Colombo: Endorsing the high standard of education maintained by the Tamil dominated Jaffna university, the post LTTE era has witnessed a large enrolment of Sinhala students for the first time in 30 years.
"For the first time in 30 years, a large number of students are entering the Jaffna University from the South (Sri Lanka). Some of them have even entered from remote areas in the South", Senior Co-ordinator of Civil Affairs in Jaffna, Major Lal Nanayakkara said.
Seventy-two students from the South who gained admission to the University of Jaffna were given a rousing welcome and not ragged by the senior students of the university.
Nanayakkara said the University of Jaffna has an unblemished history with regard to its functions, the state run 'Sunday Observer' said.
Even during the height of the turbulent days in the North, the activities of the University of Jaffna continued uninterrupted, it said.
The students from the South are entering in all Faculties including Medical, Law and Management Faculties of the University.
Senior students of the University have organised a series of programmes to make the freshers from the South comfortable in Jaffna.
A sight-seeing tour has been organised by the Jaffna Law Faculty Students to tour important areas in Jaffna.
A cultural event was also organised by the Faculty of Law students to greet the newcomers.
The students from the South who gained admission to the Jaffna University have been accommodated at the University Hostels.
Sinhala students first entered the University of Jaffna, the newspaper said.
It was opened by the late Prime Minister Sirima Bandaranaike in 1975.
As many as 72 students including Muslims have entered the Jaffna University from the South after peace dawned in the region, Nanayakkara said.
PTI
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