Nenaguna Veduma Sisu Diriya in Vavuniya

The National Program on schoolchildren's ethical and intelligence development Nenaguna Veduma Sisu Diriya will be held in the Vavuniya District from tomorrow in eight schools, President's Media Division said in a press release yesterday.

Under this program Guna Nena Veduma societies have been formed in 19 schools of the North from September this year and schools in the Vavuniya District will conduct the program for three days from tomorrow.

This child development program was one of the policies in the Mahinda Chintana manifesto of President Mahinda Rajapaksa and was started in 2006 but schoolchildren in the North and East could not be brought into it due to terrorism, the release also said.

Al Iqubal Maha Vidyalaya, Al Amin Vidyalaya, Dharmapala Vidyalaya, Alagalla Maha Vidyalaya, Kanthipuram Maha Vidyalaya, Gamini Maha Vidyalaya, Vipulananda Vidyalaya and Muslim Maha Vidyalaya are the schools in the district that have been brought into the program the release also said.