Sri Lanka will open government schools for all grades next week - Education Minister

COLOMBO (News 1st); Sri Lanka's Education Minister Dinesh Gunawardena on Monday (15) said that all government schools will open for all grades from next week.

Minister Gunawardena told the Parliament that "after the lockdown, the schools have opened irrespective of political priorities that we stand for,"

"It is our children who are going to school and they will be going through school and going up the ladder," he added.

The Minister also added that Sri Lanka successfully opened schools for upper grades in October and now will open schools for all grades from next week.