PARLIAMENT

Hon. Rohitha Abeygunawardhana,—To ask the Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Higher Education and Vocational Education,— (1)

(a) Will she inform this House of the —

(i) number of national schools in Sri Lanka in each province, separately;

(ii) number of students, the number of teachers and the number of members on the non-academic staff in each of those schools, separately;

(iii) number of provincial-council schools under each of the province in Sri Lanka, separately;

(iv) number of students, the number of teachers and the number members in the non-academic staff in each of those schools, separately;

(v) number of provincial-council schools that have been transformed as national schools by the previous government; and

(vi) measures that will be taken to develop those schools?

(b) If not, why?