) is a Tamil village in the Thirukkovil Divisional Secretariat Division of the Ampara District in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka. In the early days, all the land that was once a coastal land was ceded to the state and distributed to the landless in 1959. The village was named Vinayagapuram in 1962 as a settlement village.
  
  ## Schools
  
  * Parameshwara Vidyalayam
  * Shakthy Vidyalayam
  * Kanishda Vidyalayam
  * Vinayagapuram Madhya Maha Vidyalayam
  