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අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී යදාමිණී ගුණවර්ධන මහතා, සම්මානනීය ලේඛිකා ලක්මලි ගුණවර්ධන මහත්මිය ඇතුලු පවුලේ සමාජිකයන් හා මහජන නියෝජිතයන් ඇතුළු පිලිප් ගුණවර්ධන මැතිතුමන්ගේ අතීත හා වත්මන් අනුගාමිකයන් රැසක් මේ සඳහා එක්විය.
අග්රාමාත්යවරයා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ 2023.03.27 දින ජාතික වීරවර පිලිප් ගුණවර්ධන මැතිතුමාගේ 51 වන ගුණ සමරු වැඩසටහනට සමගාමීව බස්නාහිර පළාත්, හෝමාගම ශ්රී සිද්ධාර්ථ කණිෂ්ඨ විද්යාලය අ.පො.ස සාමාන්ය පෙළ දක්වා අධ්යාපනය ලබා දෙන පාසලක් බවට ශ්රේණිගත කිරීම සහ නව බහුකාර්ය මධ්යස්ථානයෙහි ඉදිකිරීම ආරම්භ කිරීමේ අවස්ථාවේදීය.
සිද්ධාර්ථ කණිෂ්ඨ විද්යාලය බොරළුගොඩ රාළහාමි නමින් විරුදාවළි ලත් දොන් ජාකෝලිස් රූපසිංහ ගුණවර්ධන මහතා විසින් 1905 වර්ෂයේදී ආරම්භ කර තිබේ.
එහිදී අදහස් දැක් වූ අග්රාමාත්යවරයා –
මේ පාසල ආරම්භ කරලා මේ පාසලේ ආරම්භක ශිෂ්යයෙක් හැටියට පිලිප් ගුණවර්ධන මැතිතුමා ලංකාවටම සේවය කරන්න පුළුවන් වුණා. මගේ පියා ජාත්යන්තරවත් විශාල වැඩ කොටසකට හවුල්වුණ ජාතික නායකයෙක් බවට පත් වුණේ මේ පාසලෙන් අධ්යාපනය ආරම්භ කරලා.
මේ අපේ පාසල. මේ පාසල වෙනුවෙන් අපිට ජාතික වශයෙන් ලබාදිය හැකි හැම මගපෙන්වීමකම ලබාදෙන බව කියන්න කැමතියි. අපේ විදුහල්පතිතුමා, ගුරුවරයන්, ගුරුවරියන් ඒ වගේම දෙමව්පියන් එකතුවිය යුතුයි. දරුවන්ට ඉගැන්වීම තමයි වටිනාම දෙය ඊට වඩා වටින දෙයක් නැහැ. මේ බොරළුගොඩ අපේ සීයා ඇතුළු මුතුන්මිත්තන්ට විශාල ඉඩම් තිබුණු බව ඇත්ත. නමුත් දරුවන්ට ඉගැන්නුවා. ජාත්යන්තරව ඉගැන්නුවා. රටට වැඩ කරන්න පුළුවන් වෙන්න දරුවන්ට යහ මග පෙන්නුවා.
අපේ පළාතෙන් එවැනි පුද්ගලයින් රාශියක් බිහිවීම ගැන අපි ආඩම්බර වෙනවා.
ලංකාවේ ව්යාපාරික පැළැන්තියේ ඉදිරියෙන්ම ඉන්න ව්යාපාරිකයෝ අපේ ගමේ, අල්ලපු ගමේ බිහිවෙලා රටට සේවය කරනවා. ඒ නිසා දරුවන්ට ඉගැන්වීම ගැන දෙමව්පියන් උනන්දු වී කටයුතු කරන්න කියලා යළිත් වරක් ඔබ සැමගෙන් ම ඉල්ලනවා. ඒ කටයුත්ත එසේම ඉගෙන ගන්න පරම්පරාවට දායාද කිරීමට බොරළුගොඩ සිද්ධාර්ථ කණිෂ්ඨ විද්යාලයේ සිට අපි අධිෂ්ඨාන කර ගනිමු.
පන්ති කාමරයේ වගේම පන්ති කාමරයෙන් බාහිරව තියෙන සම්පත් එලෙස ප්රයෝජනයට ගෙන අපේ දරුවන් පාසලෙන් පිටවී යන විට පාසලට තියන බැඳියාවක් අධ්යාපනය අනාගත දියුණුවටත් පිවිසෙන්නට පුළුවන් කමට කටයුතු කරයි කියලා විශ්වාස කරනවා.
අපේ පළාතේ ලොකුම වතුයායෙන් එකක් තමයි සාලාව වතුයාය. සාලාව වතු යායේ අවුරුදු සියයකට වැඩිය සේවය කරන පරම්පරාවල දරුවන්ට මේ පාසලේ ඉගෙන ගන්න අවස්ථාව ලබාදීම ඉතාම වැදගත්.
යදාමිණී ගුණවර්ධන පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රීතුමා බොහොම උනන්දුවෙන් පාසලේ විවිධ කටයුතුවලට දක්වන සහය වගේම පරිගණක ක්ෂේත්රය, තොරතුරු තාක්ෂණය දියුණු කිරීමට පාසලේ ඉල්ලීම් සමග කටයුතු කරන්න සාකච්ඡා කර තිබීමේ ප්රතිඵලයන් පාසලේ දියුණුවට ඉක්මනින් ලබාදෙන්නට හැකියාව ලැබෙයි කියලා විශ්වාස කරනවා.
අද අපිට ආඩම්බර දවසක්. පිලිප් ගුණවර්ධන මැතිතුමාට මේ ගමේන් බිහිවෙලා අපේ රටේ ජාතික වීරවරයෙක් හැටියට කටයුතු කරන්නට පුළුවන්කම ලැබුණා. අපේ නිදහස්ව පිණිස ගමන් කරන්නට පුළුවන්කම ලැබුණා. නිදහස දිනා ගැනීමේ සටනට තමන්ගෙන් ඉෂ්ට විය යුතු වැඩ කොටස ඉටු කළා.
පිලිප් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා රටේ පොදු මහජන සේවාවේ ක්රියාමාර්ග වලටත් අවතීරණය වීමේ ගෞරවය ඇතිව ගමන් කරන්නට පුළුවන්කම ඇති කරපු පලවෙනි පාසල හැටියට අපේ දරුවන්ට අවශ්ය පාසල් බස් රථයක්ද ලබා දෙන්න කියලා මම ඉල්ලා සිටිනවා.
මේ අහිංසක ළමයි, දෙමව්පියෝ, ත්රීරෝද රථයකට ගෙවලා එන්න සිද්ධවෙනවා. ඈතින් එන දරුවන්ට එන්න තියෙන අමාරුකම අද වැඩියි. අපි ඒක විසඳා දීමට පුළුවන් වුණොත් පාසැල් පහක් පමණ ආවරණය වන දරුවන්ට පාසල් බස් රථයේ ගමන් කරන්න හැකියාව ලැබෙනවා. අග්රාමාත්යවරයා සහ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රීවරයා හැටියට මේ කරන්නේ ඉල්ලීමක් විතරයි. නිතර දෙවේලේ ගම්වාසීන් ගමට ආවහම කතාබස් කරන දෙයක්.
අධ්යාපනය වැදගත්කමට බස්නාහිර පළාත් සභාව මේ කරන දායාදය හොඳින් ප්රයෝජනයට ගන්න සියලුම දරුවන් හා දෙමාපියන් පාසල සමඟ අත්වැල් බැඳගෙන කටයුතු කරන ලෙස ඉල්ලා සිටිනවා.
බොරළුගොඩ ශ්රී වර්ධනාරාමාධිපති සෙවෙල්වල ඤාණානන්ද හිමි ඇතුළු මහා සංඝරත්නය, බස්නාහිර පළාත් ආණ්ඩුකාර එයාර් මාෂල් රොෂාන් ගුණතිලක, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී
යදාමිණී ගුණවර්ධන, කොළඹ හිටපු පුරපති ප්රසන්න ගුණවර්ධන සහ ආදි ශිෂ්යයින් මෙම අවස්ථාවට එක්වූහ.
අග්රමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය.
March 27 (NewsWire) – The governments of Sri Lanka and India have decided to launch a passenger ferry service between Kankesanthurai in Jaffna, Sri Lanka to Karaikal in India from 29th April 2023, it has been reported.
According to reports, discussions in this regard have been held between the Minister of Ports and Shipping Nimal Siripala de Silva and India’s Foreign Affairs Ministry on Sunday (26).
It has also been decided to establish two Immigration and Emigration offices, one each in Kankesanthurai and Karaikal for this purpose, while preliminary measures have already commenced in this regard.
Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva has revealed that boats will not be provided initially by the governments of India and Sri Lanka for the ferry service, instead, boats will be provided under the tender called for by the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Under the new passenger ferry programme, a ferry will hold a capacity of a total of 150 passengers with each passenger’s allowed baggage weight of 100 kilos, while the cost of one-way travel is US$ 50.
Sri Lanka crisis: The Sri Lankan finance ministry officials held talks with its Indian counterparts to obtain the new temporary USD 1 billion facility for the purchase of essential items.
Sri Lanka would seek a new temporary credit facility of USD 1 billion from India to purchase essential items including food and medicine, the official media here reported on Monday.
Read here: Sri Lanka says IMF has approved $2.9 billion bailout for the cash-strapped economy
Sri Lanka received 333 million dollars, the first tranche of the USD 3 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout programme last week to overcome its economic crisis and catalyse financial support from other development partners.
The Sri Lankan finance ministry officials held talks with its Indian counterparts to obtain the new temporary USD 1 billion facility for the “purchase of essential foodstuff, medicines and other goods for the country,” the state-run Daily News newspaper reported.
Meanwhile, former Central Bank Governor Dr Indrajith Coomaraswamy, speaking at a discussion organised by the Centre for Banking Studies of the Central Bank, said, … the negotiations are also underway to secure an Indian rupee swap from RBI. The amount is still uncertain; it could be up to the equivalent of USD 1 billion. That is still being worked out.”
“This is expected to facilitate Sri Lanka-India trade,” the senior economist was quoted as saying by the Daily Mirror newspaper on Saturday.
Coomaraswamy added that the Sri Lankan government also began talks with Indian authorities to extend the repayment of the USD 1 billion credit line received last year and debt under the Asian Clearing Union by five years, the report said.
… we are trying to settle that money over a five-year period. It is still at early levels of negotiations,” he said, noting that the island nation was unlikely to receive such a long extension for the USD 400 million multi-currency swap facility, which has already been extended.
Last week, state minister of finance, Ranjith Siyambalapitiya said that Sri Lanka settled a loan instalment of USD 121 million from the previous facilities extended by India, using the first tranche of the IMF bailout package.
Sri Lanka has been struck by a catastrophic economic and humanitarian crisis sparked by years of mismanagement and the raging pandemic.
India has extended lines of credit worth over USD 4 billion to Sri Lanka in diverse sectors, including the supply of essential items, petroleum, fertilisers, development of railways, infrastructure, defence sector and renewable energy, according to the Indian High Commission here.
The Indian Oil Company’s local operation kept fuel supplies going in the face of miles-long queues forming at retail fuel stations mid-last year, as the state ran dry of forex to import petroleum.
The IMF’s Executive Board approved a 48-month extended arrangement under its Extended Fund Facility (EFF) last week with an amount of SDR 2.286 billion (about USD 3 billion).
The IMF bailout, the seventeenth in Sri Lanka’s history, was approved following prolonged discussions held up over Colombo’s unsustainable debt.
India was the first bilateral lender to issue financing assurances in the debt restructuring negotiations.
Read here: Sri Lanka secures IMF bailout amidst ongoing economic crisis: Timeline of events
President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who spearheaded the IMF negotiations, specially mentioned the contributions made by the Indian finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman to assist his government.
India has extended multi-pronged assistance to Sri Lanka during the peak of its economic and humanitarian crisis in line with its “Neighbourhood First” policy and as an earnest friend and partner of Colombo.
