E/C.12/LKA/CO/5 60. The Committee recommends that the State party intensify its measures to ensure that mental health care is available, accessible, timely and adequate, including through increasing funding, ensuring that there is a sufficient number of trained mental health professionals, decentralizing care provision, addressing regional disparities in service provision, improving referral systems and ensuring social protection for families and patients. It recommends that the State party ensure the provision of systematic programmes for promotion of mental health and psychosocial well-being at the community level. The Committee also recommends that the State party urgently adopt the mental health policy under development by the Ministry of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine. 61. The Committee is concerned about the high use of agrochemicals in the State party, seriously affecting the health of farming communities. It also notes with concern that while glyphosate pesticide was officially banned in 2015 in the State party, it is still used in plantations (art. 12). 62. The Committee recommends that the State party urgently address the very high use of agrochemicals, take steps to enforce the ban of glyphosate in all sectors, extend the ban to cover all agrochemicals that adversely affect the health of the population and the environment and carry out effective and frequent inspections. Education 63. The Committee is concerned that, despite concerted efforts made, regional disparities remain in school infrastructure, availability of water and electricity in educational institutions, deployment of trained educational personnel, curriculum contents and transport of pupils. These disparities lead to differences in access to and quality of education. The Committee is also concerned about the hidden financial costs of schooling, in particular donations for school admittance that constitute de facto bribes burdening lowincome and underprivileged households with additional costs. It is furthermore concerned at the commodification of education (art. 13). 64. The Committee recommends that the State party take urgent steps to address regional disparities in education, improve educational standards, technical and infrastructural facilities, as well as the availability of qualified teachers (including Tamil-speaking teachers), in particular in conflict-affected areas. It urges the State party to significantly increase its public spending on education and establish the envisaged education inspectorate. The Committee also urges the State party to address the hidden financial costs of the public education system, ensuring its affordability and eliminating the practice of donations for school admittance. 65. The Committee is concerned that many children with disabilities still do not receive primary, secondary and university education (enrolment rates are 34.6 per cent, 33.8 per cent and 1.3 per cent, respectively) and that persons with disabilities in higher education face difficulties in accessing facilities and information and that their choice of subjects is limited (art. 13). 66. The Committee recommends that the State party intensify its efforts to ensure that all children with disabilities have access to and receive quality inclusive education. Cultural rights 67. The Committee is concerned that the Official Languages Law and the National Trilingual Policy are not effectively enforced and that State offices and government departments do not have adequate capacity to communicate with Tamil-speaking citizens in their native language and thus to provide fair and equal access to State services. It is also concerned that less than 1 per cent of schools offer teaching in all three languages and that there is a shortage of Tamil-language teachers, especially in the hill country (art. 15). 68. The Committee recommends that the State party take immediate steps to ensure effective implementation of the Official Languages Law and National Trilingual Policy, through a sufficient number of Tamil-speaking public officials and 9