Regarding the Issue of the Grade 5 Scholarship Examination

Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya held a special discussion today (26.09.2024) with officials from the Ministry of Education regarding the problematic situation concerning the leakage of some questions from the Grade 5 scholarship examination, which was held on 15.09.2024.

The Ministry of Education has informed that the following actions have been taken:

The Department of Examinations, Sri Lanka, has conducted a preliminary internal investigation and submitted a report to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) regarding the officers suspected to be involved in the incident. Consequently, the CID has initiated an investigation an MORE >>

ශිෂ්‍යත්ව ප්‍රශ්න පත්‍රයේ පිටවූ ප්‍රශ්න පිලිබඳ ස්වාධීන වාර්ථාවක් වහාම අවශ්‍යයි.

මෙතෙක් ප්‍රමාද වූ සියළු විභාග ප්‍රතිඵල කඩිනමින් නිකුත් කරන්නැයි විභාග දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට අගමැතිනියගෙන් උපදෙස්.

දේශපාලකයින් පාසල් උත්සව වලට ගෙන්වීම වහාම නතර කරන්න.

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A country cannot be built without the people’s confidence in the law, public service, and political authority.

Building an efficient public service is our goal.

Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya emphasized the need to work together for a public-oriented government service that avoids misusing public resources. The Prime Minister made these remarks during a meeting with officials at the Prime Minister’s Office at Flower Road, Colombo, this morning (25th).

Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya further commented:

"We must understand that the President was not elected in just another presidential election. This election took place after a struggle against the previous g MORE >>

She is the first woman in South Asia to rise to the position of Prime Minister without coming from a political family.

Prime Minister Amarasuriya stated that the current government is ready to bring about the change the people expect and called for everyone’s commitment and support to achieve it.

Meanwhile, the newly appointed Secretary to the Prime Minister, Mr. G. Pradeep Saputantri, also commenced his duties at the Prime Minister’s Secretariat.

Prime Minister’s Additional Secretaries Harsha Wijewardene, Mahinda Gunaratne, Senior Assistant Secretary D. Mashanka H. Liyanage, and a group of officials from the Prime Minister’s Office participated in the event.

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