Sri Lanka is considering building small, offshore and onshore reactors, deeming nuclear power an environmentally and economically viable option. Currently, its electricity comes mainly from hydroelectric power plants. The government is vetting an existing contract between Rosatom and Bangladesh.
Colombo (AsiaNews) – The Sri Lankan government wants to work with Russia to generate nuclear energy; hence, it is looking at the possibility of installing small, offshore and onshore modular reactors or floating nuclear plants.
To this end, the cabinet has given its approval for application to two international conventions on nuclear energy and damage.
The goal is to diversify the country’s power supply and nuclear energy is viewed as a low-carbon option to achieve carbon neutrality (zero emissions) by 2050.
Currently, Sri Lanka gets most of its electricity from on hydroelectric power, followed by coal and fuel oil.
According to official sources at the Sri Lanka Atomic Energy Board, Russia put forward a proposal to construct a nuclear power plant in Sri Lanka;” and proposed an agreement for this purpose”.
Since it was a government-to-government program, cabinet approval was given to consider nuclear energy as an alternative source of energy to meet Sri Lanka’s future energy needs.”
According to a proposal put forward by Russia, a team of Russian experts will operate the power plant and train Sri Lankans within three years to operate it.
Thus, Sri Lanka hopes to have three barge-mounted offshore nuclear power plants with small modular reactors (SMRs) with a power capacity of up to 100 MW per unit.”
Currently, Russia is number one in the world for the most nuclear reactor projects, with three units in Russia and 34 units overseas in various phases of construction,” said several senior engineers who spoke to AsiaNews.
More specifically, Russia is active in its support for nuclear power [development] in Asia and is constructing the two-reactor, 2.4-GW Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant” in Bangladesh, which will be the country’s first nuclear power facility” and is expected to enter commercial operation next year.”
India too has installed two nuclear power plants from Russia’s state-owned Rosatom nuclear company.
In 2022, Sri Lankan officials submitted a self-evaluation report to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA),” sources familiar with the file said.
The aim is to obtain approval to establish an independent nuclear regulatory body, develop training programmes for nuclear power personnel, and provide supporting documents covering infrastructure issues,”.
For the sources, Electricity generation by nuclear power is more environmentally friendly than energy sources such as oil, coal and gas, and, with the exception of the initial construction cost, less expensive.”
Indeed, Unlike traditional power sources that can fluctuate over time, there is little possibility of cost inflation,” and this can have a significantly positive impact on Sri Lanka’s current economic situation.”
Thus, Sri Lanka is currently studying the agreement Russia has with Bangladesh in order to determine investments and repayment period.”
The Court of Appeal today (March 27) ordered the dismissal of a writ petition filed against Senior DIG in charge of the Western Province Deshabandu Tennakoon accusing him of assaulting protestors near Galle Face during the Gota Go Gama” protests, Ada Derana reporter said.
Accordingly, the petition has been ordered to be dismissed with costs when the relevant petition was taken up before the Appeals Court judge bench consisting of the President of the Court of Appeal Nissanka Bandula Karunaratne and Justice A. Marikkar.
The petition had been filed seeking an order be issued to the Attorney General ordering him to arrest SDIG Deshabandu Tennakoon as a suspect in the incident of attacking the Gota Go Gama” protest site, record statements and to present them before courts.
The court has issued this order after considering a preliminary objection raised by President’s Counsel Romesh de Silva, who appeared on behalf of the SDIG, when the petition was taken up this morning.
Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekera says the Cabinet of Ministers has granted approval to award licenses to China’s Sinopec, Australia’s United Petroleum and RM Parks of the USA, in collaboration with multinational oil and gas company – Shell plc, to enter the fuel retail market in Sri Lanka.
In a twitter message, he said that the Energy Committee and other relevant procurement committees had given their approval and recommendation to award the three companies the licenses to operate.
The minister stated that the three companies will each be allocated 150 dealer operated fuel stations, which are currently operated by Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC). A further 50 fuel stations at new locations will be established by each selected company, he said.
They will be granted a license to operate for 20 years to import, store, distribute and sell petroleum products in Sri Lanka, the minister tweeted.
In June 2022, the Cabinet of Ministers had green-lighted the proposal to open up Sri Lanka’s fuel import and retail sales market to companies from oil-producing nations.
In October the same year, the Petroleum Products (Special Provisions) Bill, paving way for new suppliers to enter as importers, distributors and retail operators for petroleum products, was approved by the Ministerial Consultative Committee on Power and Energy.
Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena said the government will further negotiate with the International Monetary Fund to provide more relief to low-income earners.
Addressing an event held to distribute free rice to low income earners under the government’s paddy purchase program in Maharagama, Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena said many countries have pledged to support Sri Lanka to recover from the economic crisis.
The Prime Minister said In the future, the government will work hard to make the effort to ease the cost of living successful by relaxing the rules for the import of goods.
They used a mixture of lime, volcanic ash, and water to create a building material that was both durable and easy to work with.
The word “concrete” comes from the Latin word “concretus,” which means “compact” or “condensed.”
Over time, the recipe for concrete was refined and improved, and it is now one of the most commonly used building materials in the world.
While the ancient Romans are credited with the initial invention of concrete, many other cultures have contributed to its development and refinement over the centuries.
The Kulasingha Concrete method, also known as the “Sri Lankan method,” is a traditional method of constructing reinforced concrete structures in Sri Lanka.
It was developed by a Sri Lankan engineer named Dr A. N. S. Kulasingha in the 1960s.
The method involves using a series of precast, interlocking concrete blocks that are designed to fit together like puzzle pieces. The blocks are made with a mix of cement, sand, and crushed stone, and are reinforced with steel bars. They are designed to be easy to assemble and disassemble, making them ideal for temporary structures or structures that may need to be moved or modified in the future.
The Kulasingha Concrete method has become popular in Sri Lanka due to its simplicity, affordability, and durability. It has been used to construct a variety of structures, including houses, schools, and bridges. The method has also been adapted for use in other countries, particularly in the developing world, where it has been used to construct low-cost housing and other infrastructure projects.
The Kulasingha Concrete method offers several benefits, including:
Affordability: The method is relatively inexpensive, as it uses locally available materials and does not require specialized equipment or training.
Durability: The concrete blocks used in the method are reinforced with steel bars, making them strong and resistant to damage from natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods.
Flexibility: The blocks are designed to fit together like puzzle pieces, making them easy to assemble and disassemble. This allows for the construction of temporary structures or structures that may need to be modified or moved in the future.
Sustainability: The method promotes the use of local materials and reduces the amount of waste generated during construction, making it a more sustainable option compared to other construction methods.
Speed of construction: The method allows for faster construction times compared to traditional construction methods, as the precast blocks can be manufactured offsite and quickly assembled on-site.
Versatility: The method can be used to construct a variety of structures, including houses, schools, and bridges, making it a versatile option for a range of construction projects.
Overall, the Kulasingha Concrete method offers a cost-effective, durable, and flexible option for construction projects, particularly in areas where resources are limited or access to specialized equipment or training is limited.
පැරණි රෝමවරුන් කොන්ක්රීට් වල පළමු අනුවාදය සොයා ගැනීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් ගෞරවයට පාත්ර වේ.
ඔවුන් දෙහි, ගිනිකඳු අළු සහ ජලය මිශ්රණයක් යොදා ගනිමින් කල් පවතින සහ වැඩ කිරීමට පහසු ගොඩනැගිලි ද්රව්යයක් නිර්මාණය කළහ.
“කොන්ක්රීට්” යන වචනය පැමිණෙන්නේ “කොන්ක්රීටස්” යන ලතින් වචනයෙන් වන අතර එහි තේරුම “සංයුක්ත” හෝ “ඝණීකෘත” යන්නයි.
කාලයාගේ ඇවෑමෙන්, කොන්ක්රීට් සඳහා වට්ටෝරුව පිරිපහදු කර වැඩිදියුණු කරන ලද අතර, එය දැන් ලෝකයේ බහුලව භාවිතා වන ගොඩනැගිලි ද්රව්ය වලින් එකකි.
පුරාණ රෝමවරුන් කොන්ක්රීට් වල ආරම්භක සොයාගැනීමේ ගෞරවයට පාත්ර වූ අතර, තවත් බොහෝ සංස්කෘතීන් සියවස් ගණනාවක් පුරා එහි සංවර්ධනයට සහ ශෝධනයට දායක වී ඇත.
කුලසිංහ කොන්ක්රීට් ක්රමය, “ශ්රී ලංකා ක්රමය“ ලෙසද හැඳින්වේ, එය ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ශක්තිමත් කරන ලද කොන්ක්රීට් ව්යුහයන් තැනීමේ සම්ප්රදායික ක්රමයකි.
එය 1960 ගණන්වල ශ්රී ලාංකික ඉංජිනේරුවෙකු වන ආචාර්ය A. N. S. කුලසිංහ විසින් සංවර්ධනය කරන ලදී.
මෙම ක්රමයට ප්රහේලිකා කෑලි මෙන් එකට ගැළපෙන පරිදි නිර්මාණය කර ඇති පූර්ව විකාශන, අන්තර් අගුලු දැමීමේ කොන්ක්රීට් කුට්ටි මාලාවක් භාවිතා කිරීම ඇතුළත් වේ. කුට්ටි සිමෙන්ති, වැලි සහ තලා දැමූ ගල් මිශ්රණයකින් සාදා ඇති අතර ඒවා වානේ තීරු වලින් ශක්තිමත් කර ඇත. ඒවා එකලස් කිරීමට සහ විසුරුවා හැරීමට පහසු වන පරිදි නිර්මාණය කර ඇති අතර, අනාගතයේදී චලනය කිරීමට හෝ වෙනස් කිරීමට අවශ්ය වන තාවකාලික ව්යුහයන් හෝ ව්යුහයන් සඳහා ඒවා වඩාත් සුදුසු වේ.
කුලසිංහ කොන්ක්රීට් ක්රමය ශ්රී ලංකාව තුළ ජනප්රිය වී ඇත්තේ එහි සරල බව, දැරිය හැකි මිල සහ කල්පැවැත්ම හේතුවෙනි. නිවාස, පාසල් සහ පාලම් ඇතුළු විවිධ ව්යුහයන් තැනීමට එය භාවිතා කර ඇත. මෙම ක්රමය වෙනත් රටවල, විශේෂයෙන්ම සංවර්ධනය වෙමින් පවතින රටවල, අඩු වියදම් නිවාස සහ අනෙකුත් යටිතල පහසුකම් ව්යාපෘති ඉදිකිරීම සඳහා භාවිතා කර ඇත.
කුලසිංහ කොන්ක්රීට් ක්රමය ප්රතිලාභ කිහිපයක් ලබා දෙයි.
දැරිය හැකි මිල: දේශීයව පවතින ද්රව්ය භාවිතා කරන අතර විශේෂිත උපකරණ හෝ පුහුණුව අවශ්ය නොවන බැවින් ක්රමය සාපේක්ෂව මිල අඩුය.
කල්පැවැත්ම: ක්රමයේ භාවිතා කරන කොන්ක්රීට් කුට්ටි වානේ බාර් වලින් ශක්තිමත් කර ඇති අතර, ඒවා ශක්තිමත් සහ භූමිකම්පා සහ ගංවතුර වැනි ස්වාභාවික විපත් වලින් සිදුවන හානියට ප්රතිරෝධී වේ.
නම්යශීලී බව: කුට්ටි ප්රහේලිකා කෑලි මෙන් එකට ගැළපෙන පරිදි නිර්මාණය කර ඇති අතර, ඒවා එකලස් කිරීම සහ විසුරුවා හැරීම පහසු කරයි. අනාගතයේදී වෙනස් කිරීමට හෝ මාරු කිරීමට අවශ්ය විය හැකි තාවකාලික ව්යුහයන් හෝ ව්යුහයන් ගොඩනැගීමට මෙය ඉඩ සලසයි.
