Building on the SLFP proposals for devolution

Some countries are now realising that one of the best ways of reducing and preventing internal conflict is to get their people to participate more in government and to give them more input into the important decisions that affect their lives. These can be achieved by decentralising or devolving more power to local government and by giving more freedom to people's organisations.

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The National College of Education of Jaffna:

Evolution of grove from a solitary tree

The Ministry of Education was of the opinion that Dr. Kamalanathan Vice President of the National College of Education, Vavuniya, as the most suitable person for the post and after following the ministry procedure issued him the appointment letter and dispatched him to Jaffna to start the Jaffna National College of Education.

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Imploding Federalism in Australia - Are there Lessons for Sri Lanka?

No one from the Commonwealth has really answered the question as to whether the Catholic social worker is capable of providing unbiased counselling when it comes to dealing with abortions and the key question whether to abort or not. These actions have been deservedly condemned by the State Governments including the subsidies paid by the Commonwealth to rich private schools at the expense of increasing financial support for disadvantaged public schools.

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