{"id":102700,"date":"2020-05-22T15:24:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T22:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=102700"},"modified":"2020-05-22T15:24:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T22:24:34","slug":"elevated-highway-govt-accepts-unsolicited-proposal-from-chinese-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/05\/22\/elevated-highway-govt-accepts-unsolicited-proposal-from-chinese-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Elevated highway: Govt. accepts unsolicited proposal from Chinese company"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Elevated highway: Govt. accepts unsolicited proposal from Chinese company<\/em> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>By Namini Wijedasa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Government has accepted an unsolicited proposal from China Harbour Engineering Company (Ltd) for the elevated expressway from Athurugiriya to New Kelani Bridge via Rajagiriya \u2014 a project for which bid documents had already been finalised to call an open tender.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The CHEC bid was directed via the Board of Investment (BOI) and discussions are underway, the Highways Ministry Secretary has told media. However, a three-volume Request for Proposals comprising at least 300 pages each was earlier drawn up with the aim of attracting prospective bidders on a level playing field.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hook or crook government should move on and implement projects to generate employment and material sales WTC for the benefit of the country<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is high time we forget the\nbureaucracy and try to find funds to continue to build &nbsp;the infrastructure\nin the country<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Sarath Obeysekera <br> CEO Walkers Colombo Shipyard <br> Colombo <br> Sri Lanka<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0 Elevated highway: Govt. accepts unsolicited proposal from Chinese company By Namini Wijedasa The Government has accepted an unsolicited proposal from China Harbour Engineering Company (Ltd) for the elevated expressway from Athurugiriya to New Kelani Bridge via Rajagiriya \u2014 a project for which bid documents had already been finalised to call an open [&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-102700","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\/102700","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=102700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}