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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 10177760" data-attributes="member: 92282">Sri Lanka's Supreme Court has suspended a government plan to make  military training compulsory for students who qualify for university  education, an official said Saturday.The top court late Friday  ordered the education ministry to delay implementation of the training  programme until a ruling is made on a legal challenge to the scheme.The  government has said the three-week residential military training  program, which was due to begin on Monday at military camps, was aimed  at boosting leadership qualities.The programme did not involve the use of weapons, the government said.The  petition against the military training, which is to be heard on Monday,  called the programme "degrading" for undergraduates and a violation of  their constitutional rights.The government says it has been  forced to introduce the "leadership training" in a bid to discourage  rampant ragging -- bullying of newcomers by older students -- at Sri  Lankan universities despite a 1998 law banning the phenomenon.Ragging has caused several deaths and many severe injuries among students.Some 20,000 students a year qualify to enter Sri Lanka's 19 universities and technical colleges run by the government.<img src="http://www.google.com/hostednews/img/afp_logo.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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