{"id":105334,"date":"2020-08-07T14:54:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T21:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=105334"},"modified":"2020-08-07T14:54:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T21:54:21","slug":"a-humble-request-to-our-excellencies-president-gotabhaya-and-prime-minister-mahinda-rajapaksa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/08\/07\/a-humble-request-to-our-excellencies-president-gotabhaya-and-prime-minister-mahinda-rajapaksa\/","title":{"rendered":"A humble request to our Excellencies President Gotabhaya and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>by Dr Garvin Karunaratne, once G.A. Matara<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>In view of the landslide victory that is in the offing,&nbsp; it\nis my humble request that you may please consider a poverty alleviation cum\nemployment creation programme. I enclose my report on the Divisional\nDevelopment Councils&nbsp; Programme implemented during Premier Sirimavo&nbsp;\nfor kind perusal. It is my fervent hope that&nbsp; a similar but more\ncomprehensive programme may please&nbsp; be considered as soon as possible<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Garvin Karunaratne<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>06\/08\/2020<\/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=\"izE2NPyitP\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/11\/11\/the-divisional-development-councils-programmeddcp-lessons-on-the-eve-of-the-2019-presidential-election-of-sri-lanka\/\">The Divisional Development Councils Programme(DDCP): Lessons on the eve of the 2019  Presidential Election of Sri Lanka<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;The Divisional Development Councils Programme(DDCP): Lessons on the eve of the 2019  Presidential Election of Sri Lanka&#8221; &#8212; LankaWeb.com\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/11\/11\/the-divisional-development-councils-programmeddcp-lessons-on-the-eve-of-the-2019-presidential-election-of-sri-lanka\/embed\/#?secret=DUwHPP72KP#?secret=izE2NPyitP\" data-secret=\"izE2NPyitP\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br> <strong>The Divisional Development Councils Programme(DDCP): Lessons on the eve of the 2019 Presidential Election of Sri Lanka <\/strong> <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><br> Posted on November 11th, 2019 in Lanka Web <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Garvin Karunaratne,\nPhD Michigan State University*<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The DDCP was the major\ndevelopment programme undertaken by the Government of Prime Minister Sirimavo\nBandaranayake during her 1970-1977 rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was also the first major\nislandwide development programme ever to be implemented in Sri Lanka. Earlier\nthere was the Rural Development Programme and the Small Industries Development\nProgramme which were smaller programmes aimed at rejuvenating the rural areas\nwith small industries and Powerlooms. However, the DDCP was far major in scope\nand the Government had high hopes of great success. The Government head hunted\nthe most eminent economist on the island, Professor HAdeS Gunasekera the\nprofessor of Economics at the University of Peradeniya. A new Ministry of Plan\nImplementation was formed under the Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranayake and\nProfesor Gunasekera was appointed as the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry.\nThe importance given to the programme was such that helicopter travel was\nauthorized for him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main aim of this DDCP was\nto bring about employment for the youth. The aims, in the words of the Budget\nSpeech of Dr N.M.Perera, the Minister of Finance;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main objective of this\nprogramme is to create employment opportunities in the rural areas and through\nsmall scale projects&nbsp; in agriculture, industry and the provision of\ninfrastructural facilities, making use of the resources available locally;\nincrease national production and involve the people in national development\nwork.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The method was to enlist the\nsupport of all officials and elected personnel in every Division.&nbsp; In\ndetail,\u201d An entirely new structure for planning is being established (within\nwhich) each local authority will be the focus for development planning and plan\nimplementation. Popular participation will be secured through the Divisional Development\nCouncil in which the elected organs of the village, the cooperative society,\nthe cultivation committee, the village council will have a planning and\ncoordinating role in the overall development of their area.