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Nenasa TV expands coverage to cover 2,000 schools

Nenasa TV, the satellite-based television channel developed to bridge the education gap between urban and rural Sri Lanka is expanding its reach to connect another 1,000 schools into the programme with the aim of making education accessible to all, its owner Dialog said this week.

Minister with Dialog CEO

A new MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) to expand Dialog Nenasa TV for this purpose was signed between Dr. Hans Wijayasuriya, Group Chief Executive at Dialog Axiata PLC and Bandula Gunawardena, Minister for Education.

The Nenasa programme was developed under the Mahinda Chinthanaya education plan to address the disparity of access to knowledge between urban and rural Sri Lanka through ICT (Information Communication Technology).

“Nenasa is an excellent platform to take education to schools in the rural peripheries of Sri Lanka,” Mr Gunawardena said. “A satellite based system has almost no geographic limitation which offers a tremendous opportunity for us to extend knowledge and bridge the education gap in rural constituencies.”

The state of the art satellite based distance education programme is operated by the Ministry of Education, while a high quality telecast edition of the national education curriculum for Ordinary Level and Advance Level students is developed by the National Institute of Education (NIE). The education syllabus is available in Sinhala and Tamil.

The developed curriculum is transmitted to the rural school network via DTV (Dialog Television). DTV, a satellite-based broadcaster, is a subsidiary of Dialog Axiata. Dialog CEO Dr. Hans Wijayasuriya said Nenasa is a gift from Dialog to uplift rural education in Sri Lanka. ICT has the potential of becoming the great equalizer in the sphere of knowledge and empower rural education.

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