තිරසාරත්වය: ක්රමය දේශීය ද්රව්ය භාවිතය ප්රවර්ධනය කරන අතර ඉදිකිරීම් අතරතුර ජනනය වන අපද්රව්ය ප්රමාණය අඩු කරයි, එය අනෙකුත් ඉදිකිරීම් ක්රමවලට සාපේක්ෂව වඩා තිරසාර විකල්පයක් බවට පත් කරයි.
ඉදිකිරීම් වේගය: මෙම ක්රමය මඟින් සම්ප්රදායික ඉදිකිරීම් ක්රමවලට වඩා වේගවත් ඉදිකිරීම් කාලයකට ඉඩ සලසයි, මන්ද පූර්ව විකාශන කුට්ටි පිටතින් නිෂ්පාදනය කළ හැකි අතර ඉක්මනින් ස්ථානගතව එකලස් කළ හැකිය.
බහුකාර්යතාව: නිවාස, පාසල් සහ පාලම් ඇතුළු විවිධ ව්යුහයන් තැනීමට ක්රමය භාවිතා කළ හැකි අතර, එය ඉදිකිරීම් ව්යාපෘති රාශියක් සඳහා බහුකාර්ය විකල්පයක් බවට පත් කරයි.
සමස්තයක් වශයෙන්, කුලසිංහ කොන්ක්රීට් ක්රමය ඉදිකිරීම් ව්යාපෘති සඳහා, විශේෂයෙන් සම්පත් සීමිත හෝ විශේෂිත උපකරණ හෝ පුහුණුව සඳහා ප්රවේශය සීමිත ප්රදේශවල පිරිවැය-ඵලදායී, කල් පවතින සහ නම්යශීලී විකල්පයක් ඉදිරිපත් කරයි.
Sasanka De Silva
Pannipitiya.
A rather forgettable news column rang alarm bells. Tucked away in the Sunday Times, at the very bottom segment of its ST2 supplement, its very last link, was a Project Syndicate article, clumsily headlined ‘How China lost its clout on Asia’ by Yoon Young-kwan, ‘Exclusive to the Sunday Times, SL’, datelined to ‘New Delhi’.
ee (11 March 2023) has recorded before that Project Syndicate is a US CIA outfit. At least one Syndicate article per week in the Wijeya Group media network appears to be a requirement by the US embassy’s news supply section. Yoon Young-kwan turns out to be ‘a former minister of foreign affairs’ of US-occupied Korea, where he is a’ Professor Emeritus of International Relations at Seoul National University’.
What is hilarious is that this article appears at the end of a week that saw some of the most important events in recent world history, signaled in February, when China publicly exposed US hegemony, launched a ‘global security initiative’, and offered a peace plan for Ukraine.
On March 10 China mediated an agreement between Saudi Arabia & Iran. On March 15 Moscow invited Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who then went to the UAE for talks. Iran & Iraq signed a security cooperation agreement to stop CIA-sponsored terror against Iran. King Salman of Saudi Arabia invited the Iran President to visit Riyadh. After at least 30 years of US-sponsored mass murder (20 years ago it illegally invaded Iraq) – China, ‘by peaceful means, changed the balance… within just one month’ (MoA}.
China’s President Xi went to Moscow to meet Russia’s President Putin. An article by Putin was published in the People’s Daily, while Russian media published a signed article by Xi. In the Ukraine, the US has openly come out against a ceasefire and peace talks, and is actively sabotaging the Chinese peace plan in Europe, and the Saudi-Iranian deal, while creating anarchy in Afghanistan.
On the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq (March 20) and 12th anniversary of the invasion of Libya (March 19), the US has their puppy dogs at the International Criminal Court (who the US will not submit to, and even vows to attack if they dare name a US war criminal) declare Russian President a ‘war criminal’.
So what ‘Asia’ then is this slavish US-Korean diplomat referring to, and what ‘clout’? The US media and education system promotes within its borders a funny definition of ‘Asia’ and ‘Asian’, which usually refers to East Asia aka the ‘Orient’. Such ignorance is reflected by this ‘former minister of foreign affairs’ who no doubt spends too much time in the USA or their Anglosphere. He reduces over 500 years of colonial invasion, claiming, ‘Since the dawn of international politics, smaller states have faced the formidable challenge of navigating great-power rivalries.’ At the same time, his country is not navigating anything but occupied by US troops, just as Japan and Taiwan are. Clout indeed. (ee Sovereignty, How China lost its clout on Asia)
‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’
e-Con e-News 19-25 March 2023
‘IMF denies influence in postponing SL polls’
‘Anti-corruption & governance reforms a central pillar of EFF-supported program – IMF’
‘Sri Lanka becomes first in Asia to have its governance come under IMF scrutiny’
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208 years after the English coup d’état of 1815, and 75 years after 1948 Soulbury independence, Sri Lanka may proudly proclaim itself a fully-fledged US colony. All that’s missing today is the transfer of the boots and military weaponry, including nuclear warships, from Diego Garcia. & Thanjavur. Or Thoothukudi.
On Monday, March 20, on the first day of the Northern spring, the IMF displayed their meagre largesse. On Thursday, March 22, the Central Bank Governor met the ‘heads of media organizations’ at the President’s office.
The IMF says it is providing ‘prioritized & sequenced recommendations.’ This prioritization & sequencing involves manipulation of an ever-willing media, attempting to besiege & beguile the vote banks.
The IMF just provided $15.6billion to the Ukraine for war. The $2.8bn of US IMF’s Extended Fund Facility (EFF) to Sri Lanka, spread out over 4 years, is also for a kind of war. A discount war. It is to engineer, lubricate and inspire acceptance – of the ‘restructuring’ of the ‘unsustainable debt’ of $84bn. Hoping to slather more debt on, while buttering select fractions of the country to dispossess the majority of the people and their aspirations.
Rather than delving deeper into the roots of our discontent, there was news this week of a combined campaign – under the World Bank (via Transparency International) & IMF’s definition of ‘corruption’ – to hit 2 members of the USA’s evolving manifestation of the latest axis of evil: Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka. Zimbabwe, as a citadel of African nationalism, and Sri Lanka as a mainspring of Sinhala Buddhism. The English news – has been hiding the massive US-led sanctions against a defiant Zimbabwe, after Africans began to take their land back, and – instead spreads calumny.
Meanwhile, ‘the dreams of those who raised crosses and distributed buriyani and vatalapan at Galle Face have come true’. The country has been graduated ‘from a mixed economy to a fully fledged capitalist economy’ (ee Economists, Dream).
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‘IMF expects the government to phase out import & exchange restrictions’
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We like the great ‘expectations’ part: ‘The IMF expects…’ This entire year, it has been the government that has been ‘expecting’ an IMF package. So now, what does the IMF expect?
The IMF this week ordered the removal of import controls & restrictions on Dollar flows, which then won adoring press releases, kiributh & firecrackers at the UNP headquarters, and the usual suspects: Chambers of Commerce, SL-Japan Business Council, etc. So why is IMF denying their influence in getting the government to keep postponing elections? Who is accusing the IMF of doing so?
Economists are now engulfing media platforms offering diagnoses and prognoses: ‘Structural economic reforms don’t always require government spending’, claims Shanta Devarajan, a US agent involved in the IMF-ordered ‘restructuring’ game. Devarajan however betrays epistemological strategy when he laments the government’s political inability to suppress cultivation of paddy. They wish to hobble further the Paddy Lands Act, which ordains that smallholders grow rice. The World Bank agenda (Devarajan is a WB stipendiary) prioritizes the pushing of cash crops and forcefeeding us subsidized US wheat (see ee Agriculture, Attack on Rice Production & Paddy Lands Act).
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‘Progressive US$3billion SL program will protect poorest’ – IMF
The IMF announcement on imports in & Dollar flows out, was accompanied by the US envoy Santa Chung distributing ‘36,000 tons of Triple Super Phosphate’, plus ‘fortified rice’ and ‘fortified vegetable oil’, plus ‘protein supplements using yellow split peas & Alaskan pink salmon’ to 95,000 children!
Industrialization based on rhythms and processes of rice production is key to Sri Lanka’s advance. So who are the US & IMF fooling? And why is Envoy Chung in such a frenzy? She is also diverting from the activities of her whiter compatriots who are busy infiltrating key sectors of the country & its economy. We cannot expect the IMF to shed its wrappings and tell us their ‘prioritized & sequenced’ game plan to corrupt (sorry, privatize) public officials even further (under the guise of anti-corruption of course):
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‘In June 1954 journalist Rhoda de Silva (later deported from Sri Lanka) wrote in Les Temps Moderne, the journal started by Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, about the extent of US ‘penetration’ in Sri Lanka effected under ‘diverse forms of camouflage’. De Silva wrote of Hollywood movies being filmed at strategic locations in Lanka; of the first Central Bank governor (John Exter) being a US citizen; and of other US nationals embedded in commercial, insurance and other companies here.’
‘The US government was putting ‘flagrant pressure’ on the SL government to break the Rice-Rubber agreement with China.’ She also pointed to ‘certain of the US methods of intervention that are less apparent’:
‘We wanted to discover to the slightest detail by precisely which methods the US controls the largest publishing house [Wijewardene-family-controlled Lakehouse] in Ceylon. We wanted to discover how they go about getting the US propagandists there to stir up so well the antagonism between the 2 different language groups… It would interest the Ceylonese people to learn for precisely what reasons the US ambassador and all his personnel frequent the Maldive Islands.’ (International McCarthyism: the Case of Rhoda Miller de Silva, Judy Pasqualge, ee 2 May 2020)’
• Having gone from the ‘aragalaya’ – demanding the government go to the IMF – the cry now is to how the new school principal, or viceroy, will have to impart timely discipline. How will it avoid the 16 previous IMF failures?
And what is different now from 1950 when the Central Bank of Sri Lanka was first set up by the USA? The goal then as now, was and is, to prevent industrialization in the colonies. Industrialization has always had to be held back by any means, and enable the grab of natural resources:
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‘In the USA, consumption per head of the critical raw materials
is 20 times that in the underdeveloped countries’
(see ee Focus, SBD de Silva, Export-Oriented Industrialization & the Free Trade Zone)
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• Imperialist powers have intermittently imposed plans & laws to ensure & extend their monopoly over industrialization:
Indian-made iron was as good as England’s, but a 19th century plan to buy local iron for a local project in India was shelved due to opposition by English manufacturers. So much for ‘free trade’. The Economist magazine in 1882 shuddered, accusing the Indian government of ‘travelling beyond its province… and where are schemes of this kind to end?’ (ee Random Notes)
England’s Iron Act of 1750 was just one of the English Trade & Navigation acts to hinder settler colonial manufacturing that competed with England’s home industry, and restricted the iron industry in their American colonies to the supply of raw metals.
200 years later, the USA in 1944 proposed the Morgenthau Plan to weaken Germany and Japan following World War II, eliminating its arms industry, and also removing and destroying other key industries, they deemed key to military power. This included the removal or destruction of industrial plants and equipment in that country (see ee Industry, Morgenthau Plan).
The US wars (cold & hot) on the USSR & China, forced the US to abandon the Morgenthau Plan. This plan was however exported to the rest of the world. To Africa, in particular, says Zimbabwean political analyst Rutendo Matinyarare. He examines the current sabotage of Eskom, South Africa’s electricity company, pointing to the Anglo-American Corporation’s destruction of Zimbabwe’s Ziscosteel, the southern hemisphere’s largest steel plant. Ziscosteel was sabotaged by the ‘monopoly makers’: companies like Anglo American, ISCO of South Africa, Lancashire Steel, and Voestalpine, which were manufacturing the machines that were used in smelting iron & steel in Zimbabwe. These are acts of war to undermine Black people, to maintain the white monopoly over industrialization. ee continues its investigation into the industrialization and electrification of South Africa. Reminding readers that, until 20 years ago, whites prevented 70% of South Africans from obtaining electricity…
Who would be the counterparts of Anglo American plc in Sri Lanka? Iron & steel production has been all but abolished in Sri Lanka. (Some may object & point to a few relatively isolated workshops; however, industrialization has to be examined in relation to transforming the economy.)