\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The DDCP was a crash programme\nto create employment for the youth. The target was to create 100,000 jobs in\nthe first year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Government enlisted the\nservices of the Government Agents to implement this programme. Even before the\nMinistry of Plan Implementation recruited graduates as Development Assistants\nand&nbsp;&nbsp; Planning Officers the Government Agents selected the best\nofficers who were working in the District and the programme was immediately\ncommenced. I was serving as the Government Agent of the Matara District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was a major set back\nbecause of the Janata Vimukti Peramuna(JVP) Uprising on April 5th 1971. This\ntook on the form of an attack on all Police Stations and army units. It was an\nattempt to capture power in a single day like what Fidel Castro did in Cuba.\nThe JVP controlled the hinterland- the rural areas and had their kangaroo\ncourts etc. and it took a few months for total order to be restored. The JVP\nhad been instrumental in working for the SLFP \u2013 for Mrs Bandaranayake at the\n1970 election and the DDCP was a programme that was specially meant to provide\nemployment to the youth.&nbsp; No reasons were given for the sudden uprising\nbut it was found that the North Korean Embassy had spent a massive sum of money\nat this time and there was some evidence of some connection with the Uprising.&nbsp;\nThe Government closed down the North Korean Embassy.&nbsp; This was an\nunfortunate episode that delayed the implementation of the DDCP for months.\nSince that day officials travelled the least possible and further all\ninvestors- estate owners, rice millers etc.who had made rural areas their homes\nleft for security reasons to the cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The development councils were\nformed in every division. The Councils comprised all officials and elected\nofficials of cooperatives, cultivation committees and local government\ninstitutions. The Head of the Council was the Divisional Revenue Officer(DRO)\nof the area. He was given a new designation of Assistant Government Agent.\nMeetings were held and the Councils identified small scale industries and\nagricultural projects- farms which were funded and commenced all over the\nisland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Matara District, in addition\nto a number of agricultural farms and small craft type of industries, the\nCouncils suggested many industries and feasibility reports were prepared and\napproval sought.&nbsp; It was generally difficult to get approvals a few small\nindustries were approved and the Ministry made an allocation of funds to buy\nthe machinery, put up structures and also funds to pay a stipend to the youths\ntill the projects were established and incomes generated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I suggested that a Mechanized\nBoatyard should be approved to be constructed at Matara on land bordering the\nNilwala River. A Feasibility Report was drafted and submitted. The Ministry\ncalled me for a meeting where the Director of the Fisheries Department was also\npresent. The Ministry officials were not interested and there were objections\nby the Director of Fisheries. The meeting was ultimately put off for another\ndiscussion on another day.&nbsp; This was the first cooperative industry to make\nseaworthy 30 foot long boats and perhaps the Ministry was worried that it could\nbe a failure and be a blot on the Ministry. Anyhow after a major battle, we\nobtained approval and the boatyard was established. It was a great success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Councils were agitating for\nmore industrial units and we suggested that at Deniyaya we could establish a\nWater Colour Industry making watercolour paint boxes. This was import\nsubstitution in action because at that time Sri Lanka imported the bulk of our\nwatercolour requirements. The Ministry submitted our Feasibility Report to the\nIndustrial Development Board(IDB)&nbsp; and a meeting was held at the\nMinistry.&nbsp; The Ministry agreed with the IDB recommendation that this\nshould not be approved because the Deniyaya area did not have any of the\ningredients that went into making watercolours. I argued that if Japan could\nbuy cotton from as far as Egypt, take it all the way to Japan, make textiles\nand market the sales back in countries as far as Egypt, we too could do it. We\nwere at an advantage because our country itself needed the watercolour paint\nboxes. I&nbsp; lost the battle. The Ministry was amply satisfied with the small\ncraft type of projects and the farms that we had got working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, we wanted to do\nbetter. I suggested a Dairy Project in the Deniyaya- Mawarala area where we\nwill get Estate owners to plant grass on all their unused land. We could get\nprivate farmers too to have more cows. The only proviso I insisted was that we\nshould have a Creamery to make butter and cheese. because it was impossible to\nsell more milk.&nbsp; My feasibility report created problems.&nbsp; It was\nargued that small creameries were not commercially viable and the Ministry said\nthat we did not have grasslands to feed the cattle. It ended up with heated arguments\nat the Ministry. I did not know then that Switzerland doted on small\ncreameries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;It was quite evident that\nthe Ministry was not going to approve any new industry for our District. The\nonly sophisticated industry ever done in the rest of the island was a Paper\nMaking Industry at Kotmale.