Dy Minister tells Rajarata youth:

‘Forget not your parents who sweated and toiled for you’

Nimal Wijesinghe Anuradhapura Additional District Group Corr

Youth Affairs and Skills Development deputy Minister Duminda Dissanayake appealed to the students not to forget their parents who sweated and worked round the clock in canals and paddy fields to help their children reach higher positions by sending them to universities. He said leadership and personality development programmes will be strengthened in future to mould physically and mentally strong graduates to take up the management and administration responsibilities of the country.

“The majority of university entrants in the North Central Province are from low income group farmer families. To witness locally and internationally renowned professionals who are products of rural schools in the Rajarata, contribute to the development of the motherland is a pleasure. One is not expected to join extremist groups in universities, but become future intellectuals” the deputy Minister said at the Mahapola Higher Education Scholarships handing over ceremony held at the Anuradhapura CTC auditorium.

On this occasion, 410 - 2010/2011 university entrants from the Anuradhapura district were awarded Mahapola scholarship documents.

The deputy Minister said President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s revolutionary educational policies remedied the deteriorating position of the university network and revived the prestigious level that once prevailed.

Anuradhapura Government Agent Mahinda Seneviratne was also present at the occasion.