Grade five bursary allowance also increased to rupees 750…
The Cabinet has approved the suggestion to grant scholarship payment to another 5000 students who have scored higher than cut off marks from grade five scholarship examination. This increment of students after 11 years is a specialty.
Only 15,000 students received scholarship allowance at present, and as per the Cabinet memorandum forwarded on 2019-08-13 to Cabinet by Education Minister Mr. Akila Viraj Kariyawasam Attorney at law, has approved to increase the amount of students who receive allowance to 20,000.
Also by this Cabinet paper the Secretary of Education has been granted the authority of deciding the income of parents or guardian/custodian when granting grade five bursary after year 2019.