&nbsp; The Ministry told me to get going making\nbricks and tiles if I was interested. I pointed out that in tiles and bricks\nthe private sector had already established factories in the District and it\nwould not be prudent to try to create a problem of oversupply.&nbsp; The\nMinistry and I clashed not once but many a time. It happened because once I had\nserved as a Deputy Director of Small Industry and I knew more about industries\nthan anyone in the Ministry.&nbsp; The Ministry never appreciated my ideas.\nTheirs was always on the beaten track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The officers at the Katchcheri\nwere very innovative and we had many meetings. Finally, I summoned my Planning\nOfficer Vetus Fernando, a chemistry graduate of the University of Colombo, just\nout of the University who did not have a day\u2019s experience in chemistry after\ngraduating. I fed him all I knew about making watercolours. Once as Deputy\nDirector of Industries, I had approved an allocation of dyes to a watercolour\nindustrialist and I had seen him making watercolours. I knew the ingredients\nbut not the proportions and details of mixing it- temperatures etc. Vetus and I\ndecided to try to find the art of making crayons. The science teachers at the\nschool also helped us.&nbsp; We commenced work at the Residency in the evenings\nand came to a point where we needed science equipment and it was suggested that\nwe should use the equipment at a school lab. I approached Mr Ariyawamsa the\nPrincipal of Rahula College Matara and he readily agreed for us to use the\nscience lab after hours.&nbsp; The Science lab at Rahula was our domain from\naround six in the evening till midnight every working day. The workers were the\nscience teachers and Vetus, the only scientists and we, myself, and a few staff\nofficers were all cheerleaders.&nbsp; The Cheer Leaders had to keep the\nmomentum going when every night we tried different methods and we failed every\nday for close upon two months. Then Vetus got a brain wave. The crayons we made\nwere never of good texture and he said that&nbsp; I should approve his going to\nColombo to his university dons in chemistry and he was certain they will help.\nI readily agreed and authorized him travelling and subsistence payment. I was\nhappy that he had thought of this method and I dreamt of success. Vetus turned\nup on the fourth day and narrated in disgust that none of the professionals at\nthe University of Colombo was interested in helping him. He had begged of them\nbut was told to get lost.&nbsp; My staff officers and I were not going to take\nthings lying down to submission. We started experiments in earnest \u2013 from six till\nmidnight sipping black coffee with a sing-song once in a way to keep the\nmomentum going. In a month of experiments, we came across the method to make\ncrayons. Then I supervised fine-tuning the art again and again till we got to\nbe near the Crayola grade- then it was Reeves.&nbsp; We won the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next came- how to establish a\nsmall scale factory. I could not get approval from the Ministry.&nbsp; I was\ncertain that they will turn it down. I could have summoned Harischandra or an\nindustrialist and I knew many personally and could have told them to put up a\nfactory, but then it won\u2019t be us. Finally, I decided that it should be\ncooperative.&nbsp; The Cooperative Unions had funds but not the authority to\nestablish an industry.&nbsp; Then I thought of Sumanapala Dahanayake, the\nMember of Parliament for Deniyaya, who was the President of the Morawak Korale\nCoop Union because he was a maverick, a daredevil type if that was required. He\nwas in charge of the funds at the Coop Union. When I broached the subject to\nSumanapala he readily agreed to establish a Crayon factory. However, he had no\nauthority to use cooperative funds for that purpose. The Government Agent too\nhad no authority to direct cooperatives. However for purposes of coordination\nin the case of the agricultural development programme, the G.A.had been\ngazetted a Deputy Director of Cooperative Development. I usurped powers that I\ndid not really have based on this gazette notice and authorized Sumanapala to\nspend cooperative funds and establish the Crayon Factory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sumanapala needed only a nod.\nHe got cracking with purchasing the equipment and gas burners, recruiting\nyouths. This was done in two days. A few rooms at the Cooperative Union at\nMorawaka were cleared and the Katchcheri staff too moved in to commence making\ncrayons. It was a 24-hour operation, with youths working in shifts, working\nunder the watchful eyes of Vetus Fernando the Planning Officer. There were\nChandra Silva the DLO, Weimalaratne the AGA, Daya Paliakkara a Development\nAssistant. They were all involved in the experiments at Rahula College and were\nat hand went Vetus took a few hours rest. The youths had to get trained to do\nevery single crayon to perfection- a difficult task. It was a hand made\ncrayon-like most industries in China today. I broke rest on two days till\neverything got off the ground. We sipped black coffee and sweetmeats brought by\nGunam Tambipillai, an estate owner who was very supportive of all our efforts\nat development. Sumanapala was in his elements and in around two weeks,&nbsp;\nCoop Crayon packets were printed and crayon packets made to fill two large\nrooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then I took off with Sumanapala\nto meet the Minister of Industries, TB Sunbasinhe who was surprised to see the\nquality of the crayons. He readily agreed to come for the opening ceremony when\nwe would commence sales.