The Hon. Chamara Sampath Dasanayake

¶ 01 Hon. Speaker, my second supplementary is this. This issue also arose recently at COPA with Treasury officials present. If there are 4,000 vacancies, grant a special mark to these 2,900 acting principals and deliver justice. If you only recruit from the Education Administrative Service, these acting principals will be stranded. They trusted your Government. Those unions supported you greatly.

¶ 02 Therefore, within the 4,000 vacancies, deliver justice to the 2,900 acting principals by awarding special marks. Administrative recruits tend to seek national schools and large urban schools; acting principals are serving in hard-to-reach schools with small student numbers, like in Mahiyanganaya and Dambana areas. Administrative recruits will avoid such postings and opt for category 1–3 large schools. This is a fairness issue for border villages and peripheral areas in districts like Anuradhapura as well.