Cabinet nod for another 400 Mahindodaya Technical Labs

Ridma Dissanayake

Cabinet approval has been granted to establish another 400 Mahindodaya Technical Laboratories in secondary schools, Education Minister Bandula Gunawardena said yesterday.
Four hundred and nine Mahindodaya Technical Laboratories have been set up islandwide to provide equal educational opportunities for children in urban areas and villages by enhancing facilities in government schools, he said.

The minister was addressing a workshop on ‘Teaching and Learning through the eyes of Japanese volunteers at the BMICH yesterday. The Education Ministry implemented a programme to set up 1,000 secondary schools countrywide parallel to the Mahinda Chinthana National Programme which aims to remove the popular schools concept and provide schools with facilities. The schools are equipped with a science laboratory, mathematics laboratory, language laboratory, distance education unit and an information and communication laboratory, Minister Gunawardena said.