Steady progress in rehabilitation

A special programme for ‘catch up education’ was provided in collaboration with the Education Ministry for young adults in rehabilitation. Forty six different vocational training courses were also provided to the beneficiaries. These courses were centred on many different fields, including agriculture, industry,

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Socio-economic scene

The decline of watalappam

‘At Colombo’, wrote FJ Wayman in the ‘West Australian’ in 1905, ‘not only does the West meet the East, but it may, with almost equal truth, be said that the North meets the South. There is no port of call in the world... where so many people belonging to so many nationalities can become across.’

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The history of the Kapilavastupura Relics

Prince Siddhartha Gautama Buddha Shakyamuni's birth place is Lumbini Gardens. It is located near Kapilavastu, in what is now Southern Nepal. In Lumbini, there is a stone column that Emperor Ashoka had erected commemorating the occasion of his pilgrimage in the year 249 BC.

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