Niyanthini Kadirgamar

The education Budget: a pre-Budget exploration | Daily FT The NPP Government will be presenting its first full-year Budget for 2026 tomorrow, outlining its policy priorities for an economy continuing to suffer under severe austerity ..

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I was part of the panel of speakers at the launch.

Here’s the link to the event

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FCEJ condemns the violence perpetrated by the state against the people of Mannar and demands that the right to energy be recognised alongside the right to a safe environment.

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"குப்பைத் தொட்டிக்கு மட்டுமே பொருத்தமானது” என்று நிராகரித்த கல்விச் சீர்திருத்தங்களை தேசிய மக்கள் சக்தி அரசாங்கமும் அங்கீகரித்துள்ளது. மேலும் கல்விச் சீர்திருத்தத்தை நிபுணர்களிடம் விட்டுவிடுமாறு ஜனாதிபதி நாடாளுமன்ற உரையில் கேட்டுக்கொண்டது நிலைமையை மோசமாக்கும் வகையில் நிபுணர்களின் கொடுங்கோன்மையை எளிதில் தழுவுவதை அம்பலப்படுத்தியுள்ளது. maatram.org/articles/12319

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Suriya Women’s Development Centre | Family Law and Practice in Sri Lanka: Women’s Declaration This Declaration was prepared through a collective process grounded in survivors’ lived realities and Suriya Women's Development Centre's long-standing work in the Eastern Province for over three deca...

Women from across #SriLanka call for a reformed family law and practice that centres equality, dignity, and safety for women and children. Read, sign, amplify, and organise, around the Women's Declaration.

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Niyanthini Kadirgamar | Stirring the Hornet’s Nest: The NPP’s Education Reforms Niyanthini Kadirgamar is a PhD candidate in education at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, USA.

Yes. #SriLanka's education system needs overhaul. No. The @NPPSLOfficial warmed-up proposals are not solutions to ongoing problems. Why squander precious political capital, asks Niyanthini Kadirgamar?
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புதிய பாதை | 25.07.2025 YouTube video by Newsfirst Tamil - Sri Lanka

Joined the conversation on the proposed education reforms
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Spoke about the IMF’s visit and what it means when they say the “last IMF agreement.”

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Isn’t it ironic that the comfort dogs, mindfulness and free cookie decorating events - the usual solution for every crisis situation in #US #HigherEd - have not been suggested yet to deal with the currently unfolding #apocalypse?

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Shared my analysis of #srilanka Budget 2025 with அரசியல் பேசும் இளையோர்.

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Far from fair redistribution, this approach signals a cruel transfer of the burden of the crisis onto those already poor.

While more than half of the public revenue is generated through indirect taxes, only 4.7% of the total Budget revenue is allocated to be distributed back to the families who have helped raise them through Aswesuma.

The recent thrust on increasing Government revenues has meant that working people have paid a higher share of the increases through indirect taxes on goods and services, even as they were forced to contend with inadequate food, medicines and education for their families.

In addition, the NPP Government introduced financial assistance to purchase school stationery to the program. In total, the amount allocated to all such different vulnerable groups is only Rs. 232.5 billion, an appalling 0.7% of GDP.

Aswesuma is the only State-led program that is focused on offering relief to the most vulnerable sections of society, including low-income families, the elderly, persons living with disabilities and kidney patients.

The figure should be understood as a shrinking of the cash transfer program. There is not even a nominal increase from the allocation in 2024 (Rs. 161.7 billion).

Disappointingly, the 2025 Budget fails to make social protection for the most precarious families a budgetary priority. The amount allocated for cash transfers to low-income families under the Aswesuma program is Rs. 160.1 billion, which amounts to a meagre 0.5% of GDP.

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My analysis of Budget 2025 through analysing govt allocations for social protection.

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#fcej initial observations on the #NPP maiden budget for 2025.

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1000 Days! #BattiJusticeWalk

Inspired by the resilience and energy of the women who have continued on and preserved the space for hope.

Women workers endure the biggest blows from economic collapse

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YouTube video by DAN Tamil Oli நெற்றிக்கண் | 21.12.2024 | "சமகாலத்தில் பெண்கள் எதிர்கொள்ளும் ,சமூக, பொருளாதார சவால்கள்"

Spoke to Dan TV on the impact of #SriLanka ‘s #economiccrisis on women in the Batticaloa District

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