The Bhutanese government has issued a circular to medical students in Sri Lanka to return home should the ongoing strikes continue beyond October this year.
The circular called for Bhutanese students from the Universities of Colombo, Kelaniya and Peradeniya should return home in October and “wait in Bhutan until the situation in Sri Lanka improves or some alternative arrangement is made.”The statement further added that payments to the universities would be suspended until classes resume.
The order comes after several medical teaching faculties in Sri Lanka have been on a six month strike against the privatisation of education, reports dailymirror.lk.