President assures a skill for life, a livelihood for a skill

President Mahinda Rajapaksa assured to further protect and consolidate the educational rights of children in the north, in the unfortunate circumstances where children were provided guns by Prabhakaran, instead of books.

President Rajapakse has underlined that it is opportune to eliminate terrorism from the world as the terrorist is a terrorist, where ever he lived.

The President observed the terrorists were still arming the youths of the North, when attempts were in progress to grant vocational training to the youths of the country.

Democracy had to be enthroned for this purpose. It will not be possible to fulfill this task until terrorism prevailed. The country should be liberated from the terrorists. This, he added was why a systematic operation was in progress in the North.

The President was honouring ceremony to declare open the Vocational Training Centre in Tangalle. USAID spent over 85 million rupees on the centre.

Action was being initiated to set up five centres in the East after once democracy is stabilized there.

Ministers Chamal Rajapakse, Mahinda Ranaweera and U S Ambassador Robert Blake were present.

Courtesy : Lankapuvath