Hon. Ravi Karunanayake
Hon. Ravi Karunanayake asked the Prime Minister and Minister of Education to provide district-wise data on National and provincial schools, including numbers of teachers and principals, salary expenditure, and the average teacher salary. He also requested information on teacher shortages and vacancy-filling timelines, details of schools with fewer than 100 students by district, and figures for Grade 1 admissions over the past five years with projections for the next five years.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Question to the Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Higher Education and Vocational Education:
¶ 02 (a) Will she inform this House the: (i) number of National and provincial schools in each district, separately; (ii) total number of teachers and principals serving in those schools; (iii) total monthly and annual expenditure on salaries and emoluments for those teachers and principals, separately; and (iv) average monthly salary of a government teacher?
¶ 03 (b) Will she also inform this House: (i) whether there is a shortage of teachers in government schools; (ii) if so, the timeline for filling those vacancies; (iii) the number of schools with less than 100 students; and (iv) the names of such schools, categorized by district?
¶ 04 (c) Will she further inform this House, separately, the: (i) number of students admitted to Grade 1 in government schools over the past five years; and (ii) projected number of Grade 1 admissions for the next five years?
¶ 05 (d) If not, why?
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Cite as: Hon. Ravi Karunanayake. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 5 August 2025. No. 1754902606038704. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/27764