&nbsp; That was a grand occasion.&nbsp; With that aura\nof authoritative approval, I felt safe for all I had done without any Ministry\napproval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coop Crayon was fully\nfunctional. The Youths managed it well. However, one major hitch was the\npurchase of dyes that had to be purchased in the open market at high prices. I\napproached the Ministry of Industries, the people that gave permits of foreign\nexchange to industrialists- the place where I had worked two years earlier.\nThey said that their foreign exchange was only for the private sector\nindustrialists and not for cooperatives. The mandarins were not going to bend\nrules. We were lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a few days, a brain wave\nstruck us and we went to meet the Controller of Imports, Harry Guneratne, Harry\nwas authorizing imports and confided that he was approving foreign exchange to\nimport crayons. We argued that if he only gave us an allocation of a twentieth\nof what he would approve for the import of crayons to import dyes, he could\ncancel all imports and save the rest of the allotted foreign exchange. This had\nnever been done earlier but Harry was an immediate convert. However, he said\nthat this was the first time that such an allocation was made and wanted us to\napproach his Minister and get his approval.&nbsp; Minister Illangaratne not\nonly approved it but also insisted that we should open a crayon factory at\nKolonnawa his electorate. This detail has been included to show how we can save\nforeign exchange through establishing import substitution type of industries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coop Crayon was developed fast\nby Sumanapala and he stepped it up to have island-wide sales.&nbsp; All the\nunits I had established in industries and agricultural farms were active and in\ngood health.&nbsp; Coop Crayon and the Matara Boatyard were at the top performers\nin entire Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In another year in April 1973,\nI left the Administrative Service to proceed to the UK for further studies.\nSumanapala handled the Coop Crayon well. The other industries and employment\nventures were well looked after by Vetus and the Katchcheri staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then in 1977 came the General\nElection where the Government of Sirimavo Bandaranayake lost and the United\nNational Party under JR Jayawardena won.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Before long President\nJayawardena caved into the IMF which insisted that if he needed Financial Aid,\nhe had to invariably follow the IMF\u2019s Structural Adjustment Programme. (SAP)\nThe main condition was that the Government could not handle any commercial\nundertakings. Everything that the earlier Governments had done in the name of\ncommercial undertakings, to create employment etc had to be totally abolished.\nThe DDCP industries and farms were totally abolished and hundreds of youths\nwere inevitably consigned to the scrap heap of unemployment and poverty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The political rivalry became\nthe order o the day. My Headquarters Assistant GA Ranjith Wimalaratne, a\nkingpin in industries and who handled the Powerlooms with great efficiency was\na persona non grata and was hunted down. To save his life he had to forego\neverything and run away to Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few years later, I met AT\nAriyaratne, a senior member of the Administrative Service and when I told him\nthat I had last served as the GA at Matara he spoke of a special assignment he\ngot in 1978 when he worked as a Deputy Commissioner of Cooperative Development.\nHe had been assigned to proceed to Morawaka to inspect Coop Crayon and somehow\nfind fault with Sumanapala Dahanayake the Member of Parliament who in his\ncapacity as the President of the Morawaka Coop union handled Coop Crayon.&nbsp;\nCoop Crayon was at that time in full swing with islandwide sales and was easily\nthe flagship industry of the DDCP. The Government wanted Coop Crayon\ndiscredited and to also find fault with Sumanapala for him to get punished.