Make best use of technology - Water Supply Minister

Nadira Gunatilleke

The time you spend in school will never come back to you. Therefore, make the best out of it. Make the maximum use of your time in school and study well. You will then become a Pearl of Mother Lanka.

Do not regret about a second you spent in school, said Water Supply and Drainage Minister Dinesh Gunawardena.The Minister was addressing the Prefects' Day at Buwanekaba Maha Vidyalaya, Maharagama.

Minister Gunawardena said the children of today have many more facilities which they can make use of. Children must make the best out of the technological advancements. Minister Gunawardena pointed out that neither school teachers nor politicians can idle today because of the advancement of Information Technology (IT).

All have to be armed with IT today to go forward with the rest of the world.

Otherwise, schoolchildren and all the others will question about the capabilities and the knowledge on IT of adults. If we do not advance with IT at the same speed as the rest of the world, we will go backward speedily.

Today we can get informed about an incident that takes place at the other end of the world the moment it happens. We have to progress with a knowledge of IT without losing our cultural values and social ethics, Minister Gunawardena stressed.