Rationalise free school textbook programme
In yesterday’s (12) edition of The Island was a front-page news report that the government intended to seek a loan from India to print school-text books for 2023.The distribution of school textbooks to all students free of charge is a short-sighted programme initiated by a government decades ago to obtain votes at the polls. (In fact, in the not too distant past, […]
Source: island.lk