Sri Lanka, March 11 -- Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya stated that the 2025 budget of the present government has allocated the highest amount ever in the history for education and that the Ministry of Education has introduced a five-pillar plan for the proposed education reforms.

The Prime Minister made these remarks in Parliament yesterday (10) during the budget debate on expenditure allocation for the Ministry of Education (MOE).

Speaking in Parliament during the budget debate on expenditure allocation for the MOE, Dr. Amarasuriya paid tribute to the late Dr. Janaki Jayawardena, a respected academic and activist who played a crucial role in the 2011-2012 Federation of University Teachers' Associations (FUTA) protest for increase...