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• Africa is just across the waters from us, and yet we hear little about their real story. We would think, sharing maybe even 3 colonial languages (Portuguese, Dutch & English), we would know more. In fact, we know less. Our English Department is of no help. They are still following England’s Heinemann’s versions of African literature: Things Fall Apart, etc.
We are supposed to follow the white fashions in culture and foreign policy, and thus must follow too, the white pandemonium. We see Somalia and Zimbabwe increasingly creeping into the synonym section under permanent dysfunction. And yet, there are major features we have shared, and not just after colonial plunder (see, ee Random Notes, Djibouti).
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• A strange coincidence. ee continues its focus on the enormous power that multinational companies (MNCs) wield in determining industrial policy, and overall economic policy. Last week, ee began a series on Southern Africa’s industrialization, delving into DJ ‘Laxapana’ Wimalasurendra’s link to a Boer prisoner & engineer, and Cecil Rhodes’ Victoria Falls fraud (ee 18 March 2023). This trail led us to Niagara Falls, Westingthouse and that famed 1893 Chicago World Exhibition (that Anagarika Dharmapala went to), also recalling the undermining of Wimalasurendra’s hydroelectric scheme by Pearson, Bousteads and the Shell Oil Co, etc. (also see ee Building Blocks). This week’s ee also looks at the MNCs behind the sabotage of industrialization in Africa: One in particular, Anglo American plc has enormous power in Africa, and recalls the power of MNCs such as Unilever plc in Sri Lanka. These multinational companies run the politicians and the media.
Two or 3 news items on Africa struck ee‘s eye this week. Whenever Africa appears in the English newspapers in Sri Lanka, coverage strangely resembles the ways in which Sinhala villagers are represented. It’s usually caricature. And true to form there was this week’s tabloid-style sensationalism about: ‘A Zimbabwe preacher with links to a controversial Sri Lankan ‘prophet’…accused of gold-smuggling’. This is from ‘an undercover operation by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit (I-Unit), which is targeting Zimbabwe’s President and his family’. ‘Al Jazeera reporters, posing as Chinese nationals who were looking to launder large sums of money, were offered several ways to remove all stains of corruption from their dirty cash.’ The main Al-J informant is ‘Karen Greenaway, a former US FBI investigator who tracks international money laundering schemes.’ Apparently, the US and EU sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe ‘make it difficult for the government to export gold because of the additional scrutiny on officials in power’. (see ee Sovereignty, Zimbabwe preacher)
So why are we being told about this issue? On the face of it: the story splashes the photograph of Mahinda Rajapakse, with the Zim preacher (circled in red). Also, there is the admirable US (IMF) zeal to root out ‘corruption’. This ee Focus examines the differences between how sanctions are applied to Black countries and white-ruled countries, and, in the end, what real corruption and criminality is all about:
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Rhodesia was a white English settler state,
set up by the British South Africa Company (BSAC),
and imposed over and stolen from the people of MaDzimbabwe since at least 1890.
Under siege, within & without, the white settlers proclaimed
a Unilateral Declaration of Independence from England in 1965
over division and investment of profits.
White Rhodesia was then subject to UN-led sanctions.
This essay below divulges how these sanctions were ‘cleverly’ undermined by white governments, led by the USA, and provides insights into the undermining of countries’ economies.
After the African war of liberation there was suspended,
the English as usual reneged on their promises,
and when the country’s African leadership started to reclaim the land,
the English turned Zimbabwe into a synonym for ‘failed state’,
and its leadership, particularly Robert Mugabe as synonym for ‘Black dictator’.
These stories as with all widely disseminated English stories turn out to be false as usual.
The other Africa-related item was the Wijeya Group Daily FT’s extended interview with one ‘consultant’ Ronnie Peiris, who is set to hold forth on 24 April in Colombo on ‘Integrated Performance Management’ needed to achieve at least 75% of the IMF’s plans. His bio: ‘Group Finance Director, John Keells Holdings, Managing Director (before the Finance Director), Anglo American Corporation (Central Africa), Planning Manager at Lever Brothers (Ceylon), Board Member in large corporations’. How’s that!? Anglo-American, Unilever & Keells! Hallelujah!
Not sure if this is the same Ronnie Peiris, the ‘collector’ and ‘bagman’ for Chandrika Bandaranaike, and of Water’s Edge fame. But Peiris is now laying down the latest multinational capitalist gospel truth of tinsel-thin social responsibility, diversity, inclusiveness & equality (DIE!) aka Neo-Woke (weaponized astro-turf posing as grassroots), and singing from the MNC choir sheet about ‘sharing’ (no mention of shareholders) and of ‘stakeholders’, including pliant unions – ‘through a combination of top-down and bottom-up approaches’.
The hymn Peiris is singing goes: ‘IMF’s got you by the you-know-what but that’s-not-enough…’ This current hymn amends the pure keenness of the earlier hymn, which was ‘Go to the IMF, you Stupid.’ There’s also other hymns sung by this ‘stupid’ choir: ‘Show us Everything O Naked Lord’ & ‘Blessed are the Poor’. This is for the IMF to act a little more transparent and be kind to the ‘poor’, which it uses as a ‘surplus’ army to discipline the power of the working class (see ee Workers, Integrated Performance Management).
Last ee pointed to the farce of India’s Mahindra claiming ‘assembly’ as manufacture. Also noting the so-called manufacture of Japan’s Senaro motorcycles, and their adoption as the mode of travel by the SL President’s pettier officials. This week we are told: ‘Sri Lanka’s Senaro Motors to export locally assembled motorbikes to Kenya’. So what makes ‘Senaro Motor Corporation, a motorcycle manufacturing company in Sri Lanka’?
‘Around a third of the spare parts used in the motorbikes are manufactured in the firm’s assembly factory in Yakkala, a suburb of capital Colombo’. Which parts we are not told. Senaro ‘is able to import raw materials for spare parts as it has a special certification from the Ministry of Industries… When the bikes are exported, they will be labeled as Made in Sri Lanka and that is a proud moment for us!’ Proud, indeed! Sri Lanka’s good name (at least, among Africans) is being used by Japanese MNCs as a means to avoid export quotas…
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‘The continuing foreign exchange crisis is broadly attributed to flawed policies,
such as tax cuts, debt monetization, banning fertilizer & agrochemical imports,
real appreciation of the exchange rate, etc. However, the issues at hand can be also
characterized as a liquidity trap in the foreign exchange market,
enforced by the economic structure and exploitative market structure,
in the import & export sector of the economy, in the long run.’
(see last ee, All praise for Lanka’s saviours!)
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• Which brings us back to the slobbering silence of the mutton-eaters: earlier this month (ee 04 March 2023) we wondered about the hush hush of the League of Multinational Corporations (LMNC) in Sri Lanka, formed in 2018 by 7 MNCs: Unilever, Ceylon Tobacco Company (CTC, ie, British American Tobacco), Baur & Co, Heineken, HSBC, Indian Oil Co, and Mastercard.
These powerful MNCs, with war chests bigger than most countries’ budgets, demanded of Sri Lanka: ‘Everything needs to be fixed in the context of international standards, in terms of human rights & labor laws too.’ And ‘fixing’, as in fraud, is what they do best!
So how does the IMF ‘agreement’ this week, fulfil their demands? Unilever plc is Sri Lanka’s Anglo American plc. Let’s nominate Unilever as the mahamolakaru of Sri Lanka, behind the long-term terrorism perpetrated on the country.
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• Anglo American plc has its origins in the British South Africa Co (BSAC) of Cecil Rhodes. Settler states were founded by companies led by genocidaires, called all kinds of fancy names – privateer, buccaneer, soldier of fortune – romanticized by the arts. The Virginia Company (US) of De La Warre. The Hudson Bay Co (Canada). The West India Company (Caribbean)’s Henry Morgan. The East India Company (England) of Robert Clive.
Nowadays, these settler units are considered creatures of the oil and mining conglomerates run by an Anglo-American Rothschild-Rockefeller cabal: BHP (Australia), Power Corporation (Canada), Anglo-American (South Africa). In Sri Lanka, Lipton’s Tea Garden has been transformed into Unilever’s Fair&Lovely…
With all its make-up – one of the largest chemical importers into the country – Unilever slinks in the shadows of media-smoke & mirrors.
Russia’s brave decision to confront NATO, to ‘denazify’ and disarm the US arms industry’s proxies in the Ukraine, will eventually require the formation of a broader anti-imperialist alliance, which this week’s historic visit by China’s leader Xi Jinping surely signifies. There is a clear link between the Nazism & Fascism of Europe, and the slave & colonial relations of the last 500 years. London & Washington have been put on notice…
Last Wednesday altogether 9 districts and 211 upazilas across Bangladesh have been declared as homeless and landless free. The number of rehabilitated people is 3,856,505. The beneficiary includes widows, deserted women, bedes, low-caste people, hijras and climate refugees. This is a significant achievement in ensuring fundamental human rights. Bangladesh is lauded for its recent socio-economic development. It has made commendable progress in education and health sector, reducing gender gap, poverty elevation and handling climate change vulnerability. Despite national and international conspiracies the existing legal system has ensured the trial and punishment of the war criminals. Bangladesh has accommodated more than a million of Rohingyas, which demonstrate its commitment to protect human rights.
Some observation on the human rights report of the USA State Department (2022)
The currently published human rights report of the USA State Department gives some interesting perspective on human rights discourse. Since the report is quite big I will focus on few pertinent issues. The report starts with the claims that the 2018 national election of Bangladesh was not considered free and fair. Further it claims that the election witnessed low voter turnout, intimidation, irregularities, and violence during campaigns. The USA stood silent in 1970 when the Awami League won landslide victory in the election. Why democracy and rule of law was not their concern at that time? Since 1975 undemocratic governments have ruled Bangladesh for nearly 20 years which did not allow the State institutions to flourish. Since 2009 elections are taking place at periodic intervals which manifest formal democracy and the country is striving for substantive democracy.
The said USA 2022 report also states that leaders and members of some political party in the country, could not exercise their constitutional freedoms of speech and assembly because of harassment by law enforcement authorities. But in reality, political parties in Bangladesh enjoy their political rights. They always protest in the street. Last 10 December, 2022 was the best example to Understand it. They can be critic against government. They are talking whatever they are thinking. Media alwyas promote their rights. Human chain, movement, protest are being organized regularly on the streets in the Capital Dhaka. We can not see any kind of government obstacle in this regard. Is not a freedom of specch, movement, political rights?
The report of the USA further mentions that the Rohingya refugees do not have any freedom of movement and the government did not register births for nor extend citizenship to Rohingya refugees born in the country”. We have to remember that Bangladesh did not provide refugee status to the Rohingya; instead recognize them as forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals. Bangladesh is not a party to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees or the 1967 Protocol. As a result, the government is not under legal obligation to uphold the basic rights enshrined in this treaty. Therefore freedom of movement, formal education, or livelihood opportunities could not be afforded to the Rohingya population. Bangladesh accommodated these destitute Rohingyas on humanitarian ground and the government is committed to repatriate this huge number of people who has the potential to spoil our national security. The concern of the USA for the Rohingyas can make one question apart from enacting Burma Act, what effective measure did the USA take to ensure human rights of these Rohingyas?
The report of the USA State Department also states that the government prevented war crimes suspects from the 1971 independence war from leaving the country.” If the suspects of war crimes leave the country to avoid legal proceedings and later they do not return then how justice would be ensured? Bangladesh does not have agreement with many countries to repatriate criminals. History shows that even the USA did not take any initiatives to send back one of the murderers of Bangabandhu.
Referring Freedom House’s annual report the said USA report mentioned that corruption is endemic”. According to Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB), Bangladesh stood first among 180 countries in corruption index from 2001 to 2005. Gradually it became 13th in 2009, 16th in 2013 and 17th in 2017. TIB report shows that in the last 10 years the position of Bangladesh in corruption index remained the same. It is imperative to note that Bangladesh has made tremendous economic progress in recent years and many economists also opine that during the early years of development some corruption might take place. The government announced zero tolerance against corruption and now social movement against corruption is desirable.
The USA human rights report is based on the information of various non-governmental organizations. Some of these organizations are not non-partisan and have reputation of producing false news.
