The seventh phase of the ‘Viru Sisu Pradeepa’ scholarship scheme, being implemented annually to appreciate and encourage children of tri-service War Heroes and the Police who excelled in Grade 5 scholarship examination, got underway Thursday (30) morning at the Defence Services College (DSC) for the year 2015 under the auspices of HE the President, Maithripala Sirisena as the Chief Guest at the invitation of Ministry of Defence.
The "Viru Sisu Pradeepa" Scholarship Scheme, founded in 1985 for the express purpose of assisting students of war heroes for education was subsequently further promoted and its assistance enhanced after the Directorate of Veterans Affairs and the Directorate of Welfare in the Army, in close coordination with respective welfare wings of the tri-services, took initiatives in the project’s expansion since the year 2006, considering the plight of many children without a single parent.
This morning’s ceremony saw a total of 230 children of the tri-services and Police War Heroes awarded those scholarships, graced by a host of distinguished invitees, headed by the President Sirisena.
153 students of Army families, 19 of Navy families, 15 of Air Force families and 43 of Police families were benefitted and received those incentives under the ‘Viru Sisu Pradeepa’ scholarship project.
State Minister of Defence, Mr Ruwan Wijewardene, Secretary Defence, Mr B.M.U.D Basnayaka, Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Kolitha Gunathilaka, Commander of the Army, Lieutenant General Crishanthe De Silva, Commander of the Navy, Vice Admiral R.C Wijegunerathne, Inspector General of the Police Mr N.K. Illangakoon and a senior officer of the Sri Lanka Air Force, joined the distribution of those scholarships in addition to HE the President.
National Defence Fund of the Ministry of Defence provides a large chunk of the patronage for scholarships for the ‘Viru Sisu Pradeepa’ project in the last couple of years.
Under the programme, each child receives a Rs. 25,000/= as a bank deposit, a schoolbag with books and stationery and a mini Oxford dictionary and a till for saving purposes.
During the same ceremony four of those students who scored the highest marks, making national records were gifted with special educational kits containing large Oxford dictionaries.
President Sirisena in his brief address to the event said that all necessary measures would be taken to enhance welfare assistance to children of War Hero families all the time.
Additional Secretaries of the Ministry of Defence, Mrs. Nayana De Silva, President, Army Seva Vanitha Unit, Chief of Staff Major General Jagath Dias, tri-service Directors of Welfare, Director Veterans Affairs, Brigadier N.A.P.C Napagoda, including a large number of students and their parents were present at the occasion.
The "Viru Sisu Pradeepa" Scholarship Scheme, founded in 1985 for the express purpose of assisting students of war heroes for education was subsequently further promoted and its assistance enhanced after the Directorate of Veterans Affairs and the Directorate of Welfare in the Army, in close coordination with respective welfare wings of the tri-services, took initiatives in the project’s expansion since the year 2006, considering the plight of many children without a single parent.
This morning’s ceremony saw a total of 230 children of the tri-services and Police War Heroes awarded those scholarships, graced by a host of distinguished invitees, headed by the President Sirisena.
153 students of Army families, 19 of Navy families, 15 of Air Force families and 43 of Police families were benefitted and received those incentives under the ‘Viru Sisu Pradeepa’ scholarship project.
State Minister of Defence, Mr Ruwan Wijewardene, Secretary Defence, Mr B.M.U.D Basnayaka, Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Kolitha Gunathilaka, Commander of the Army, Lieutenant General Crishanthe De Silva, Commander of the Navy, Vice Admiral R.C Wijegunerathne, Inspector General of the Police Mr N.K. Illangakoon and a senior officer of the Sri Lanka Air Force, joined the distribution of those scholarships in addition to HE the President.
National Defence Fund of the Ministry of Defence provides a large chunk of the patronage for scholarships for the ‘Viru Sisu Pradeepa’ project in the last couple of years.
Under the programme, each child receives a Rs. 25,000/= as a bank deposit, a schoolbag with books and stationery and a mini Oxford dictionary and a till for saving purposes.
During the same ceremony four of those students who scored the highest marks, making national records were gifted with special educational kits containing large Oxford dictionaries.
President Sirisena in his brief address to the event said that all necessary measures would be taken to enhance welfare assistance to children of War Hero families all the time.
Additional Secretaries of the Ministry of Defence, Mrs. Nayana De Silva, President, Army Seva Vanitha Unit, Chief of Staff Major General Jagath Dias, tri-service Directors of Welfare, Director Veterans Affairs, Brigadier N.A.P.C Napagoda, including a large number of students and their parents were present at the occasion.
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