CSD provides exercise books for children

Ridma DISSANAYAKE

The Civil Security Department (CSD) handed over school exercise books worth Rs.9 million to the children of Civil Security Department personnel who were handicapped or who sacrificed their lives during the humanitarian operations under the patronage of First Lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa. Exercise books needed for school students for 2012 from grade one to grade 12 were granted free. The Civil Security Department granted books for 27,450 students.

Four students who received best results at the grade five scholarship examination, three students who received best results at the 2010 G.C.E.Ordinary Level examination and two students who received best results at the 2010 G.C.E. Advanced Level examination and qualified to enter the University were granted scholarships under Suwa Saviya

The donations were granted by the Sewa Vanitha Unit of the Civil Security Department on the direction of Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, as a measure of welfare for the war heroes.

Civil Security Department Director General Rear Admiral Ananda Peris and Department's Sewa Vanitha Unit Chairperson Kumuduni Peris also participated.