NGOs influence our education system in subtle ways – PM

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) – Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said yesterday that foreign-funded NGOs had influenced our education system in subtle ways and the country needs to be ‘very vigilant’ with regard to what is inculcated in the minds of school children.

He said he heard some leading academic Bhikkus explaining how school textbooks now had content that would corrupt young minds.

“An organisation explained how some school textbooks have depicted the northern and eastern provinces of Sri Lanka as one province. It was also said that the Sinhala New Year had been dropped from some school textbooks,” he said.

He made these remarks at the National Dhamma School Convention and Awards Ceremony held at Irattaperiyakulam in Vavuniya on 27 December 2019.