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The Hon. Mahinda Jayasinghe – Deputy Minister

25 November 2025 ·Debate: Debate: Committee Stage on Appropriation Bill 2026 - Ministry of Education, Higher Education and Vocational Education (Fifteenth Allotted Day)

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Mahinda Jayasinghe corrected a statement made by Kabir Hashim regarding his intervention in a Western Provincial Council education matter. He said the Provincial Education Secretary had issued a letter barring teachers from conducting tuition classes for their own students, but he intervened because no law prohibits such tutoring and requested that the letter be withdrawn.

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¶ 01 Hon. Presiding Member, Hon. Kabir Hashim mentioned my name and made an incorrect statement. I need a brief moment to correct it. The Secretary of Education of the Western Provincial Council issued a letter last year informing teachers not to conduct tuition classes for their own students. I intervened because there is no law in the country prohibiting teachers from tutoring their own class students. Many provinces focused on this in error. I asked that the letter be withdrawn. The Hon. Member’s statement was incorrect; I wished to correct the record.

¶ 02 Thank you.

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Hansard, Tuesday, 25 November 2025 ·No. 22979 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Mahinda Jayasinghe – Deputy Minister. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 25 November 2025. No. 22979. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/16677