Abstract:
Poverty is an issue to be highlighted of its paramount influence on global
development. Education is a committed cause of the prevalence of poverty.
Many scholars agree with the fact that there is a cyclical relationship between
poverty and education. In making efforts to alleviate poverty, it is worth
studying the low standard of education in the district of Kegalle within placed
at the 6th amongst the districts confronted by poverty in Sri Lanka. It reveals
that there is a significant relationship between poverty and education. The
main objective of this research is to realize how the low level of education
promotes poverty and how poverty can be an important cause to culminate in
ineffective educational achievements. Deraniyagala Divisional Secretariat
Division shows a rate of 11.36% in its poverty indication. 50 families have
been selected as a sample population and they are benefitted by the Samurdhi
Development scheme. Qualitative and quantitative methods have been
employed to analyze the above data. The researcher could notice that the major
wage earner’s low education has affected to increase poverty and following
the rate of his or her income, the children tend to face issues in education.
Poverty has also caused less educational performance among students. The
research confirms several measures that need to be adopted to reduce poverty:
a process to uplift the level of income of the family, implementation of projects
to increase educational performance to a satisfactory level and directing the
school leavers to vocational education.
