Report on Muslim Education

Education Minister Susil Premajayantha received the report on Muslim Education conducted after 60 years. He said it would be presented to the National Education Commission for making policy decisions.

The Minister made this revelation at a ceremony held yesterday at the Education Ministry auditorium where he received the committee report on Muslim Education.

Minister Premajayantha said that this committee report was made possible following recommendation by the President to the Ministry of Education to submit a report on the matter and added that he was able to improve the educational and resource level of the Muslim schools in the recent past.

"When the LTTE chased away nearly 70,000 Muslims during 1992/93 period from the North, they came to Kalpitiya where the Muslim schools became short of teachers for these students. Then, we provided 480 teachers as teacher assistants and made efforts to upgrade their educational level there," the Minister said.

"None of the Muslim schools in the Southern Province had science or maths streams. I solved this by appointing 10 science graduates," the Minister said.