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New Vocational Training Centre opened in Kegalle

A two-storeyed Vocational Training Centre costing Rs.7.2 million built at Ballapana, Kegalle, under the Tertiary Education Uplift Project was vested in the students at a ceremony attended by Skills Development, Vocational and Technical Education Minister Piyasena Gamage on Wednesday to afford an efficacious vocational training in keeping with the present day developments to the youth of the Kegalle District.

The Tertiary Education Uplift Project, implemented under the direction of President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga is a national programme financed by the Asian Development Bank and conducted under the Skills Development Project of the Ministry of Skills Development, Vocational and Technical Education.

The newly opened vocational training centre is capable of training approximately 1,500 students a year with educational facilities to follow courses of training in information technology, electrical technology, jewellery craftsmanship, air-conditioning, motor mechanism, welding, plumbing, driving and refrigeration.

Opening the Centre Minister Piyasena Gamage observed that vocational training has become a lucrative business in the private sector today while that field declined in the State sector and this programme was initiated by President Kumaratunga to revive it by way of fulfilling a responsibility of the State.

Finance Deputy Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya addressing the gathering said that the intervention of President Kumaratunga to revive the activities of the Vocational Training Authority under the PA Government in 1994 was an important step towards the future of the youth in this country.

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