The re-housing option for Colombo’s poor
It is unfortunate that most of the Colombo
politicians are still exploiting the social vulnerability of
Colombo’s poor who live in underserved settlements. Such politicians
can depend on this vote bank as long as they remain in slums and
shanties as poor, particularly by the UNP. Hence, any attempts to
upgrade the housing and living environments of these people will be
severely resisted by the UNP and other communal minded politicians
who are enjoying the power at the cost of the future of the poorest
of the poor in Colombo.
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Opening of private medical faculties
By introducing the Z score criteria, the
authorities ensured reserving of a reasonable quota of the places
available in the local university system for the students from the
educationally backward districts. However, the fact remains that in
the medical field; annually the doors are shut for 9,000 odd
students who have minimum stipulated qualifications to enter the
medical faculties.
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