{"id":100942,"date":"2020-04-09T15:14:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T22:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=100942"},"modified":"2020-04-09T15:14:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T22:14:34","slug":"national-service-is-the-need-of-the-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/04\/09\/national-service-is-the-need-of-the-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"National Service is the need of the hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr sarath obeysekera\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>We have seen the yeoman services rendered by the armed forces in controlling corona spread with \u00a0political backing where \u00a0relevant measures are taken to prevent \u00a0people from moving around by establishing control points<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many youngsters who have been \u00a0employed and unemployed \u00a0are staying in boarding houses, frustrated cursing the patients as well as authorities<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though some are trying to paint a picture of an authoritarian regime is going to be in place, the government and the president should continue using forces to enforce the rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also note that the police force cannot handle the controlling part due to lack of manpower and trained commanders\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is high time that The President uses some remaining\npowers and start National Service in the country and mobilize the youngsters\nwho are doing nothing at the moment&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They can. not only help regular forces ad police to control\ncorona spread but also distribute food items and collect agricultural products\nfrom villages&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government also commandeer trucks and \u00a0buses which are idling \u00a0and use them\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If necessary, the Constitution may be suspended for a year to avoid delays in getting a parliament appointed and get the legislation approved<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let the world including the UN complain about it but they have enough in their plates to worry about<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just like I have proposed several times President can be called Benevolent Dictator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-lankaweb-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"x7xRIeHB0m\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/12\/22\/needed-a-benevolent-dictator\/\">Needed: A benevolent dictator<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Needed: A benevolent dictator&#8221; &#8212; LankaWeb.com\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/12\/22\/needed-a-benevolent-dictator\/embed\/#?secret=lyroypSeQ6#?secret=x7xRIeHB0m\" data-secret=\"x7xRIeHB0m\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Even after possible eradication of corona, we need a tough regime to put the country back on track<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Otherwise various leftist and NGO elements may start\ndemonstrating like those days&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let us do this&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera <br>\nCEO Walkers Colombo Shipyard <br>\nColombo <br>\nSri Lanka<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr sarath obeysekera\u00a0 We have seen the yeoman services rendered by the armed forces in controlling corona spread with \u00a0political backing where \u00a0relevant measures are taken to prevent \u00a0people from moving around by establishing control points Many youngsters who have been \u00a0employed and unemployed \u00a0are staying in boarding houses, frustrated cursing the patients as well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sarath-obeysekera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}