NWPC teachers not permitted to take up foreign jobs

by S.M. Wijayaratne, Kurunegala Cor.

The NWP-PC Chief Minister Dayasiri Jayasekara has decided not to allow government school teachers in the Kurunegala and Puttalam districts to go abroad for lucrative jobs. They apply for no pay leave to serve in other countries such as Italy and the Middle East. Over 240 school teachers of the NWP have left and they have been working abroad for four or five years.

There are 1,234 schools in the NWP with 498,000 students. This is an unwholesome trend for students and the NWP Chief Minister has directed the NWP Provincial Director of Education not to recommend any teacher to go abroad for employment under any circumstances hence forth. "However, the teachers can resign from their posts and go abroad for jobs and I can't stop them migrating to take up jobs," said NWP-Chief Minister at the NWP Chief Minister's Office in Kurunegala recently.