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The Students' Council of the Higher National Diploma in Engineering Institute approached Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapakse on January 29 seeking his intervention to solve their many problems, states a media release from the Opposition Leader's Media Unit on Friday. The shortage of lecturers, a scarcity of resources in laboratories and workshops and inadequacy of computers, libraries and lecture-rooms took prominence among their many grievances. Their representations to find redress on all previous occasions have fallen on deaf years and even when they approached the Tertiary Education Ministry to hand over a petition to Minister Kabir Hashim on January 29, they were told that the Minister was not available and that they had to hand over the petition to the Ministry Secretary, stated the students' delegation. The Opposition Leader having listened to the Students' Council delegation, expressed concern over their grievances and observed that it is a national tragedy to allow the institutions of this importance to collapse at a time when the need for tertiary education is felt more and more. The Opposition Leader promised to bring these grievances to the attention of Minister Hasheem to obtain an interview with the Students' Council. He also promised to brief the President about the situation. |
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