INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The Cabinet of Ministers has granted approval for the admission of local students for the MBBS medical degree programme at General Sir John
Advanced Level and other specified qualifications, the Cabinet Spokesman Minister Bandula Gunawardena said.The General Sir John Kotalawala
Defense University (KDU) was declared a University by the General Sir John Kotalawala State Defense Training Institute (Amendment) Act No
27 of 1988.Meanwhile, the Faculty of Medicine of the university was established in the year 2011 to train cadet officers as medical
professionals and award degrees in Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) as per the service requirements of the Armed Services.Accordingly, the
university currently grants the opportunity to pursue medical degrees for local students who join the armed forces or police as a cadet and
qualified foreign students only, on a payment basis.The proposal to allow the admission of local students selected through a set of
criteria, for the MBBS medical degree programme at the university under a payment basis, was presented to the Cabinet of Ministers by
President Ranil Wickremesinghe.
