{"id":117517,"date":"2021-08-26T15:35:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T22:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=117517"},"modified":"2021-08-26T15:35:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T22:35:33","slug":"policy-eminence-of-mr-gotabaya-rajapaksa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/08\/26\/policy-eminence-of-mr-gotabaya-rajapaksa\/","title":{"rendered":"POLICY EMINENCE OF MR. GOTABAYA RAJAPAKSA"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Since\nthe election of Mr.Gotabhaya Rajapaksa as the president of Sri Lanka at the end\nof 2019, people expected from him he will launch Sri Lanka in an era of new\npolicy implementation. People expected the eminence of the political\nadministration compared to previous presidents. The excellent feature of his\nadministration is a halcyon approach to issues and a focus on result-oriented\nreforms and supervision. The best example is the approach on the COVID-19 issue\nthat needs the wide support of people without a political difference. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nowned styles of administration had been shown by political leaders of Sri Lanka\nsince King Vijaya, and King Senkadagala Rajasinghe was the best the example of\nthe calm approach of administration. He investigated many issues himself rather\nthan listening words of others in a way like opening soda bottles. The facet of\nthe Gotabaya administration is given priority for results examining that the\nresults breed from policy outcomes. The way of King Vijebahu was a secret investigation\nin the community walking in the night. The nature of Mr. Gotabhaya’s\nadministration shows he adapts to historical kings, and it shows the excellence\nof Rajapaksa policy above Mr. Sajith Premadasa and Mr. Ranil Wickramasinghe.\nMany people don’t quickly understand the way of handling issues, because the\napproach of Mr.Gotabhaya Rajapaksa concerns achieving broader outcomes rather\nthan hanging on narrow indulgence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When\nMr.Gotabaya was addressing before the new lockdown decision, he clearly\nexplained people the potential impact of the lockdown, and his explanation was\nclear to people. He expected unitedly working rather than too much talking. The\nworld has been adapted to working collectively than distancing on political\nreasons. The COVID-19 has been promoting social distancing that is against the\nway all religions promoting. Mr.Gotabhaya Rajapaksa directed unity in working\nto eliminate the virus than political-based collectivism.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nmost significant point that he mentioned in the address was the requirement of\nunity to control covid and his fundamental view is Sri Lanka wants political\nunity than the concept of the Queen’s opposition, which divulged that the\nopposition is the alternative government of Queen by Ivor Jennings. Religious\nleaders and elders of the country have been preaching this view since 1956, but\nit was unsuccessful because an underhand element worked against the unity. When\nMr. Rajapaksa was working against the LTTE, he had in mind that unity was an\nessential condition, but Mr.Ranil Wickramasinghe had ignored the unity might be\nunder the advice of foreign powers. If he agreed with the unity, he could have shared\nthe victory with the government. It was the major reason to backward UNP in\n2020. The policy eminence of Mr. Gotabhaya Rajapaksa is strong trusts the unity\nof people to eradicate problems in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\npolitical divisions are being the poison that entered political administration\nin Sri Lanka. Democracy began in the early 1930s and since then, people have\nmisunderstood the concept and many politicians have misused the concept. With\nthese democratic reforms, the concept of unity has gone away and people\nattempted to achieve various outcomes in divided ways. People expect Mr.Gotabhaya\nRajapaksa will change the misunderstanding in a way that is appropriate to Sri\nLanka. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\nis the policy eminence of Mr. Gotabhaya Rajapaksa?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • Organic Agriculture\nProduction<\/strong>\u2013Many health issues in Sri Lanka are\nassociated with inorganic agricultural production and people saw that\nagrochemical and chemical-based fertilizer invaded the agricultural production\nprocess. Before formulating the British policy in late 1800, Sri Lanka had an\norganic production system, and resulting from the plantation industry, the\ninorganic method of soil management began and people became an allurement of\nagrochemicals. A.Bour and Company, Colombo Commercial company, and others\nturned to inorganic fertilizer production, and the farmers were forced to use\ninorganic fertilizer and chemicals. In the long run, Sri Lanka has become an\nelement of an inorganic method of production and relegated to a variety of diseases.\nAnd the cost of these diseases absorbed a large sum of the budgetary fund and\nthe country pushed to an indebtedness. The wise policy of Mr.Gotabhaya\nRajapaksa is an attempt to change the method of agricultural production and the\nresults could be seen after several seasons. <\/li>
  • Renewable Energy<\/strong>\u2013Sri\nLanka gave priority to hydropower generation. Many countries use fossil fuel\nand modernization of power production and services encourages power production\nusing hydro, wind, and sunlight, and others and the policy of Mr.Gotabhaya\nRajapaksa has directed to generate renewable energy.<\/li>
  • Export Economy<\/strong>.\nThe export economy becomes a major factor determining the exchange value of the\nmonetary unit of Sri Lanka. Prof.Dudley Seers has analyzed the export economy\nof Sri Lanka late 1960s and Mr. Rajapaksa has focused on his policies to\nincrease earnings from exports and make restrictions on a variety of imports\nthat could be domestically produced. The trade policy of Mr. Gotabhaya\nRajapaksa could support achieving better terms of trade and a gradual\nimprovement of the exchange rate of the Sri Lanka rupee.<\/li>
  • Import Policy<\/strong>\u2013Since\nthe late 1950s, Sri Lanka began import substitution and established many public\nenterprises to manage import substitution. However, this policy has been\nchanged by Mr.J.R. Jayawardane for a market economic system without disciplines,\nand the liberalized import regulation allowed to come unnecessary imports and\nincurs foreign exchange shortage. Mr.Rajapaksa has started a policy to fix the\nproblem.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    The\noutcomes of policies cannot be seen overnight. It will take a minimum of ten\nyears and people in Sri Lanka are not calm and struggle to show results. The\nera of Mr.Gotabhaya needs to change society. Free and education from\nmother-tongue have made radical changes, but the current situation is people\nneed education from three media and people to need to be conversant in three\nlanguages. Although education was free, it was not offered equally and\ndisparities created a class that secretly promote feudal society promoting the\nuse of the English language. This could be changed by offering three languages\nto all in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Mr.\nMartin Wickramasinghe had been enthusiastically talking about the brahmin caste\nthat influences society. The brahmin class was conversing in the English\nlanguage. Changes in the economy, especially land reforms and distribution of\neducation in rural areas, contributed to change. However, now there is called a\nposh society, people in the posh society are not well educated and capable in\nEnglish communication. They are in an artificial society and they are less\nrespected for values. Mr.Gotabhaya Rajapaksa needs to focus on changing the\nconcept of posh society to achieve equity and justice. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Since the election of Mr.Gotabhaya Rajapaksa as the president of Sri Lanka at the end of 2019, people expected from him he will launch Sri Lanka in an era of new policy implementation. People expected the eminence of the political administration compared to previous presidents. The excellent feature of his administration is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edward-theophilus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117517","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=117517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}