380,000 STUDENTS WITHOUTUNIFORMS

Some 380,000 students attending government schools have still not been issued their school uniforms and if the government fails to do so, parents would have to spend their own money to buy the uniforms, the Ceylon Teachers Union said yesterday.

CTU secretary Joseph Stalin said the government had allocated Rs.1,660 million for school uniforms in the 2012 budget but the uniforms had not been issued yet.

“We complained to the Education Ministry but have still not received an adequate response,” he said.

Mr. Stalin said the government should have provided the school uniforms in December or January but there were no signs of re-

Some 380,000 students attending government schools have still not been issued their school uniforms and if the government fails to do so, parents would have to spend their own money to buy the uniforms Many of the children who attend government schools in the country are from underprivileged families and do not have the money to purchase their uniforms. The authorities will create severe difficulties for these children and their families if they do not receive the uniforms

JOSEPH STALIN

ceiving them.

“Many of the children who attend government schools in the country are from underprivileged families and do not have the money to purchase their uniforms. The authorities will create severe difficulties for these children and their families if they do not receive the uniforms,” he said. Mr. Stalin said the prob- lems were doubled or trebled especially for boys who did not wear shorts any longer and were expected to wear white trousers instead.

He said last year school uniforms were provided in October, some ten months after the school year began and that too was only after the matter was brought up in Parliament.