SL receive total school uniform fabric from China

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While completing the total of 70% of school uniform materials donated by the Chinese government, Education Minister Susil Premajayantha today accepted the remaining 40% of them at the ministry.

The final stock was donated by China's Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Qi Zhenhong at the Ministry.

On January 13, the government received 30% of the fabric, which were officially handed over to the minister by the acting Chinese Ambassador, Hu Wei.

He said the balance 40% of the school uniform materials were received, and thereby completing the 70% of the total school uniform fabric requirement for the year 2023.

Addressing the media, he said the total of 70% of school uniform materials for 4.1 million students have been unloaded and the distribution of the uniforms would begin in the next couple of days.

"We received a total volume of 8.86 million metres of school uniform fabric, with 70% as donation. The remaining 30% will be theough the Government's Treasury, thus make to total of 3.831 million meters," he said.

The first consignment of school uniform materials was distributed to remote areas including the Northern Province (Jaffna, Vavuniya, Mannar, Kilinochchi, and Mullaithivu), Eastern Province (Trincomalee, Batticaloa, and Ampara), Uva Province (Badulla and Moneragala), and North Central Province (Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa).

"Our target is to complete the distribution of all school uniform fabric with a variety of 23 cloth types among 4.1 million schoolchildren, including those in Pirivenas and Muslim schools, before March 24. The distribution of uniforms is handled by the cooperative sector. (Chaturanga Pradeep Samarawickrama)

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Apoi I Pone Wednesday, 08 March 2023 07:05 PM

Was it Dr Harsha de silva who spoke with pride about the iPhone having their components sourced from 19 countries? Sri Lanka too is becoming like an iPhone...Uniforms from China, Coal from Russia Eggs from India Rice from Myanmar Fuel from Nigeria Fertiliser from Germany, Tin Fish from Chille Sugar from Brasil, we export our Money to Uganda, women to Middle East, Men to Sudan and we have jobless paid govt employees on the street protesting after living at the expense of the tax payers money. Anyway Thank You China amidst our madness we have some support from ýou India Japan USA Australia.

Ex Srilankan Wednesday, 08 March 2023 09:05 PM

What’s the catch ??? Never ending shoving of gifts in advance of what ? Similar examples in many African countries. When will the “Sinhala” elite learn ? Vote wisely people vote wisely. If not your grandchildren will be begging for ever .

GHT Wednesday, 08 March 2023 11:45 PM

China is always Great in many ways helping Sri Lanka immensely. We are thankful to you CHINA and its kind people.

Punchi Thursday, 09 March 2023 10:52 AM

In my travels I met a Chinese man who said he studied in Australia and got permanent residency there. When he established that I was from our Buddhist foremost paradise, a conversation on India took place, this Chinese man made a squeezing action with his hand and said that China must surround and squeeze India. Now this China is complaining that they are being encircled by countries hostile to them - QUAD, ANZUS, Japan, South Korea, US alliances etc. Even the benefits they acquired in our paradise is strategically being slowly eroded by India and they may have conceded that we are a lost strategic benefit for them and therefore not willing to provide wholehearted support to us.

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