Embassy focuses on core subjects

INDIA, through its diplomatic office in PNG, has donated textbooks on four core subjects to schools in Port Moresby.
These included books on mathematics, physics, normal sciences and English to the Bavaroko, Coronation and Pari primary schools.
Presenting the learning materials, High Commissioner Inbasekar Sundaramurthi said the assistance was aimed at raising the bar on education in the country.
“The donation is a goodwill gift to the children of PNG. I want them to be competitive people in the world in future,” Sundaramurthi said.
“Books are exactly relevant to them. Teachers just need to teach them. The curriculum here is just the same as in India.”
He said Indians were globally competitive and he would like PNG to be competitive in education as well. The Indian envoy would visit other provinces later in the year to make similar donations, inclusive of books, school bags and uniforms, shoes and stationary.
On improving PNG’s electoral system, Sundaramurthi said invitations would be sent to relevant Government officials to visit and observe the Indian elections, scheduled to start next Friday and end on June 2 in seven locations across India.
“In the upcoming elections in India, 970 million people are eligible to vote.
“I will ask PNG government officials to visit India to observe, come back and try to follow the process in the 2027 national general elections.”
He said the visitors would not only observe, but would also witness the use of India’s biometric card, called the Aadhaar, at play during the Indian elections.
“The Aadhaar card is the largest biometric card in the world,” Sundaramurthi said.