Human rightsU discourse: some perspective
The counter-terrorist response of 9/11 carried out in many parts of the world also marks human rights abuses. Human rights violations were considered as an inevitable part of that struggle. But those violations also fueled more terrorism, human rights abuses and mass migration. Though at times the USA imposes sanction on individuals and governments for committing human rights abuses it also forms alliance with abusive government and hence violates international human rights law. Tom Malinowski the former US Assistant Secretary of State once commented that some use human rights only as a club to hit governments they disagree with, while allowing those they are allied with to commit violations with impunity (Andrew Gilmour, March 2018). The USA enthusiastically proclaimed the rights of Iranians to protest for a better life without getting killed, but it is silent when it comes to Palestinian protestors doing the same thing.
The self declared ‘’Responsibility to Protect” invoked by the USA is viewed by many people beyond the west as examples of Western values and policies being imposed on them from outside. Wang Wenbin spokesman of Chinese Foreign Ministry remarked that the Human Rights Practices of Various Countries’ published by the US is an example of political lies and bias and shows US dominance and abuse. The double standard of the super powers and their selective approach to some extent enables the actual violators of human rights to commit more abuses. In the rapidly changing geo-political order human rights plays a major role in the rhetoric of the opposing sides. In essence human rights are subjected to the enormous challenge of manipulation of the superpowers which want to impose imperial designs on the world in the name of peace. Therefore, issue of human rights should be considered in the context of society, law and order situation, extremism, terrorism, growing intolerance and stability of the specific country.
Bangladesh understands human rights are not luxury and it is impossible to achieve sustainable development and peace without having human rights as a basis. The State of Bangladesh is committed to prevent abuses, protect rights and promote values not to please any superpower but to ensure fundamental rights of its citizens, human development and sustainable socio-economic growth. Hence constructive engagement through technical cooperation to promote human rights should be welcomed but any biased statement to establish dominance must be protested.
අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතාගේ ප්රධානත්වයෙන්, බුද්ධශාසන හා ආගමික කටයුතු අමාත්ය විදුර වික්රමනායක මහතා සහ විපක්ෂ නායක සජිත් ප්රේමදාස මහතාගේ සහභාගිත්වයෙන් බුද්ධශාසන අරමුදලේ සාමාජිකයෝ 2023.03.24 දින කොළඹ අග්රාමාත්ය කාර්යාලයේදී රැස්වුහ.
මෙහිදී බුද්ධ ශාසන අරමුදලේ වත්මන් තත්වය, පසුවිපරම හා ප්රගතිය පිළිබඳ පිරික්සින.
එමෙන්ම බුද්ධ ශාසනයේ, භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේගේ, විහාරස්ථාන ඇතුළු බෞද්ධ සිද්ධස්ථානයන්හි උන්නතිය වෙනුවෙන් වන මතු යෝජනා පිළිබඳව සාකච්ඡාවට බඳුන් විය.
අග්රාමාත්ය ලේකම් අනුර දිසානායක, බුද්ධශාසන හා ආගමික කටයුතු අමාත්යංශයේ ලේකම් සෝමරත්න විදානපතිරණ, වැඩ බලන මහ භාරකාර . එම්. නාලිකා, රාජ්ය ව්යවසාය දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව අධ්යක්ෂක ආර්.ඒ.එල්. උදය කුමාර යන කමිටු සාමාජිකයෝ මෙම අවස්ථාවට එක්වුහ.
අග්රාමාත්යවරයා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ මහ කන්නයේ රජයේ වී මිලදී ගැනීම් සහ වී බැහැර කිරීම් වැඩසටහන යටතේ අඩු ආදායම්ලාභීන්ට නොමිලේ සහල් බෙදාහැරීම 2023.03.26 දින මහරගමදී සිදු කළ අවස්ථාවේදී ය.
එහිදී අදහස් දැක්වූ අග්රාමාත්ය වරයා –
අස්වැන්න කපා රටේ අස්වැන්න අඩු ප්රදේශ වලට ලබා දීමේ හැකියාව දැන් ලැබී තිබේ . විශේෂයෙන් සහල් අතින් විශාල ඉදිරි පියවරක් තැබීමට හැකි වී ඇත. ගොවි ජනතාවට මුහුණ දීමට සිදුවුණු විවිධ ගැටලු ප්රමුඛතා කරුණු අතරට ගනිමින් ලිහිල් කිරීමට රජය ක්රියා කළේය.
විශාල හැකියාවක් විස්වාසයක් ඇති අපේ රටේ ගොවි ජනතාව මහපොළොවෙන් සහල් නිෂ්පාදනය කරන්නට පුළුවන්කම ඇති කළා. ඒ සමඟම ඔබද අපද ජීවත්වන සෑම ග්රාම සේවක කොට්ටාශයකම ගමින් ගමට ඇති ගෙවතු වගාව වැඩි කිරීමට උනන්දුව ඇති කරන්නට කටයුතු දියත් කළා.
ඒ වෙනුවෙන් මහරගම ප්රාදේශීය ලේකම් කාර්යාලයත් ග්රාමසේවක කොට්ඨාස හතළිස් එක්කමත් යොමුවීම ගැන ස්තුතිවන්ත වෙනවා.
ග්රාමසේවක කොට්ඨාස වල ජීවත් වන සැමට අලූත් උත්සාහයකට එක්වෙන්නට පුළුවන්කම ලැබුණා.අපි කුමක් හෝ දෙයක් වගා කරලා එහි ඵලය ඉක්මනින් භුක්ති විඳින්නට පුළුවන් මහා පින්වන්ත ජාතියක්.
වැඩි වුනොත් දවස් හැටයි යන්නේ. දවස් හැටෙන් කුමක් හෝ දෙයක් මේ මහ පොළොවෙ පැල කළොත් වගා කළොත් පල නෙළන්නට පුළුවන් මහ පොළොවක් අපේ මහපොළොව.
ප්රාදේශීය ලේකම් කාර්යාලයේ නිලධාරින් මෙන්ම ගමින් ගමට ගෙවතු වගාවෙන් එක් වුනු සෑම නිවහන කම සියලුදෙනාටම අපි අපේ ගෞරවය කෘතවේදීත්වය පිරිනැමේ.
දිස්ත්රික්කයට අවශ්ය තරමට වඩා අතිරික්තයක් තියෙන තවත් දිස්ත්රික්කයකට යවන්නට පුලුවන් කමක් ඇති තත්ත්වයට හම්බන්තොට දිස්ත්රික්කය පත්කිරීමට හැකිවීම සුවිශේෂී තත්ත්වයක්.දකුණු පළාතේ ගොවි ජනතාව සමග ගිය සතියෙ මේ පිළිබඳව දීර්ඝ වශයෙන් සාකච්ඡා කළ බව අගමැතිවරයා කීවේය.
ඒ දිස්ත්රික්කයේ අතිරික්තය කොළඹ දිස්ත්රික්කයට එවීම සඳහා එකඟ වීමත් සමඟ අපේ දිසාපති තුමා විසින් එය සම්බන්ධීකරණය කොට ජනාධිපතිතුමාගේ තීරණය පරිදි අඩු ආදායම්ලාභී ආහාර දුෂ්කරතාවයන්ට මුහුණ දෙන හැම පවුලකටම සහල් ප්රමාණයක් ලබාදීමේ වැඩපිළිවෙළ ආරම්භ කරන්නට පුළුවන් වීම සැබැවින්ම ජයග්රහණයක්.
අපි හුඟක් කෑගහනව වාහන වලට දෙන තෙල් ප්රමාණය මදි කියලා. වාහන වලට දෙන තෙල් ප්රමාණය පුච්චනවා. එය පිටරටින් අපි ගේන්නේ. ඒකට විදේශ විනිමය අවශ්යයි.ඒක පුච්චන දෙයක්. නමුත් සහල් ගොවි ජනතාව නිෂ්පාදනය කලාම එය තවත් අඩුවෙන් තියෙන තැන්වලට ප්රදේශවලට ලබා දෙන්න පුළුවන්කම ලැබෙනවා.
කෙසේ හෝ අපි රටේ තිබුණු මූලික ගැටළු විසඳාගෙන රටවැසියාට හොඳ හෙට දවසක් ගොඩනැගීම සඳහා කැපවිය යුතුය. මහජන මන්ත්රීවරයා ලෙස හතලිස් අවුරුද්දක් මහරගම ජනතාව සමඟ මම වැඩ කරලා තිබෙනවා.අපට දිය හැකි සෑම සහයෝගයක් ම වැඩිහිටියන් තරුණයන් බාලයන්ට ලබාදීමට ක්රියා කෙරේ.
දේශපාලන මත භේදයක් නොමැතිව එම සේවා ඔබ වෙනුවෙන් එදා වගේ අදත් ඉෂ්ට කිරීමට අප බැඳී සිටි.සහයෝගයෙන් එකමුතුවෙන් අත්වැල් බැඳගෙන අපේ රට මේ මුහුණ දෙන අමාරු කාලය අපි පසු කරමු. ඒ විශ්වාසයේ මගට අප අද පැමිණ තිබේ .අපට ජාත්යන්තරව ලෝකයේ රටවල් සියල්ලම පාහේ දැන් උදව් දෙන්න පුළුවන්කම ප්රකාශ කරලා තියෙනවා.
වත්මන් රජයේ ප්රතිපත්ති හේතුවෙන් විදේශ රටවල් සමඟ බැංකු සමග ගනුදෙනු කිරීමේ පුළුල් අවස්ථාව දැන් උදා වී තිබේ.ගනුදෙනු නවතා තිබුණු සෑම බැංකුවක් ම සහාය පළ කර ඇත.හැම බැංකුවක්ම ඉකුත් සතියේ සිට මෙරට බැංකු සමග ක්රියා කරන තීරණය අපේ රට ගොඩ ගැනීමේ ක්රියාදාමයේ පළමු ජයග්රහණයයි.
ඉදිරියේ දී භාණ්ඩ ආනයනය ට තිබෙන නීති ලිහිල් කොට තවත් ජීවන වියදම සැහැල්ලු කිරීමට දරන උත්සාහය සාර්ථක කරන්නට අපි කැපවී වැඩ කරමු.
තමුන්නාන්සේලාගේ මහා ජන වරමෙන් පාර්ලිමේන්තු ගිය මන්ත්රීවරයෙක් ලෙස අපේ රටේ ඉතිහාසයේ ලොකුම අන්තරාව ට වැටුණු වෙලාවේ තමයි අග්රාමාත්ය ධූරය මම භාරගත්තේ.
ජනාධිපතිතුමා ජනාධිපති ධූරය බාර ගත්තේ.
ඒ ඔබත් අපත් රටත් මේ අර්බුදයෙන් ගොඩ ගෙන යළිත් රටට ඒ විශ්වාසනීය මාර්ගය සකසා දෙන්නටයි. අඩු ආදායම්ලාභීන් පිළිබඳව මේ කරගෙන යන තොරතුරු එකතු කිරීමේ වැඩපිළිවෙළ හමාර වූ වහාම එම දීමනාව වැඩිකිරීම සඳහා රජය ජාත්යන්තර මූල්ය අරමුදල සමග සාකච්ඡා ආරම්භ කරලා තියෙනවා.
අද ආරම්භ කළ මේ වැඩසටහන ලංකාවේ සෑම දිස්ත්රික්කයක ම ග්රාමසේවක කොට්ඨාශ කිහිපයකින් හෝ ආරම්භ කර ඉදිරි දින කිහිපයේ දී නිමාවට පත් කරන්නට අපට පුළුවන්කම ලැබේවි.මේක අපේ ගොවි ජනතාව ලබාදුන් ජයග්රහණයක්. රටින් ගෙනල්ලා නෙවෙයි. එය ආඩම්බරයෙන් සතුටින් භුක්ති විදින්නට කටයුතු කරන්න කියන ටික සඳහන් කරනවා.
පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී යදාමිණි ගුණවර්ධන, හිටපු පළාත් සභා මන්ත්රීවරුන් වන උපාලි කොඩිකාර, සලෝචන ගමගේ, කොළඹ දිසාපති කේ.ජී විජේසිරි, මහරගම ප්රාදේශීය ලේකම් දිල්රුක්ෂි වල්පොල ඇතුළු නිලධාරීන් මෙම අවස්ථාවට සහභාගි වූහ.
අග්රමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය.
President Wickremesinghe provided his insights on the early implementation of these initiatives when the delegation led by Pankaj Jain, Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum Natural Gas, met him, the Indian High Commission here said.
A high-level Indian delegation called on Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe here on Sunday and briefed him on the developments in the jointly-identified priority areas for bilateral collaboration in the crucial energy sector.
President Wickremesinghe provided his insights on the early implementation of these initiatives when the delegation led by Pankaj Jain, Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum Natural Gas, met him, the Indian High Commission here said.
It said India would gift Sri Lanka 500 solar-powered indoor cooking systems.
The Lanka India Oil Company (LIOC), the local operator of Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), said the visiting Secretary to the ministry of power and natural gas Jain and Chairman IOC Shrikant Madhav Vaidya had earlier visited the Trincomalee eastern Sri Lanka’s IOC terminal.
Sri Lanka and India run a joint venture storing fuel in the World War II time storage tanks in Trincomalee.
In January last year, Sri Lanka formally signed an agreement with India to jointly develop the oil tank farms in Trincomalee. The joint venture was finalised amid growing concerns over China’s influence in the island nation.
Jain had inaugurated three new LIOC retail fuel sheds in their ongoing expansion whilst addressing the chamber of commerce and attended a meeting of chief executive officers of leading Indian businesses based in Sri Lanka.
Chairman IOC Vaidya said he was delighted to have met former World Cup-winning Sri Lankan cricket captain Arjuna Ranatunga.
The top-level Indian delegation on the petroleum sector is expected to have extensive talks with their Lankan counterparts for further collaboration, LIOC said.
A new passenger terminal at Kankesanturai (KKS) port, built at a cost of Rs 144 million is to be completed by the second week of April, with the first ferry from the Indian port of Karaikal, in Pondicherry expected on 29 April.
According to the Minister of Ports, Shipping and Aviation, Nimal Siripala de Silva, the first ferry line of the new ferry service between Pondicherry and Kankesanthurai (KKS) is scheduled to call on 29 April 2023.
According to Minister Siripala, the passenger terminal is built at the KKS port, with funding of Rs. 144 million from the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA). The total construction of the new terminal has been entrusted to be carried out by the Sri Lanka Navy.
It is learnt that basic constructions of the passenger terminal have already been begun by the SL Navy with work expected to complete by the second week of April.
According to the Ministry of Ports, Shipping, and Aviation, ferry service owners have revealed that $ 50 will be charged from a passenger for a one way trip, and each passenger will be afforded a baggage of 100 kg.
A ferry will carry 150 passengers at a time, and will take around 4 hour’s journey from Karaikal Port to KKS. Ferry Service owners emphasised that only day time operations will be in effect during the first stage of operations” a ministry official said.
Minister Siripala also said that with the launch of the new ferry service, the expansion activities of the KKS port are expedited. Since the credit grant facility granted by India for these constructions at present is insufficient, an additional credit facility of $ 16 million has been requested from the Indian Exim Bank,” Minister Siripala explained.
The Committee on Public Enterprise (COPE) has investigated numerous cases of procedural impropriety and financial misappropriation at the University of Peradeniya.
This comes in the wake of an evaluation of current performance and status of issues raised in the Auditor General’s report from 2020 and 2021.
The COPE Chairman, Professor Ranjith Bandara attributed the lack of financial accountability and the execution of past directives due to the non -participation of members of the Audit and Management Committee.
Salient questions were asked of the University hierarchy who were present as to what would motivate these individuals to abscond proceedings with massive amounts of monies that are not properly accounted for.
1.Scrutiny into payment of salaries by staff in violation of attendance frequency
The Committee further queried the violation of a University Grants Commission circular in University Academic support staff presenting their attendance record. The committee requested that procedure be immediately implemented to address this violation.
Concurrently, an issue was also raised about lecturers who go overseas for study through scholarships received through the government and have dues owed to the universities. The Committee directed that these dues need to be effectively collected and advised the University Grants Commission to give them direction to come back to Sri Lanka and serve within the universities domestically for at least a period of 5 years following their overseas training.
2.Inquiry into unsubstantiated expenses incurred by the University Board
Numerous financial misappropriation issues were addressed. Some of which included the rationale behind the purchase of table tennis tables which cost less than what was actually disbursed. On a similar note, the Chairman of the Committee also requested the physical presence of the director who authorized the renovations of the Arunachalam and Wijewardena Campus hostels for clarification as to the large sums of money that had been allocated accordingly. The Chair further addressed the compulsory leave and subsequent dismissal of the former Registrar without so much as an inquiry into the mismanagement of funds.
3.Inquiry into funds allocated and rents not collected by the University for various buildings under its purview, with a timeline by the Committee on restitutive measures.
With regards to building projects around the campus, the Chairman directed the Vice Chancellor to appoint a committee to look into the foundation of the central building of the engineering faculty due to subsequent costs incurred as a result of improper due diligence and utilise a deposit the University already has to begin putting up a structure on the existing foundation. Concurrently a purported art gallery which is in dilapidated condition was directed by the committee to be renovated per the University’s plans expeditiously with an update to be furnished within 30 days.
The Chairman also requested the Survey General’s support in ensuring that lands conferred to the University of Peradeniya would not be encroached on.
Discrepancy regarding uncollected rent from buildings owned by the University leased to the Samurdhi ministry was addressed. The Chairman of the Committee directed the university to either revise the owed rent from the Valuation Department or request the Samurdhi Director General to hand the property back to the University. The timeline for this was 06 months to review and collect all outstanding dues.
4.Attention to a purported software system that is yet to come online.
The Committee queried the continual payment of a license fee for a software system which purportedly was built for use. The Chairman pointed out that software systems that collect a subscription are ones that are already existing with the option to modify it. With the project originally set to be completed by almost 04 years ago, the Chairman directed the Board to resolve this expeditiously and provide an update of proceedings within the next 30 days.
The meeting was adjourned with the revelation that the 0.01% of revenue generated through self-funding activity has not been disbursed to any university from January 2018 to date.
Follow up to all matters to ensure real-time accountability will take place in 03 months from now per the direction of the Chairman of the Committee.
Minister of Agriculture Mahinda Amaraweera says that the programme to distribute rice free of charge for 2.9 million families will commence tomorrow (March 27).
Thus, the government has planned to distribute the paddy bought from farmers during this Maha season after converting them into rice.
The Agricultural Minister also highlighted that the government has decided to provide 10 kilograms of free rice per family for 02 months.
Furthermore, the free rice distribution will take place in several districts including Colombo, Gampaha, Kalutara, Kandy, Ratnapura, Galle and Matara as per the requests, the minister said.
Minister of Transport and Highways Bandula Gunawardene states that permission will be granted for anyone to carry out trade activities on the sides of the roads in all parts of the island during the upcoming New Year festive season.
Joining an event held in Galle, the minister expressed that the producers will be allowed to sell their goods on the sides of the roads temporarily, from April 01 to April 18.
So far, we have reserved such special locations on the sides of the roads for selling garment items in several places including Maharagama city.”
Accordingly, we will grant the opportunity for the producers who are temporarily engaged in self-employment to sell their products directly to the consumers in the same way in other parts of the country until the end of the festival season”, he said
Furthermore, Minister Gunawardene also emphasized that the manufacturers are temporarily entitled to this permission to sell their products on the sides of the roads without making permanent constructions in the specific areas with the approval and supervision of the Divisional Secretary of the respective area.
The JVP of present day is the opposite of the JVP as per the ideology of its founder Rohana Wijeweera. This is why, the JVP present day stalwarts have nothing to do with the Wijeweera family. So what is the ideology that the present day JVP promotes? In all reality, they too do not understand what they stand for. Take the speeches or statements of the main polit bureau leaders – they are controversial & conflict with each other and even themselves. Adding to the malady is the entrance of the NPP that unabashedly promotes neo-liberalism thus subtly forcing us to conclude that the masterminds & sponsors of JVP propose to slowly replace JVP with NPP under a new leadership & new account to kickstart another phase of anti-social & anti-national agenda.
While it is everyone’s guess where JVP gets its funds from though it is clear that a large diaspora network contribute to it regularly, in view of JVP’s history of plugging itself to the government in power, it must be recipient of foreign intel funding as well. Clearly JVP has funds from different sources to be used for a variety of causes. This is where their ambiguity lies and thus the conflicts of interest & their inability to focus on a national plan other than following orders of those that fund them.
Having understood the funding aspect & its influence over JVP leadership, we need to look at the operational change of the JVP from its violent past to the indoctrination that is taking place teamed up with another breakaway faction the peratugami. Though we may presume or we are made to believe these two entities oppose each other, in more ways than one, they follow the same objectives.
To briefly recapture the past JVP for the many who think JVP are angels – it was not too long ago that the JVP took to arms, killed police, armed forces, even their parents, used a chit of paper to put every house & business into darkness, burnt transformers, buses and even attempted to blow the sacred Dalada Maligawa. Scores of youth are in their graves because of JVP having fallen prey to their ideology of violence.
Fast forward to present – JVP has scaled its way from indoctrinating the youth in universities, impeding their education & bringing them to streets for political protests to now setting base in villages where they are preying on innocent Sinhala Buddhist families.
The modus operandi if JVP in these villages are
In this manner villages are being traumatized by JVP infiltrating & influencing Sinhala Buddhist families, Buddhist temples & schools – every area which Sinhala Buddhists have held sacred.
Why have other political parties failed to follow similar strategy are they not aware that the JVP are subtly eating into their political bases at village/grassroot levels?
Where are the police while these subtle indoctrinations are taking place, has no one identified the pattern in these incidents taking place in every village/district across the Sinhala Buddhist belt?
Where are the civil organizations that represent the Sinhala Buddhists? Why are they not taking up these issues at national level with the Government & demanding action?
Sinhala Buddhists should be concerned, as should the head theros & other Sinhala Buddhist influential players. The Sinhala Buddhist may be a majority by name only – they are being disrobed from the village up & from the town down. The aragalaya & the role of the JVP in it & its non-Buddhist religious support gave away much that we assumed to be true. The open insults, the fake videos, the attacks on Sinhala Buddhists is shameful but unabashedly continuing because no action is being taken by the Govt & its failure to uphold Article 2 of Sri Lanka’s Constitution as well as the historical duty it has.
While the external enemies in the form of foreign countries, foreign intel agencies, anti-Buddhist religious institutes & organizations may be funding these initiatives, tragically it is the namesake Sinhala Buddhist JVP who are trying to remove & erase the Sinhala Buddhist ethos of Sri Lanka.
Shenali D Waduge
‘නීති-ප්රමාද’ ගැන ශෝකයක් මවා පාමින් සහ ශ්රී ලංකාවේ අධිකරණය ගැන කුණුහරුප ප්රකාශ කරමින් රාජ්ය තාන්ත්රික නොහොබිනාකමේ පුද්ගලාරෝපණය වූ ඇමෙරිකානු තානාපතිනී ජූලි චුන්ග් ය.
එක්සත් ජනපද රාජ්ය දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව විසින් අරමුදල් සපයනු ලබන සහ වොෂින්ටනයේ හොරණෑව මෙන් ක්රියා කිරීමට නැඹුරු වන නීතිඥ සංගමයේ එම ශාඛාව විසින් සංවිධානය කරන ලද උත්සවයකදී, නීතීඥයින්ගේ රැස්වීමක් අමතමින් චුන්ග් ඇයව දර්ශනය කර ගත්තාය.
අධිකරණයේ සාමාජිකයන් ස්වාධීන නොවන බව හඟවමින්, යුක්තිය පසිඳලීමේ දී ශ්රී ලංකාවේ අධිකරණ පද්ධතිය ගැන චුන්ග් සමහර තුච්ඡ අදහස් පළ කළේය.
