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Colombo, March 25 (Daily Mirror) - "People in our country have a very short memory. I don't blame history. If we bear the present responsibility, we will fulfill that responsibility to the best of our ability," Education Minister Susil Premajayantha said.
While marking the beginning of the 2024 school meal programme held today (25) at the Sujatha Girls’ College in Narahenpita, the Minister said the majority of the people in the country blame the past. They always claim that nothing had happened during the past 70 years.
"We benefited from the results of the activities in the past 70 years. If we did not implement the Mahaweli Development Programme, the whole country will be in the dark now. From the Mahaweli Development Programme 1,100 MW of electricity is generated. If we had not constructed the expressways, we will not be able to reach Galle, Matara and Kataragama in one, two or two-and-a-half hours. If the war was still being waged, then no one will be able to gather like this and will not even have a chance to walk freely. No one came to Colombo like this," he said.
"However, people have a very short memory of the past. I do not blame the past. If we bear the present responsibility, then we will fulfill that responsibility to the best of our ability," Minister Premajayantha said.
"Before 20 months, when I assumed duties as the Minister, I never believed that I will be able to develop the education system to this stage. I did not know how to provide textbooks due to the lack of printing paper. No proper mechanism existed to provide school uniform materials. The teachers were even unable to come for paper marking activities as they had to wait in queues for fuel. The students did not have power for their studies due to 4-hour power disruptions. Now we have a 24-hour power supply, even during this hot weather.
"However, in the past 20 months, I have managed to overcome all issues, but most people have forgotten the past and what we have done.
"I brought this education system to this stage in 20 months. These days, people visit schools and deliver political speeches. But I speak only about my subject," the Minister added.
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OUR NEIGHBOR TAMILNADU Tuesday, 26 March 2024 12:34 AM
40 YEARS BEFORE THE NUTRITION PROGRAM WAS BROUGHT IN TAMILNADU BY CHIEF MINISTER M G R..
Vagabond Tuesday, 26 March 2024 01:18 AM
If you don't blame history, that means you are supporting the crooks who stole the cheese for 75 years.
m Tuesday, 26 March 2024 12:57 AM
Stop your nonsense about 20 months. You wanted that seat to deliver.... therefore, just shut up and just deliver what people expect of you and your other moron buddies.
Caesar Tuesday, 26 March 2024 01:58 AM
Minister - because the public have short memories they seem to keep electing corrupt parliamentarians like yourself again and again. Consequently, they have been robbed of all their belonging including the cloths on their back by 'all all honourable people like yourself'!
Ram Tuesday, 26 March 2024 02:58 AM
This Minister talks about the highways project where people can travel distances in double quick time. Were the tender/s awarded to the lowest bidder or were they given to contractors who paid Raja family commission
Greedy Politicians are the cause Tuesday, 26 March 2024 05:48 AM
The issue is there is so much corruption and high perks politicians are enjoying even when country is in this crisis. The people need to pay for this corruption by increasing taxes and price hikes on the cost of living. We just want to have a fair playing field. You don’t feel it as everything is provided for your existence using loans or taxes.
Voter Tuesday, 26 March 2024 07:17 AM
But we can't forget the looting of the treasury which has brought the nation to such level.
Anura Jayantha Tuesday, 26 March 2024 07:55 AM
You have held so many portfolios under many governments..look at yourself talking about responsibility..nobody blames past..blame yourselves !
Suhada malli Tuesday, 26 March 2024 08:36 AM
Minister Premajayanth, We appreciate the good work been done. However in a country where Ration books (1970's), Janasaviya (1980's), Samurdhi (2000's) and now Aswesuma (2024) has not reduced the citizens in poverty treshhold even after giving free education for tertiary and higher education (universities), we have a problem. When we have a job market to which the universities are not catering, we have a problem. When we lack innovation to patent our own inventions and later commercalise them we have a problem. Please prepare a Long term (24 years) education policy framework, and a short term (5 year) education development plan and share it with the citizens.
Focus on the core responsibilities Tuesday, 26 March 2024 08:42 AM
Sri Lankan Universities such as Moratuwa and Peradeniya were top 100 ranking universities of the world 35 years ago. Today they are ranked in the top 1500 to 1,800 universities in some rankings. University students and lectures, professors seems to have spent too much time doing politics (JVP, Peratugami types) and failed to maintain their standards. Today whole country is losing as a result.
Nobody Tuesday, 26 March 2024 09:09 AM
A great statement with deep meaning. Well said and I believe he is one politician who has delivered instead of merely talking.
Asanga Tuesday, 26 March 2024 09:51 AM
We have never forgotten how your predecessors instigated racial hatred and waged a war upon us and deprived Sri Lanka of better faster developments. We have never forgotten how you again tried to divide communities by orchestrating racial hatred in 2019 Presidential Campaign...We have never forgotten how you bunch bankrupted the country in 2022..... the list can go on and on....
Seeya Tuesday, 26 March 2024 10:22 AM
So everything fell into place due to your vision for education including power, infrastructure? Lately all these guys are praising their own tails.
FredSnR Tuesday, 26 March 2024 12:59 PM
Re Mahaweli should do a cost benefit analysis we are speaking here only of the benefits but the cost was huge as they were capital intensive projects .In my view it led to massive inflation which benefited those with assets, primarily the land owning class as the prices of assets they own went up in price and impoverished the rest (the consumer ) the average man, through the rise in prices.Created also a consumerist class dependent on imported goods which the country could not afford and did not produce Middle class disappeared or left.Constructing the highways was good but what about the cost that is equally important. no financial discipline in SL, just borrow, spend,print money, check the annual budget deficits
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