'Education alone could uplift plantation sector'

P Rajaratnam in Nuwara Eliya

Education alone will uplift estate children in the future. Therefore the student population in the plantation sector should strive towards achieving success in education, Parliamentarian and Ceylon Workers' Congress Vice President P Rajadurai said.

Rajadurai gifted musical instruments needed for the school band valued at over Rs 200,000 to the Pedro Tamil School in Nuwara Eliya.

He said he himself who is from a plantation worker family rose to the present position by becoming an Attorney-at-Law and a Parliamentarian, through attainments in the fields of education and learning.

Rajadurai said today one could see many new faces emerging from different parts of the country, merely towards getting the plantation workers votes, but the fact remains, all the achievements of the estate workers to their present position were all due to the sacrifices made by the late leader Saumiyamoorthy Thondaman and the Ceylon Workers' Congress, he said.

Rajadurai said the present government under the leadership of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, is all out to provide maximum education to plantation children to be on a par with the rest of the student population in the country.

Hence, he requested the estate children to make the best use of such vast facilities and achieve their goals and targets. He also requested the teachers in the plantation sector to give their maximum efforts towards educating students in the wider and larger interest of the plantation sector.

Principal K Rajan thanked MP for the valuable gifts provided to the school.