Press briefing of Cabinet Decision taken on 2013-02-28

Building a healthy nation and encouraging the students skilled in sports activities to develop such skills to be talented sportsmen

- it has been observed that only about 5% of the students following primary education in the country are engaged in sports activities which could be due to devoting much time for education purposes. The joint proposal made by Hon. Bandula Gunawardana, Minister of Education and Hon. S.B. Dissanayake, Minister of Higher Education, and Hon. Mahindananda Aluthgamage, Minister of Sports, to implement physical education and sports programmes within the school system and universities, so that students with special skills and abilities in sports activities could be identified and assistance provided to achieve national and international levels in the field of sports, was approved by the Cabinet. It was also decided to encourage students to participate in cadeting and scouting as well, to develop their skills in extra curricula activities.