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WP/HO/Bope Rajasinghe Secondary School Upgraded

Bope village is a beautiful, agricultural as well as a remote area in the District of Colombo with a low economic level and lot of challenges. This school was opened as a small school in 1869 to provide education to the children of the area. This school is the only such institution for children of Udagama Angampitiya, Dambora, Pahala Bope, Ihala Bope, Halpewatta, Ayarwatta, Uggalla, Weragala, Miriyagalla, Mahingala, Arakawila, Kandinapitiya, Udagama Kanda, Boralu Tenna, Gurulaana, Labugama, Siyambalawala, Thummodara and Wewila, etc., villages.

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After 142 years of opening of this school, attention was made to make this a fully complete secondary school under the establishment of 1000 secondary schools project of the Mahinda Chintana Forward Vision Rejuvenating Programme is the belief that all the facilities enjoyed by the urban children should also be provided to rural children without any differences with this in mind WP/HO/Bope Rajasinghe Maha Vidyalaya along with the children of WP/HO/Dambora Primary School, WP/HO/Udagama Primary School, WP/HO/Akaraawila Primary School and WP/HO/Kandaanapitiya Primary School, which are Lamaa Mithuru Primary Schools, have seen massive development during last few years, inheriting brighter students to the nation.

Under the guidance of HE President Mahinda Rajapaksa this school was provided with a 03 storeyed building complex consisting of an Administrative Unit, Advanced Level, and Ordinary Level laboratories along with all other educational and sanitary facilities making it a fully complete school.

The investment for this was around Rs. 40 Million made under the education for a Knowledge Society Project of the Ministry of Education.

The student strength at present is 648 and has earned a name for herself as a prestigious educational institution with achievements made in several spheres including sports, dancing, music, debating, music band, language competitions, etc., in provincial and other levels in years 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2012.

Rajasinghe Maha Vidyalaya, will be handed over to the children of the nation as a fully complete secondary school on 01st of October 2012 by President Mahinda Rajapakse which was made under the programme to offer to the nation 5000 feeding primary schools and fully complete secondary schools by the Ministry of Education under the guidance of Minister of Education, Bandula Gunawardana. Parallel to this, marking the opening of the 1000 secondary schools, the 409 Mahindodaya Technical Laboratories will also be commenced.

The wish of the Ministry of Education and the Western Provincial Ministry of Education is that the children of Rajasinghe Maha Vidyalaya of Bope, Padukka will make use of these facilities and become entrepreneurs, intellectuals, leaders and thinkers of the future.

The concept of Mahindodaya Technical Educational Institutions which is offered to all the children of the country like the children of Bope, will no doubt offer an active contribution to make Sri Lanka, the Miracle of Asia, a reality.

Anura Dissanayake - Additional Secretary
(School Supplies, Services and Constructions)
on behalf of the Secretary of
Education, Ministry of Education.