In the next five years, digital technology will overwhelm the entire country.
The Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena mentioned that, digital technology will overwhelm the entire country in the next five years and our school education system should change as a digital foundation for the classroom on 04.12.2023 at the occasion of handing over the new building of Sri Siddhartha Kanishta Vidyalaya, Kaluaggala to the students.
Speaking on this occasion the Prime Minister stated that-
Digital technology will overwhelm the entire country within next five years. During that time, education and the classroom are changing very rapidly. Therefore, we consider it as a very important step for everyone to support us in arranging these activities in these areas in a way that we can lay a foundation for it.
Today, there are about ten thousand schools in Sri Lanka as Government schools. Our country needs leadership to continuously produce a generation of teachers who can increase the quality of education and impart it’s benefits more effectively. Let’s go through a process of transforming this program into such an advanced standard.
We spent the last year in a very difficult situation. Now we have revived the economy. Schools are being revived one by one in a way to move forward. Advancement in the field of education is the greatest strength for our children. Parents think that it is the greatest resource.
Thanks for young MP,Mr. Yadamini Gunawardena, for the special interest in the efforts to impart new knowledge and information technology to the rural schools, and as a result, this school also got the opportunity to join the chain of new knowledge. In the future, we hope that our children will take advantage of that and move forward in the field of information technology, which has become a major factor in this new challenge.
It is remarkable that this college, which was initiated by Boralugoda Ralahami more than a century ago, has been able to run continuously until now. The support of the parents, as well as the support and leadership of the founders and the support of the political public representatives have lead to the success of it. The school is more proud of how many children have studied here and gone out to serve the country and society than to mention the number of years that have come since the day of inception. Many generations have passed out from Boralugoda Vidyalaya in this way.
Our Boralugoda temple and school were having a mutual bond. It had transformed into a school where the villagers could benefit from it. Our grandfather, lawyer Harry Gunawardena, was the first to register in this school by Boralugoda Ralahami. Along with that came Philip Gunawardena, our father. Now there is Mr. Ranjith Gunawardena. Beloved son of Mr. Harry Gunawardena. Further, as the children of Mr. Philip Gunawardena, myself and Mr. Githanjana, as well as the grandson, Mr. Yadamini Gunawardena, we have been able to provide constant support to this school. The teaching staff should have the ability to provide the knowledge expected by the children of the school. It is on that basis that the development of a school becomes stronger.
Boralugoda Sri Vardhanaramadhipati Venerable Hevelwala Gnanananda Thera and the Maha Sangha, Western Provincial Governor Roshan Gunathilaka, Member of Parliament Yadamini Gunawardena, former Minister Geetanjana Gunawardena, Western Provincial Council Secretary Pradeep Yasaratne, teachers, parents and the public participated for this event.
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