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The
vocational training for at least 1200 students which had
been held back after the tsunami disaster will be conducted
temporally at alternative vocational training institutions,
said Skills Development, Vocational and Technical Education
Minister Piyasena Gamage.
Minister Gamage told the "Sunday Observer" that 15
Vocational Training Centres (VTCs) in the Southern and
Eastern coastal districts were damaged due to the disaster
and according to statistics the estimated cost of equipment
and buildings damaged exceeds Rs. 321.4 million.
The Ministry statistics have revealed that eight vocational
training centres at Kottegoda, Weligama, Matara,
Pettigalawatta, Ambalangoda, Ahangama and Galle in the
Southern Province and seven centres at Karathive, Kalmunai,
Potuvil, Akkaraipattu, Kalavanchikudy and Mullaitivu in the
Northern Province were damaged.
"The reconstruction of the devastated vocational training
centres will start in February and our aim is to recommence
the studies at the same locations as early as possible," he
said.
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