TN grads to fill in teaching vacancies in estate sector: Minister

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The Tamil Nadu (TN) government will send over one hundred Bachelor of Science (Bsc) degree holders to Sri Lanka to fill in teaching vacancies at Tamil medium schools in the estate sector, State Minister of Education V. Radhakrishnan said.

The Minister said the decision was made by the TN government in line with a request made by the Sri Lankan government. The proposal is to be discussed further during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit this week.

The proposal was made by the government to the Indian High Commissioner in Sri Lanka to bring down over one hundred Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree holders from Tamil Nadu to fill in vacancies for Tamil medium teachers in estate schools, he said.

Speaking to Daily Mirror, the Minister said there were 844 estate schools in the Central, Sabaragamuwa, Uva, Southern and Western provinces which had a scarcity of Tamil medium teachers for subjects such as science, mathematics and English.

“These are our people who fled the country in 1983/84 and who are now living in Tamil Nadu. We found many of their children are BSc degree holders. In addition to them, the Tamil Nadu government has agreed to send additional teachers to fill in these vacancies. They also promised to bear the cost of their salary. The government has to provide accommodation for the teachers,” he said.

State Minister Radhakrishnan said that Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had instructed him to resolve issues in the estate sector with the help of the Indian government.

Meanwhile, trade unions in the education sector criticized the State Minister’s move to seek BSc graduates from Tamil Nadu to fill in the vacancies. Ceylon Teachers Union (CTU) Secretary Joseph Stalin said the State Minister’s move to bring down teachers from Tamil Nadu was questionable.

“We are not against India. But there are large numbers of Tamil graduates in Ampara, Batticaloa and Jaffna who are demanding the government provide them with employment. The National Colleges in the country also have the authority to award a BSc degree under the 1987 National College Act number 30,” he said.

The vacancies could be filled in by increasing the number of Tamil students in the National Colleges and generating the Tamil Speaking Teacher population.

The graduates from the Northern and Eastern provinces were insufficient to fill in the vacancies and many were not BSc graduates, the State Minister countered. (Thilanka Kanakarathna)

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mohan Wednesday, 10 May 2017 10:11 AM

it's times to hire teacher attached to school instate national teaches. one side of the country we have unemployed graduate other side of vacancies .

d Wednesday, 10 May 2017 10:37 AM

bad move. still suffering because the estate workers the British brought. via DM iOS App

Appu Wednesday, 10 May 2017 10:41 AM

Not enough graduates in SL via DM Android App

Arnold Wednesday, 10 May 2017 10:50 AM

Very nice. Please open up other categories. Indians are much hardworking, dedicated and less costly.

Martin Milton Wednesday, 10 May 2017 11:18 AM

This is exactly what the various opposition groups warned the people of Sri Lanka about. The people of Sri Lanka are still apparently sleeping! Their country will slide into a Tamil Nadu State very soon unless they stop this stupid decision by the present GOSL! What a cheek on the part of this Minister. Soon these 'illegal immigrants' will jump up and down demanding citizenship and IF this present GOSL is STILL in power (Heaven help Sri Lanka if they are!) they will grant them just that to grab votes. An absolute shameless bunch of traitors. MM

daily boru Wednesday, 10 May 2017 01:51 PM

We need doctors from india. via DM Android App

Ganesh Wednesday, 10 May 2017 02:58 PM

The pity is the unemployed graduates are unemployable there are no science grads who can teach maths and science This is the wrong educational system which should be radically changed as job oriented .

vasudevan Wednesday, 10 May 2017 03:44 PM

GMOA are u all sleeping?

brainmaster Wednesday, 10 May 2017 04:06 PM

pls Mr.Modi bring also 2000 doctors via DM Android App

Punny Pellow Thursday, 11 May 2017 09:36 AM

The Teachers can go on strike now!!!

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