The education minister Mr. Akila Viraj Kariyawasam Attorney at law has instructed ministry officials to fill immediately the vacant 1918 grade iii government school principal posts.
Accordingly the Principal Branch has taken steps to hold interviews by the end of July to select the applicants who have scored the highest marks from the examination held on 10th of February to recruit principals.
3881 who have scored highest marks will be called for the interview.
On instructions given by the education minister already 3901 have been enrolled as Principals after holding limited competitive examinations and interviews as per the Minutes of the Sri Lanka Principal Service ending the appointments given to political favorites as Acting Principals during the past political regime.
Unlike the past political regime and the 52 days short period all recruitments will be done on the instructions given by the minister in order to introduce a transparent administrative system to education field.
