Sri Lanka, Nov. 10 -- It has been revealed at a meeting of the Committee on Public Enterprise (COPE) that the total amount to be recovered from lecturers who have breached agreements and bonds and stayed abroad across the entire university system could currently be nearly Rs. 30 billion.

Issuing a media release yesterday (9), the COPE emphasised to the officials the necessity of establishing a formal mechanism to recover these funds from individuals who have breached their bonds and stayed abroad, as well as the importance of paying special attention to such issues within the university system as a whole.These matters were revealed during a meeting of the COPE recently (4) at Parliament under the chairmanship of MP Dr. Nishantha Samarawe...