10.1.2008
“Digital Bridge” Programme
The
Cabinet has granted its approval to a proposal submitted
by Hon Minister of Education, Susil Premajayantha to sign
a Memorandum of Understanding with Dialog Telekom to launch
the Digital Bridge project.
The
project aims at giving rural students the opportunity
to engage in real-time interactive learning from experienced
teachers.
Under the project lessons will be conducted in a recording
studio at the National Institute of Education (NIE) and
will be supplemented by a Learning Management System (LMS)
through which the interactive element will be facilitated.
Exclusive
programmes will be broadcast via a channel on Dialog Satellite
TV to 1000 schools connected to the network.
Eighty
new housing units for Trincomalee Town
The
Cabinet has granted approval to a proposal submitted by
His Excellency President Mahinda Rajapaksa as the Minister
of Nation Building and Estate Infrastructure Development
to implement a high density multi-storey special housing
project in Tricomalee Town.
Taking
into consideration the urgent necessity of re-locating
the tsunami affected families presently in occupation
of transitional shelters in the Trincomalee District cabinet
approval was granted to award the Love Lane- Trincomalee
housing Project to the Central Engineering Consultancy
Bureau (CECB) to construct 80 housing units (4 blocks
of 20 units) at an estimated cost of Rs.98, 870,600.00
The
supervision of the project is to be handed over to the
Department of Building at a fee of 1% of the cost of the
Project.
Amendment
to Foreign Employment Act No. 21 of 1985
The
Cabinet approval was granted to a memorandum submitted
by Minister of Foreign Employment Promotion and Welfare,
Keheliya Rambukwella for the amendment of the Sri Lanka
Bureau of Foreign Employment Act No. 21 of 1985 in collaboration
with the Legal Draftsman.
Considering
a series of issues pertaining to the currently existing
Act, which paved the way for the establishment and regulation
of the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment, approval
was granted for the amendment.
Anusha
Palpita
Director of Government Information
Courtesy
- Government Information