මෙම අවස්ථාවට ආරාධිතයෙකු වූ ශ්රී ලංකාවේ අගවිනිසුරුවරයා ලැජ්ජාවට පත් වූ අතර කරුණාවන්ත ලෙස බැලීමට බල කළේය.
සාමාන්ය ආත්ම ගරුත්වයක් ඇති රටක, චුංව විදේශ අමාත්යාංශයට කැඳවා, රටක හුදු තානාපතිවරයකු ලෙස සීමාව ඉක්මවා යාම සම්බන්ධයෙන් සාරාංශයෙන් අවවාද කරනු ඇත; අඛණ්ඩ ප්රබලත්වය ඇයව පුද්ගල-නොවන ග්රාටා ප්රකාශ කිරීමට හේතු වනු ඇත.
ජුන්ග්ගේ වෙන් කිරීම ශ්රී ලංකාවට ඇමරිකානු මැදිහත්වීමේ පසුබිමක සිදු වූවක් වීම හාස්යයට කරුණකි. ජාත්යන්තර මූල්ය අරමුදල විසින් ඉල්ලා සිටින අනිවාර්ය කොන්දේසි සමග රටේ ස්වෛරීත්වයේ 144 + ස්ථර ඉවත් වෙමින් පවතී. රටේ ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාව, ව්යවස්ථාදායකය සහ අධිකරණය තුළ බරපතළ අභ්යන්තර මාර්ග සකස් වෙමින් පවතී.
පාඨකයන්ගෙන් අසන ලද ප්රශ්නයක් නම්, චුන්ග් ඒ හුරතල් පිපිරවීම සිදු කරන විට ඇගේ මුදල් කටට දමාගෙන සිටියාද?” යන්නයි.
ශ්රී ලංකාවේ භූ-දේශපාලන ක්ෂේත්රයේ ප්රධාන ඇමරිකානු ක්රීඩකයෙකු වන්නේ දිල්ලියේ ශ්රී ලංකා මහ කොමසාරිස් මිලින්ද මොරගොඩ ය. මෙම ඉහළ පෙළේ ව්යාපාරිකයා, දේශපාලනඥයා සහ ජාවාරම්කරු යැයි කියන පුද්ගලයා නන්දසේන රජයේ ප්රධාන ආර්ථික උපදේශකයෙකු වූ අතර රටේ ආර්ථිකය විනාශ කිරීමට විශාල දායකත්වයක් ලබා දුන්නේය.
ජුන්ග්ගේ පිපිරීම විකිපීඩියාවේ මොරගොඩ ගැන කියන දේට සංකීර්ණත්වයක් එක් කරයි; විකිපීඩියාවේ මොරගොඩ පිළිබඳ අදාළ උපුටා ගැනීම් වඩාත් පැහැදිලි කිරීම සඳහා පහත දක්වා ඇත; විකිපීඩියාව මොරගොඩගේ චරිතයට මෙම අපකීර්තිය දිගටම ගෙන යන්නේ ඊට පටහැනිව විශ්වාස කළ හැකි සාක්ෂි නොමැති තතු තුලය.
2007 මොරගොඩගේ පක්ෂය 2005 මැතිවරණයෙන් සන්ධානයෙන් පැරදිලා විපක්ෂයේ හිටියා. එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂ පාලන සමයේ සිදු වූ දූෂණ හෙළි කිරීමට සන්ධාන රජය කටයුතු කළ අතර, පොදු ව්යාපාර පිළිබඳ පාර්ලිමේන්තු කාරක සභාව (කෝප්) වාර්තාවක් නිකුත් කරමින් මොරගොඩට පුළුල් දූෂණයක් සහ බලය අයුතු ලෙස භාවිත කළ බවට චෝදනා කළේය.
මොරගොඩ විසින් ආරම්භ කරන ලද මර්කන්ටයිල් මර්චන්ට් බැංකුවේ අනුබද්ධිත සමාගමක් වන මර්කන්ටයිල් ක්රෙඩිට් ලිමිටඩ්, මොරගොඩ ආර්ථික ප්රතිසංස්කරණ අමාත්යවරයාව සිටියදී රුපියල් බිලියන 4.7 ක (බොරු තොරතුරු ලබා දී ලබාගත්) ණය පැහැර හැර ඇති බව අනාවරණය විය. මෙම ණය සහ ඒවා ගෙවීම පැහැර හැරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් කෝප් කමිටුව පරීක්ෂණ තුනක් සිදු කළ නමුත් දේශපාලන බලපෑම් මත එම සෑම අවස්ථාවකදීම පරීක්ෂණ අවසන් අදියරට පැමිණීමට ඉඩ ලැබුණේ නැත.
2002 දී කොළඹ වරායේ අක්කර 8.5 ක ඉඩමක තිබූ රජයට අයත් ලංකා ඛනිජ තෙල් නීතිගත සංස්ථාවට අයත් Lanka Marine Service (Pvt) Limited ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ජෝන් කීල්ස් හෝල්ඩිංග්ස් සමාගමට විකුණා ඇත. ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණය තීන්දු කළේ එවකට PERC සභාපතිවරයා ලෙස ආචාර්ය පී.බී. ජයසුන්දර සහ JKH හි විධායක අධ්යක්ෂ සුසන්ත රත්නායක LMSL කොටස් විකිණීමේදී වංක චේතනාවෙන් කටයුතු කර ඇත. මෙම ගනුදෙනුවට අදාළව පොදු දේපළ අවභාවිත කිරීමේ චෝදනාව මත වෛද්ය ජයසුන්දර, හිටපු අමාත්යවරුන් වන මිලින්ද මොරගොඩ (PERC ඔහු යටතේ) සහ කරු ජයසූරිය (CPC ඔහු යටතේ සිටි) යන අයට එරෙහිව අපරාධ චෝදනා සම්බන්ධයෙන් ද අල්ලස් කොමිසම විමර්ශන ආරම්භ කළේය.
විමර්ශනය අවසන් වීමට පෙර මොරගොඩ සහ ජයසූරිය යන දෙදෙනාම ආණ්ඩුවට මාරු වූහ. ලංකා සමුද්ර සේවා ආයතනය පෞද්ගලීකරණය කිරීම පිළිබඳව වාර්තා කරමින් කෝප් කමිටුව ප්රකාශ කළේ මොරගොඩගේ ක්රියාවෙන් රජයට අවම වශයෙන් රුපියල් බිලියන 1.7ක පාඩුවක් සිදුවී ඇති බවයි.
මොරගොඩ මහතාගේ පාලන කාලය තුළ සිදු වූ ශ්රී ලංකා ඉන්ෂුවරන්ස් පෞද්ගලීකරණයේ බරපතළ අක්රමිකතා ද සිදුව ඇතැයි කෝප් වාර්තාවෙන් චෝදනා කර ඇත. කොන්ත්රාත්තුවේ 4 වන වාරයට අනුකූල නොවීම තුළින් පමණක් මොරගොඩ රජයට රුපියල් බිලියන 3 කට වැඩි පාඩුවක් ඇති කළ බව වාර්තාවේ සඳහන් වේ. මොරගොඩ ආණ්ඩුවට යන්න කලින් මේ පරීක්ෂණත් ඉවර වුණේ නැහැ.
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ජෝන් කීල්ස් හෝල්ඩිංග්ස් පීඑල්සී හි වත්මන් සභාපතිවරයා වන්නේ මොරගොඩගේ කරදරකාරයා වන ක්රිෂාන් බාලේන්ද්රන් වීම අහම්බයක් විය හැකිය. ඔහු 2002 දී JKH හා සම්බන්ධ විය.
2021 සැප්තැම්බර් මාසයේදී, මොරගොඩ දිල්ලියේ සිටියදී, කොළඹ වරායේ (CWICT) කොළඹ බටහිර ජාත්යන්තර බහාලුම් පර්යන්තය (CWICT) ඒකාබද්ධව සංවර්ධනය කිරීම සඳහා ශ්රී ලංකා වරාය අධිකාරිය (SLPA), Adani Group සහ John Keells Holdings අතර දැඩි මතභේදාත්මක ගිවිසුමක් අත්සන් කරන ලදී. POC).
ගොඩනැගීම-ක්රියාත්මක-මාරු (BOT) ගිවිසුමේ වටිනාකම USD මිලියන 700කට වඩා වැඩිය.
ඔහුගේ සැක සහිත වාර්තාව අනුව, මොරගොඩ විශ්වාස කළ යුතු පුද්ගලයෙකු නොවේ, අඩුම තරමින් ඔහු ගැන සොයා බලා පිරිසිදු සෞඛ්ය පනතක් ලබා දෙන තුරු.
මොරගොඩට සංවේදී භූ දේශපාලන පත්වීමක් තිබේ; මූල්ය විෂමාචාර පිළිබඳ ඔහුගේ චෝදනා වාර්තාවට අනුව, රෝද රථ අලෙවි කරන්නන් විසින් කරන ලද දීමනාවලට ඔහු ගොදුරු විය හැකි අතර භූදේශපාලනික බ්ලැක්මේල් වලට ගොදුරු විය හැකිය. මොරගොඩට තවදුරටත් රජයේ නිලතල දැරීමට ඉඩ දීම ශ්රී ලංකාවට හිතකර වන්නේ නැත.
ඩොලර් මිලියන 700ක වරාය ගනුදෙනුව ඇතුළුව මොරගොඩගේ සියලුම ක්රියාකාරකම් පිළිබඳ ප්රසිද්ධියේ සහ විනිවිද භාවයෙන් යුත් පරීක්ෂණයක් සඳහා ඇය සිය හඬ ලබා දෙන්නේ නම් එය නිසැකවම ජුංගේ විශ්වසනීයත්වයට උපකාරී වනු ඇත.
A google translation of the original
Sri Lanka may be returning to its normal peaceful balanced static and dynamic situation with the approval of the IMF fund. However, it’s a loss to understand as to why people lighted firecrackers and celebrated on the streets of Colombo. This is why the writer stated in one of his articles as literacy rate does not limit to people can read and write but understand what they read.
The gravity of the Sri Lankan economic and people ambitious situation should be understood by all people.
Quote Ref: What are moral rights in Sri Lanka?
The rights take two forms: (a) economic rights and (b) moral rights. Economic rights include the right to reproduce, sell, rent, distribute, communicate with the public, and translate etc. whereas the moral rights cover the right to claim the authorship and right to oppose distortion or mutilation of the work.
Could we agree that (a) is in full form? Not in full.
(b) is practised in full form. People, students are on the road fully disagreeing what the government gives them.
LTTE is a defunct terrorist group. Some crooks who are money mongers are trying to say that LTTE is alive. LTTE was wiped out in 2009 under the military Command of Gen Sarath Fonseka. GOSL and the citizens should not worry about the defunct LTTE.
Only those corrupt Tamils who have no principles in their mind are using the LTTE to collect money and become rich. Already those LTTE funds have been invested in Supermarkets, Shopping complexes, conference halls, and businesses elsewhere. They will be punished as the curse has been thrown at them.
Tamils build temples in overseas countries. They get grants and aids from their local state and governments. Tamils cannot boast that they built the temples with their own money.
GOSL should not worry about the LTTE. That does not mean that the service the Sri Lankan intelligence organisation should sleep but be active as usual.
At the current period, GOSL and the People should trust only those who are honest and trustworthy, which is Hon Doulas Devananda and the EPDP.
Quote; Title: Strengthening Reconciliation Processes in Sri Lanka
The reconciliation process in Sri Lanka is strengthened. Governmental and non-governmental organisations in Sri Lanka address key aspects of the reconciliation process jointly.
Yes, everything except the hurt minds of the Tamils have not been sobered. Now that the situation is returning to normal, GOSL should review their status and pass a resolution to Tender and Apology” for the burning of the Jaffna Library in 1981, and record in gazette. This will cool the minds and the thoughts of the Tamil people and the politicians.
The tender of the apology should be passed by the parliament of the GOSL.
The writer considers this act as a diplomatic and magnanimous act only.
The writer wishes to add that he has donated more than three dozens engineering books to the University of Moratuwa, to which he is indebted to the rest of his life.
