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Teaching posts for plantation youth by M.P. Muttiah Estate Infrastructure and Community Development Minister Muthu Sivalingam said that the objectives of appointing 3,179 teachers to schools in the plantation sector was to uplift that backward community and fill vacancies that existed for many years. He said that these appointments would also help to reduce unemployment among plantation youth. He said the plantation community had no quotas in the public sector employment opportunities. Sivalingam said there were more than 6,000 Advanced Level qualified, unemployed youth in the plantation sector and only three thousand would be absorbed to the teaching posts. Plantation youths were unable to pursue higher studies due to lack of resources in schools and thus, they had solely depended on the teaching appointments. He said that 99 per cent of the plantation population were Tamils of Indian origin who were predominantly Hindus, Catholics and Christians, thus President Kumaratunga had agreed to the request made by Ceylon Worker's Congress to fill the vacancies existing in plantation schools from youths that belonged to the plantation sector. |
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