The cabinet yesterday approved a proposal put forward by President Mahinda Rajapaksa to implement a 10-year national action plan formulated as the basis for a National Programme to motivate the people to acquire language skills in all three major languages -Sinhala, Tamil and English.

A summit on Trilingual Sri Lanka Year will be held in January with the participation of former Indian President Abdul Kalam and Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal.

The Presidential Secretariat is expected to establish a Coordinating Unit for the purpose.