By Dr Ramesh Somasunderam. Willetton 6155, Australia.

I believe what Sri Lanka needs most is very good Civil and District Administration.  This is what can make the country to function and be governed well.

Sri Lanka for once is united under one party and importantly the present President of our lovely country his Excellency Mr. Anura Kumara Dissanayake. Even the Tamils residing in the North and East of Sri Lanka voted for him as their President.  Based on this, all Sri Lankans wanted an honest, fair and equitable leader to give them a fair go and employment prospects including, accountability and a just nation.  Based on these facts stated, the President of Sri Lanka can ensure as one nation to make the District Administration nonpolitical and functional again and the civil administration a quality one by training our Sri Lanka Administrative Servants by getting quality men and women from the higher civil service in Britain and India to come and train our men and women in the Sri Lanka Higher Administrative Service. This plus mega projects such as the The Kelani River scheme and the Jaffna Salt Water Scheme should be done including making Off Shore banking and Sri Lanka the United Nations of the Fareast by that ensuring our independence.  

Sri Lanka’s foreign policy should be neutral but more towards India. Otherwise they will want the road to be built between India and Sri Lanka and the 13^th Amendment for devaluation to the Sri Lankan Tamils in the North and East of the country. They believe like the British to divide the rule the nation of Sri Lanka.

In fact it was the central government of India that trained the LTTE and not Tamil Nadu as viewed by many majority Sinhalese.  Tamil Nadu emphasized with the Sri Lankan Tamil situation, but did not military train them. The late Mrs Gandhi the Prime Minister of India got many Sri Lankan Tamil militant groups trained in North Indian as the then President of Sri Lanka J. R. Jayewardene was pro-West rather than pro India. Based on this example it is foolish to play games between China and India. We must be neutral in our foreign policy, but lean more towards India as it is regional and potential superpower. Thereby ensuring Sri Lanka is made the center of South Asia.

The problem at present is the current President not using the SLAS Members in key positions and not envisaging on the projects I have stated above. If all of this is done the Central government which is pro North Indian will be pleased with the current government of Sri Lanka and not against it or work against our President and his government as happened in the past.

The other aspect could be Sri Lanka can have a living cricket academy for three years for a Degree to be granted to a promising cricketer men and women from whole of South Asia and promote grassroots cricket in a professional scale within the region, not just Sri Lanka. 

At present there is killings among gag groups and contact killing taking place in Sri Lanka, which is because there is a lack of civil and district administration in Sri Lanka. If one takes India for example their higher civil administration is what keeps the country together and functional, not their politicians who are jokers from a majority perspective, both national and state wise in India, but it is their higher civil service which is the pillar of India and it functionality as a nation or country.     

Sri Lanka can unite by ensuring English is the main language in the country and Singhalese and Tamil can be followed by people who want their children to be proficient in their mother language like in India where English is the link language even though Modi wants Hindi as well. I suppose time will tell whether this approach pays deviance to India as a nation.