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| Tuesday, 9 March 2004 |
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The Mahapola Higher Education Scholarship Trust Fund (MTF) will re-launch the Mahapola Lottery. This has been made to widen the coverage of its scholarship and to engage in other charitable, educational, vocational and technical training activities in Sri Lanka, the Fund said in a press release yesterday. The Mahapola Lottery was first launched in 1980 with a vision to provide higher education to the large number of poor but talented children who abandon a higher educational career because of poverty. This idea to use the lottery as the means to collect money and use the proceeds to set up a fund to grant scholarships was conceived by the then Trade and Shipping Minister, Lalith Athulathmudali. The fund provides about 7,000 to 8,000 undergraduate scholarships per annum which amounts to more than 70% of the annual university admissions at present. Commenting on the re-launch of the Mahapola Lottery, Director General Mahapola Trust Fund, Shamila Perera said, "In the beginning there was the Mahapola which created the Mahapola Scholarships. Then the lottery was launched to raise funds for these scholarships. Mahapola Gnanadarshana was born later followed by Mahapola Gnanapradeepa, Mahapola Dharmayatra and the Mahapola Technical Training Institute in the Port of Colombo. "The revival of the Mahapola Lottery will herald a new era for lotteries bringing in the latest technology and expertise of international standards. However Mahapola will continue to represent the vision and philosophy of its founder Lalith Athulathmudali," she said. |
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