A human library is an organization or event that promotes dialogue, understanding, and respect among people from various backgrounds by allowing people to “borrow” other people as “books” to learn about their experiences, perspectives, and identities.
The idea behind the Human Library is to create a safe space where people can engage in open and honest conversations with others, particularly those with whom they may not have previously interacted.
A Human Library event allows participants to select from a catalogue of available “books” real people who have volunteered to share their stories and experiences and then engage in one-on-one conversations with them.
The Human Library was founded in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2000 and has since spread to many countries worldwide. It is frequently used to combat prejudice, discrimination, and stereotyping by questioning people’s assumptions and encouraging empathy and understanding.
The Human Library offers several benefits, including:
Promoting empathy and understanding:
By giving people the opportunity to engage in one-on-one conversations with individuals who have different experiences, perspectives, and identities, the Human Library helps to break down barriers and promote empathy and understanding.
Challenging stereotypes and prejudices:
The Human Library challenges stereotypes and prejudices by allowing individuals to learn about other people’s experiences firsthand. This helps to break down preconceived notions and encourages people to question their assumptions.
Fostering dialogue and communication:
It promotes dialogue and communication by creating a safe space where individuals can engage in open and honest conversations about difficult topics.
Building community:
Further brings people from different backgrounds together and helps to build a sense of community by encouraging individuals to learn from one another and share their experiences.
Encouraging personal growth:
Participating in the Human Library can be a transformative experience, as it challenges individuals to step outside of their comfort zones, learn about new perspectives, and reflect on their own beliefs and values.
Sasanka De Silva
Pannipitiya.
Hospitals in Sri Lanka are being overwhelmed by a huge wave of Diabetes and Diabetes related cases. It seems that many people, usually over the age of forty, are consuming sugary foods and carbohydrates and getting not enough exercise, leading to insulin resistance.
They become ill. Go to any hospital, island wide and it is the same story, rooms and hallways jammed packed with people lying on beds.
They become ill, then government hospitals are expected to repair the damage. The taxpayer has to foot the bill – pay the costs of treatment.
Businessmen are profiting from this system by offering sweets, cakes, biscuits etc. They are profiting from the bad eating habits of Sri Lankans.
But this remedial treatment costs the government much money. The cost of running a hospital; providing medicine and providing doctors and staff care is hugely expensive. Now, the price of insulin is very high and it is sometimes not available to patients in need.
The question must be asked – how can this flood of diabetes cases be reduced to save the government money?
Not only is the treatment expensive, but also this disease is ruining healthy people’s lives. Added to that there is a loss in happiness – they are not working, earning money and going out enjoying themselves.
Diabetes progresses; it develops. In time, feet can turn black, eyes swell and blindness follows. Heart attacks are common and so is dementia. cardio-vascular disease, ‘stroke’ incidences increase. Because feet become swollen and distorted this prevents people from walking properly.
It is as if Sri Lankans are indifferent to this disease- up the point when they need treatment for their eyes – but then it is too late.
Eminent U.S. Medical doctors tell how sugar damages our mitochondria, but in a less sever way but with the same effect as, suppose, we eat cyanide. But people do not know this!
The government need to take this issue seriously even if the people do not. It is estimated that as many as thirty thousand people die of Diabetes and other Insulin Resistant causes each year. This is a huge number, just to support a sugar industry. The government must treat it as they did for smoking prevention.
Colourful images of seriously decayed people with diabetes are needed to be displayed on the labels of fizzy drinks bottles. They can be placed in cake stores, and so on. Public awareness of this issue needs to be raised.
People need to change their lifestyle. People get out of shape. Towns need to be more user friendly. Overloaded busses in the evenings are a problem. Struggling to catch the last bus at 5.00pm is stressful. People should be served by a sufficient bus service allowing them to be relaxed, fit and healthy.
It is a matter for the leaders of society to take the lead. To raise the climate of public opinion. Local governments should build jogging tracks. Some countries build sports halls for people to have fun and go trampoline-ing and obstacle course rope climbing. Other countries do this for their citizens, why not here?
Dementia is a general term used to describe symptoms affecting memory, thinking, and social abilities to the point where it interferes with a person’s daily life.
Dementia is not a specific disease but rather a term used to describe a set of symptoms caused by various underlying conditions or diseases.
It can affect a person’s ability to communicate, solve problems, and complete everyday tasks, and it often gets worse over time.
Some of the most common types of dementia include Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia, and Lewy body dementia.
Lewy body dementia (LBD) is a type of progressive dementia that affects a person’s ability to think, reason, and remember.
It is caused by the brain’s buildup of abnormal proteins called Lewy bodies.
These proteins interfere with the brain’s normal functioning and can lead to a range of symptoms, including:
Cognitive problems: LBD can cause problems with thinking, memory, and attention. It may also cause hallucinations and delusions.
Movement problems: LBD can cause tremors, stiffness, and problems with movement and balance. It may also cause falls and difficulty walking.
Sleep disturbances: People with LBD may experience vivid dreams, nightmares, and other sleep disturbances.
Fluctuating alertness: LBD can cause a person’s level of alertness to fluctuate throughout the day, with periods of confusion or drowsiness followed by periods of increased alertness.
Autonomic dysfunction: LBD can affect the autonomic nervous system, leading to problems with blood pressure, digestion, and bladder and bowel control.
LBD is often misdiagnosed as Alzheimer’s disease or Parkinson’s disease because it shares many of the same symptoms.
However, LBD has some distinct features, such as visual hallucinations and fluctuating alertness, that can help distinguish it from other types of dementia.
There is currently no cure for LBD, but treatment can help manage symptoms and improve quality of life.
Wandering is a common behaviour in people with dementia, and it can be challenging to prevent completely.
Here are some tips that can help reduce the risk of wandering and keep the person safe:
Keep the person engaged: Provide them with activities that they enjoy, such as puzzles, music, or art. This will help keep them occupied and reduce their urge to wander.
Create a safe environment: Install locks on doors and windows and use alarms or sensors that alert you when a door or window is opened. You can also consider installing a fence or a gate around the yard to prevent the person from wandering away.
Provide supervision: Make sure that someone is always watching the person, especially during times when they are most likely to wander, such as during the evening or when they are agitated.
Use identification: Make sure the person wears identification at all times with their name, address, and phone number, in case they wander off and become lost.
Consider GPS tracking: There are various GPS tracking devices available that can be worn by a person with dementia, and you can track their location using a smartphone or computer.
Seek professional help: If the person’s wandering behaviour becomes severe or challenging to manage, it may be necessary to seek the help of a healthcare professional, such as a doctor or a social worker, who can provide additional advice and support.
There are trained service animals that can provide assistance to people with dementia, including helping to prevent wandering and keeping them safe.
These animals are typically trained to perform tasks such as guiding the person back to their home if they become lost, or alerting caregivers if the person is in distress.
Some organizations train dogs specifically for people with dementia, and these dogs can be trained to perform tasks such as responding to verbal commands, retrieving items, and providing comfort and companionship.
However, it’s important to note that not all people with dementia may benefit from a service animal, and the decision to get a service animal should be made in consultation with a healthcare professional.
If someone is interested in getting a service animal for a loved one with dementia, they can contact organizations that specialize in training and providing service animals.
These organizations can provide more information about the process and requirements for getting a service animal.
Sasanka De Silva
Pannipitiya.
High Commissioner of Sri Lanka to India Milinda Moragoda met the Minister of Road Transport and Highways of India Shri Nitin Gadkari today (24) in New Delhi to discuss bilateral cooperation in the transport sector.
The meeting between the Indian Minister and the High Commissioner was held in a very cordial manner, and the discussion centred on a range of matters pertaining to collaboration and partnership between the two countries in the transport sector.
High Commissioner Moragoda requested the assistance of Minister Gadkari in sharing India’s experience in public-private partnerships in the highways sector with Sri Lanka. He proposed to set up a platform through which this experience could be shared with the relevant stakeholders in Sri Lanka. He also suggested that Indian investors could be encouraged to positively look at investment opportunities in Sri Lanka’s infrastructure sector. Minister Gadkari expressed his support to these proposals.
As India aims to become a developed economy by 2047, its government has focused on boosting infrastructure, including highways and the road network. India’s spending on infrastructure has gone up manifold times over the last decade to hit a record Rs 10 trillion for the next financial year.
Minister Gadkari and High Commissioner Moragoda also discussed cooperation in the electric mobility sector. They explored the possibility of India sharing its experience, expertise and best practices of the electrical vehicle industry with Sri Lanka. High Commissioner Moragoda also sought the assistance of Minister Gadkari in encouraging Indian private companies from the electric mobility sector to invest in Sri Lanka.
High Commissioner Moragoda briefed the Indian Transport Minister on the economic revival programme in Sri Lanka and observed that India is playing a pivotal role therein.
The High Commissioner also presented a copy of his policy roadmap the ” Integrated Country Strategy for Sri Lanka Diplomatic Missions in India 2021/2023″ to Minister Gadkari and Minister presented a copy of his latest book ‘Unmasking India’ is a compilation of thought articulated by him during the Coronavirus pandemic on the Armanirbhan Bharath through a series of webinars.
Hailing from the State of Maharashtra, Shri Nitin Gadkari is the longest serving Minister for Road Transport and Highways of India currently running his tenure for over eight years since 2014. He also served as the President of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) from 2009 to 2013. Previously, he has held the ministerial portfolios of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises; Shipping; Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation; and Rural Development & Panchayati Raj. He has authored several books as well.
(මෙම ලිපිය 2023 මාර්තු මස 23 වනදා lankaweb අන්තර්ජාලයේ පලවු ‘භාහිය සූත්රය තුල සිහියට හසුවන සිතේ (උදය-) වය අදියර phase’ හා සම්බන්ධයි
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මෙහිදි හමුවන ඉතාමත් සංකීර්ණ ක්රියාවලිය තේරුම් ගැනීමට ධර්මයේ මූලික කරුනු කිපයක් නැවත මතක්කර ගත යුතු වෙයි.
5. සිත/සිතුවිල්ල/අරමුණ යනු සංඥාවලින් සකස්වුන අරමුණ පවතින කාලසීමාව තුල පමනක් විද්යාමානවන වේදිකාවකි. Consciousness is a vertual platform simulated with perceptual experience. It manifests and desappears with the (perceptual) experience.
‘සිත’ තුල ඇතිවන ක්රියාවලියේ ප්රතිපල හසුවන්නේ/දැනෙන්නේ ‘සිහිය’ටයි. මේ සඳහා සතිය පිහිටුවා ගත යුතුය. උදාහරණයක් ලෙස යම් සිතිවිල්ලක්/අරමුණක්
6. සිතේ ක්රියාවලිය සිහියට හසුවන බව දැනගැනීමට ‘සිහිය පිහිටුවා ගත යුතුය’. සිහිය පිහිටුවා ගැනීම යනු ‘සතිය’යි. යෝනිසෝමනසිකාරය යනු ‘අවදිකරගත්’ (awakening) නැතහොත් පිහිටුවාගත් සිහියයි. ත්රිපිටකය තුල අන්තර්ගත වන ‘නුවණැසින් දුටුවාවු’ යනු ‘සිහියට හසුවීම’යි.
7. සිහිය අවදිවන්නේ බොජ්ජංග ධර්ම (seven factors of awakening) වැඩීමෙනි. එවිට සියළුම නීවරණ ඉවත්වී ඔබ තුල නිරතුරැවම පවත්නා (inherent) ‘බුද්ධ ස්වභාවය’ මතුවේ. මෙම බුද්ධ ස්වභාවය ඔබට ප්රසාදයේ සිදුවන විපරිනාම වේගය හා එම වේගයට අනුකූලව සකස්වන ප්රසාදයේ කලා/ධාරා (phases) සිහියට හසුකර ගැනීමට උපකාරී වෙයි.
ඉහත සඳහන් සද්ධර්මයේ මූලික කරුනු අවබෝධ කල ඔබ දැන් ස්රතවත් ආර්ය ස්රාවකයෙකි.
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