Accordingly, a national school with 3,000 students or more will receive Rs 1.5 million and a school with less than 3,000 students will receive Rs. 500 for each student. A school with 300 students will receive Rs. 100,000, Education Minister Akila Viraj Kariyawasam said.

Addressing the media at the Education Ministry on Wednesday (08), the Minister pointed out that the allocations will be utilized to uplift of teaching and learning processes, teacher training, teacher capacity building programmes and subject based extra curricular activities.

About 40 percent of the allocations can be utilized for maintenance and renovation activities of school buildings and instruments, the minister further said.