\nAriyaratne told me that he had spent days inspecting and auditing and could\nonly report that Coop Crayon was a very successful cooperative industry, with\nall books kept in perfect order. Sumanapala was saved from a sojourn in the\ngallows. Ariyaratne was not an officer who would stoop to create evidence to\nput a person into trouble at the bidding of someone in authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to get foreign loans,\nthe UNP caved in and destroyed all that we had created to bring about youth\nemployment. The Matara Boatyard where youths built seaworthy inboard\nmotorboats- some 40 every year and earned good incomes was scrapped and the\nvaluable machinery was neglected, sold and also left in the scrap heap. Coop\nCrayon was stopped. All other industries and agricultural farms were stopped\nand a few hundred youths lost their jobs. Getting loans was the priority, and\nthe UNP Government did not care whether youths who earned a living were\ndestined to the realm of poverty. The aim was to satisfy the IMF. The IMF\nbarked orders to be carried out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let us see what economist\nluminary Professor Jeffery Sachs had to say of the entry of the IMF and the\nWorld Bank to Africa:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The IMF and the World Bank\nvirtually ran the economies of the debt-ridden continent recommending regimes\nof budgetary belt-tightening known technically as the Structural Adjustment Programme.\nThese Programs had little scientific merit and produced even fewer results. By\nthe start of the twenty-first century, Africa was poorer than in the late 1960s\nwhen the IMF and the World Bank had first arrived on the scene., with the\ndisease, population growth and environmental degradation spiralling out of\ncontrol. IMF led austerity led to riots, coups and the collapse of public\nservices( From The End of Poverty)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As much as Africa became poorer\nwith the advent of the IMF, from 1978, Sri Lanka too faced destitution.&nbsp;\nThe UNP Government of President Jayawardena played poodle to the IMF and did\neverything that the IMF wanted it to do. As far as the DDCP was concerned all\nindustries and agricultural farms were abandoned and the thousands of youths\ninvolved were destined to unemployment and poverty. Imagine what the youths who\nwere making crayons felt in Morawaka, what the youths fromMorawaka who were\nselling crayons at both Alimankada and Pamankada felt and the youths that were\nmaking boats felt at the Matara Boatyard felt when they were ordered to close\ndown and get lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Presidential Elections is in\nthe hustings in a few days in Sri Lanka and it is necessary to bring about\nemployment for the youth and prosperity for the people. The DDCP was once the flagship\nthat Dr NM Perera and PrimeMinister Sirimavo doted on to bring us prosperity.\nThe United National Party of President Jayawardena sacrificed that at the\nbehest of the IMF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is time that we rethink our\nstrategies at development once again from scratch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is hoped that the\ncombination of leaders former Defense Secretary Gotabhaya and former Premier\nMahinda can effectively strategize a programme to end poverty and unemployment\nin Sri Lanka. I am certain that they will be successful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope to see a development\nprogramme that is better than the DDCP in the new future and the only path to\nthis development lies through a victory for Gotabhaya as President. There is no\nother option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was not long ago that they\nshowed us their full colours by defeating the LTTE that attacked us all over\nour country for thirty long years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is the only hope for our\nMotherland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These words come to you from a\nSri Lankan&nbsp; administrator who once in 1982 and 1983 was working as the\nCommonwealth FundAdvisoir to the Ministry of Labour and Manpower in Bangladesh,\nwho was able to obtain approval to establish a Youth Self Employment Programme,\nand within two years did create the Programme and trained Bangladeshi staff to\ncontinue it- a programme that has guided millions into self employment, which\nis today the premier employment creation programme that has withstood the sands\nof time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*Garvin Karunaratne, PhD\nMichigan State University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Author of How the IMF Sabotaged\nThird World Development (Kindle\/odages:2017)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How the IMF Ruined Sri Lanka\nand Alternative Programmes of Success(Kindle\/Godages:2006)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor George Axinn of\nMichigan State University hails this book: It is hoped that this timely book\nwill enable international organizations to arrest the trend of failures.\n\u2026&nbsp; I am delighted and proud&nbsp; to have been one of his teachers at\nMichigan State University.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11\/11\/2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dr Garvin Karunaratne, once G.A. Matara In view of the landslide victory that is in the offing,&nbsp; it is my humble request that you may please consider a poverty alleviation cum employment creation programme. I enclose my report on the Divisional Development Councils&nbsp; Programme implemented during Premier Sirimavo&nbsp; for kind perusal. 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