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Nimal WIJESINGHE Anuradhapura Additional District group correspondent

The Psycho Social Intervention and Counselling Unit of the Education Ministry has embarked on a leadership promotion program in the Anuradhapura district.

Arrangements are being made for conducting two student leadership training camps from October 19 to 21 and October 24 to 26 at the Educational Resource Centre in Anuradhapura. Two hundred female and male senior students representating 20 schools in the Anuradhapura district will participate at these two residential training camps.

Additional Provincial Education Director and Provincial Resources Centre Manager Laxman Dikkumbura said, students who are deemed to be unruly and mentally depressed as identified by the school guidance teachers and the psycho social in service advisors would be given priority in selecting students for the leadership training camp.

"We are deviating from the traditional pattern of referring school prefects and monitors for leadership and personality development training programs.

The backward type students should be encouraged to take up challenges and shape up as brilliant student members in their schools for others to follow them," Dikkumbura said. The participants will be trained in leadership personality development, how to face day-to-day challenges at the school and in society resolving conflicts, skills development etc. It has been decided to continue the training program covering 750 schools in the North Central Province.

The next training camp is scheduled to be held in Polonnaruwa shortly.