The Minister of Education Professor G.L. Peiris said that when identified the people who are deprived of privileges and missed the opportunities to come forward and given opportunities for them, they will achieve successful results and the policy of the government is to eyewitness the problems of people in villages and to provide solutions for

The ministry of education has prohibited engaging the school children for the programs organized with health risks contacting with the outside people and the programs such as processions, vehicle parades and concerts held gathering the children in large numbers outside of the school premises.   However, this prohibition is not relevant to the co-curricular activities organized

The secretary of education Professor Kapila Perera has instructed all provincial, zonal and divisional education authorities and the heads of Pirivenas and the principals to stop holding march-pasts, musical band shows and concerts etc. in the schools except co-curricular activities and extra-curricular activities which are relevant to the educational quality development of the children although