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Kotagala Teachers Training College links to CWC and S. Thondaman

Patana group correspondent

It is the CWC and its late leader S. Thondaman who contributed immensely for building of Kotagala Teachers Training College, said Housing and Plantation Infrastructure Minister Arumugan Thondaman addressing the gathering after ceremonially opening the new building at Kotagala Teachers Training College at Kotagala.

The opening ceremony was presided over by the College President S. Jeyakumar and Education Minister Central Province V. Radhakrishnan, members of the Central Provincial Council, Nuwara Eliya Pradeshiya Sabha and the former Presidents of the College S. Muralidaran and Miss Parameswari and other distinguished guests were present. Minister Arumugan Thondaman said that some claim that it is they who funded this construction which is a farce, but it is the late leader S. Thondaman who allocated ten acres of land followed up by the funding of my infrastructure ministry.

Similarly my ministry had contributed for construction of many development works including the building of the Ramboda Cultural Hall and the International playground at Norwood.

He said that he had discussed with the government to fill the vacancies for 4,500 teachers in the plantation schools and had even demanded for quota on the ethnic ratio basis, when recruitments are made for govt. jobs, enabling to reduce the unemployment problem among youths.

He also said that he hoped to invite qualified teachers from India to teach Maths and Science for A/L classes in the plantation schools and would try to set up a better hospital in the N'Eliya region with the assistance of India.

CP Minister V. Radhakrishnan stressed in his speech that we cannot deny the fact that the level of education in the plantation sector had considerably increased over the past 25 years. Yet we are lagging in Maths and Science which would be solved during the next ten years. Minister Radhakrishnan ceremonially opened a model school centre built at a cost of Rupees 20 lakhs.

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