Sri Lanka under-investing in education: World Bank 
July 1, 2014 
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"In several World Bank reports we have pointed out that Sri Lanka under invests in education. Sri Lanka's investment in education as percentage of GDP is one of the lowest in the region and in the world in terms of middle income countries."
"Each country has to decide what percentage of the government budget should be invested in education and what percentage of national income would be invested in education; so we don't have an idea about what proportion of GDP should be invested in education."

Speaking about the outcomes of the World Bank report, consultant for South Asia sector for education at the World Bank, Anil Deolalikar highlighted some issues in the country's secondary education sector.

"Competitive achievement of the students at the primary and junior level in Sri Lanka has been rising; so it's not the case that the quality has been stagnating. But the main problem in Sri Lanka is that the quality of the education at the senior level has been stagnant over the last two decades, and so if there is a need for a focus its more of a focus on secondary education where results have been somewhat lacking," he said.

Gota Caught Lying In Interview

July 1, 2014 

In a revealing interview published in today’s Daily Mirror, Sri Lankas Secretary of Defence and Urban Development Gotabaya Rajapaksa was caught contradicting himself on two occasions, pertaining to the alleged assault of a Buddhist monk on the day of Poson Poya, and his power extending to the Police force.

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The interviewer asks the Defence Secretary why the Police did not prevent the rally from taking in place, and while justifying the decision of the Police, Rajapaksa asks the Interviewer why he perceives the inception to be the rally, when there was a “buddhist monk assaulted”

The interviewer then asks Rajapaksa if the assault was true, to be met by a stoic answer by Rajapaksa who says the monk was intact assaulted.

Soon after, in the next question Rajapaksa is asked about the report of the Judicial Medical Officer regarding the assault of the monk, and Rajapaksa runs into a rant, backtracking from his previous “assault” stance.

He instead says that “there was an incident, it can be pushing” etc.

The main justification of the BBS rally and the subsequent anti- Muslim riot was the alleged assault of the monk.

However, highly placed sources in the Police and Law Enforrcement agencies told the Colombo Telegraph that there was no assault on the monk. The monk Ayagama Samitha had lied regarding his injuries and got himself admitted to the hospital. The Answer of Rajapaksa also indicates that no such assault took place.

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