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denied: Child's admission case goes to President
The student was first selected for 2005 Grade One admission at D. S. Senanayake Vidyalaya but later he was suspended pending an investigation into a complaint made by another parent, who alleged that the selected student lived outside the radius. Since the inquiry was taking time, the parents of the child complained to the Education Ministry's Commission of Appeals and Commissioner A.R.M.B Amarakoon ruled the student lived within the required radius. It was good and bad news for the parents. Bad news because, the commissioner also told the parents that the boy could not be admitted to D. S. Senanayake Vidyalaya as the school had already filled all the vacancies. The parents had then spoken to the Ombudsman who had in turn referred this matter back to Commissioner Amarakoon with a request to do justice to the aggrieved party. But the commissioner said he was unable to comply with the request because he had to adhere to a presidential directive with regard to admissions. A.D. Somadasa, Administrative Officer of the Ombudsman's office told The Sunday Times that the Commissioner had violated the fundamental rights of the child. He said Ombudsman R. J. Ranaraja had written a letter to the President regarding this matter. |
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