Press briefing of Cabinet Decision taken on 2020-12-07

Increasing the number of National Schools to 1000

- Policy approval has been granted by the Cabinet at its meeting held on 2019‑12‑10 to implement an appropriate program to establish 1000 new National Schools covering all Divisional Secretariat Divisions. Accordingly, the program is planned to be implemented in three phases and the proposal made by the Minister of Education to implement the relevant programme to develop one selected Provincial Council School as a National School in each of the 123 Divisional Secretariat Divisions in which there are no National Schools as the first phase, to upgrade 673 schools selected on the basis of identified criteria as National Schools under the second phase and to further develop the existing 373 National Schools under the third phase,was approved by the Cabinet.