The new Central Province Governor, S.B.S. Abayakoon has instructed to immediately rename the ‘Keheliya Rambukwella Primary School’ in the Kundasale Division of the Wattegama Education Zone in Kandy.
It is reported that the Structural Committee of the Provincial Education Department has recommended renaming the school as Kundasale Royal Primary School.
Accordingly, the Central Province Governor granted approval for the proposed name change yesterday (Oct 16).
The move comes after the Ceylon Teachers Union (CTU) alleged that a school in Kundasale has been named after former Minister Keheliya Rambukwella in violation of an Education Ministry circular.
At the time, the CTU pointed out that as per the Education Ministry circular issued in 1996 schools cannot be named after a living person, urging for immediate action to be taken against naming a school in such a manner.
The CTU raised concerns after Keheliya Rambukwella was remanded over the illegal importation of substandard stocks of Immune Globulin vaccines under his tenure as the Minister of Health. (Newswire)