“Kiren Sapiri Deyak” inaugurated...
July 23, 2019
The ‘Kiren Sapiri Deyak’, the national programme to provide a pack of liquid milk to every child was inaugurated under the patronage of President Maithripala Sirisena today (23).
The programme launched under Grama Shakthi People’s Movement together with Ministries of Education, Health and the Livestock Department and much other public and private stakeholders aims to provide a packet of liquid milk to around 600,000 selected primary students island-wide.
To mark the inauguration President symbolically handed over glasses of milk to a group of students at Kajugaswatte Shasthrodaya Vidyalaya in Nivitigala, Ratnapura, stated the President’s Media Division.
Ministers Rajitha Senarathne, Akila Viraj Kariyawasam, P. Harrison, Governor of Sabaragamuwa Damma Disanayake, Dunesh Gankanda, Athula Kumara Rahubaddha, Bhanu Manupriya and public representatives and public officials, school principals, teachers and others were also present at this occasion.