Emphasis on study of English

by P. Rajaratnam in Nuwara Eliya

Studying of English was stressed by the Resident Director of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Joachim Sehlutter, at the Workshop on `The Role of Local Bodies in Development of Tourism and Economic Development' held at the Nuwara Eliya Golf Club Auditorium.

The West German Resident Director said that even recently President Mahinda Rajapaksa has emphasised the need for the study of English Language in the country, since English has become a link language in the entire globe, therefore he requested those involved in the tourism trade to equip themselves not only in English, but in other languages used all over the world.

A number of officials from leading hotels, guest houses, tourist guides, local bodies, government departments, senior police officers attended the workshop.Sehlutter said that his organisation the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Foundation was committed to work on Social Democracy, on Political Education, International Cooperation, Scholarship Programs, Research and Consultation.

The Resident Manager of the Grand Hotel, Nuwara Eliya Raju Veerasingam who spoke on the promotion of the Tourist Industry in Nuwara Eliya said that it's a land of peace, and silence and the town is decorated with buildings ranging in style from Georgian to Queen Anne, Parks, Trout Streams, the Golf links, the historical clubs, and several other natural resources, and they have to be carefully harnessed and preserved.

A Senior Journalist and a Labour Consultant P. Rajaratnam who spoke on Tourism Promotion and the history of Nuwara Eliya traced it from the time as Nuwara Eliya was in 1819, when Dr. Davy a brother of the famous Sir Nubrey Davy visited Nuwara Eliya on a hunting spree, how thereafter Nuwara Eliya had been progressively developed into a tourist paradise of international repute.