Today’s (31st) ‘Lankadeepa’ reveals that more than a thousand children in eight villages of Dimbulagala area have given up going to school due to scarcity of food.
The newspaper has based the relevant news on Dimbulagala Dalukana tribal leader K. Lissinona’s statement. In the face of the current economic chaos, the villagers have become unable to bear the increase in the price of goods and have become unable to get food. Because of this, the leader has revealed that the children have gone to the forest in search of edible nuts and yams.
She has alleged that school children faint and fall in a big way, and the officials of the Ministry of Health or the Ministry of Education have not paid any attention in this regard and that the President’s process of providing food does not take place.
It has been revealed that many children are starving in the villages of Dimbulagala, Dalukana, Parana Millana, Kolakana Wadia, Yakkure, Pahala Yakkure, Kalu Kale, Alle Wava and Kouda Wava etc.
