A ceremony to felicitate college students who achieved excellent ends in the 2023/2024 GCE Superior Stage Examination, beneath the President’s Fund programme for honouring excessive achievers, was held this morning (02) on the Badulla Library Auditorium, beneath the patronage of Speaker Jagath Wickramaratne.
At this occasion, 240 college students from the Badulla and Monaragala Districts who ranked between 1st and tenth place in six topic streams on the GCE Superior Stage examinations of 2023 and 2024 acquired certificates of appreciation and incentive awards of Rs. 100,000 every. A complete of Rs. 24 million from the President’s Fund has been allotted for this function.
Senior Extra Secretary to the President and Secretary of the President’s Fund, Mr Roshan Gamage, delivered the welcome speech and defined the goals of the programme.
Addressing the gathering, Speaker Jagath Wickramaratne acknowledged that the current authorities is making a big funding in training, emphasising that nothing is extra beneficial for a nation’s future than funding in training. He additional stated that if kids contribute to the nation by way of the information they acquire, the federal government’s funding will actually profit the nation.
“We wish you to change into educated and clever. A clever particular person won’t ever construct an atomic bomb. If an informed particular person engages in fraud, that training has no worth. In such a scenario, solely studying exists, not knowledge. Subsequently, should you use your training for the betterment of the nation, you’ll repay the nourishment and care your mother and father offered to boost you into who you’re in the present day,” the Speaker added.
Talking on the occasion, Minister of Plantation and Neighborhood Insfrastructure, Mr Samantha Vidyaratne, famous that the federal government is happy to assist programmes of this nature aimed toward strengthening the way forward for kids, in keeping with the brand new administration’s imaginative and prescient. The Minister additionally expressed gratitude to the President’s Fund for facilitating this initiative.
He additional defined that the President’s Fund was established to offer aid to these affected by poverty and to construct a brighter future for the kids of the nation by way of training. The current authorities has taken measures to function the President’s Fund in a extra structured and decentralised method in order that certified beneficiaries on the regional degree now obtain its assist.
In the meantime, a particular one-day coaching programme aimed toward decentralising the actions of the President’s Fund was carried out yesterday (01) on the Badulla District Secretariat for officers in cost from all Divisional Secretariats within the Uva Province.
Deputy Minister of Tourism Professor Ruwan Ranasinghe, Members of Parliament Sudath Balagalla and Lawyer-at-Regulation Sarath Kumara, Mayor of Badulla Nandana Kelumsiri Hapugoda, Chief Secretary of the Uva Province Anusha Gokula Perera, Secretary to the Uva Schooling Ministry Nihal Gunaratne, District Secretary of Badulla Panduka Sri Prabath Aberathna, District Secretary of Monaragala A. G. Nishantha, together with authorities officers, scholarship recipients and their mother and father have been current on the event.
