Pirivena robes cost Rs. 50 million
by S.M. Wijayaratne Kurunegala Cor.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa has instructed the Educational Services
Minister Duminda Dissanayake to visit all pirivenas in the island and
look for possible solutions to the problems that are faced by novice
monks who presently study at these pirivenas.
There are 750 pirivenas throughout the country and around 62,000
novice monks study at these pirivenas. Government spends a sum of 50
million rupees annually for offering robes to them and that facility is
not enough.
All possible facilities have to be provided to these novice monks to
be virtuous intellectuals who are capable of propagating the noblest
teachings of the Buddha world over in the future.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa wishes to develop pirivenas in the coming
years, said Duminda Dissanayake, the Minister of Educational Services
speaking at a conference of Zonal Directors of Education and Pirivena
heads held recently in Wariyapola, Kurunegala. |