PERA is the organiser!
U?grads take ?Pada Yathra? to Temple Trees
By Sandun A Jayasekera
Unemployed graduates, numbering nearly 25,000, have begun to collect one million signatures to organize a walk ending at Temple Trees, in a bid to press the Mahinda Rajapaksa administration to provide them immediate employment, as pledged under the Mahinda Chintanaya manifesto, during the 2005 presidential election campaign, by the President.
The national convener of the Consolidated Undergraduates Association (CUA), Sujith Kuruwita, told Daily Mirror yesterday that the campaign would begin next Monday.
The working committee of the CUA, at a discussion held last Sunday, had decided to bring all unemployed graduates to Colombo for a ?Pada Yathra?. The signature campaign got under way yesterday at Kurunegala, Kandy and Matara; and is expected to yield one million signatures, in support of the undergraduates struggle. ?We are giving an ultimatum to the government to provide us with employment before the second week of June. President Mahinda Rajapaksa cannot remain silent any longer as it was he who pledged, during the presidential election campaign, to provide employment to us, under the Mahinda Chintanaya, within a year of assuming office,? said Mr. Kuruwita.
Three rounds of discussions, held with Presidential Secretary, Lalith Weeratunga, to find a solution to the problem, had ended in failure.
Edited By - Berty - 29 May 2007 11:36:11 GMT |
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