{"id":120313,"date":"2021-11-14T18:24:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T01:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=120313"},"modified":"2021-11-14T18:24:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T01:24:14","slug":"public-services-is-a-burden-on-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/11\/14\/public-services-is-a-burden-on-the-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"PUBLIC SERVICES IS A BURDEN ON THE ECONOMY."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">By\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Noor Nizam &#8211; Peace and Political Activist, Political Communications Researcher, SLFP\/SLPP Stalwart and Member &#8220;Viyathmaga&#8221;, 14th., November, 2021.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p><strong>Look at the way of their life style\nand the houses they have built while they are in Public Service.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Honourable Minister of Finance was very\ncorrect in saying that the Public Service is a burden on the government and\ndemands for more salary increase cannot be allocated. Look at the salary\nstructure of the public service, especially that of the Sri Lanka\nAdministrative, Sri Lanka Foreign Service and Sri Lanka Education Services and\nthe &#8220;PERKS&#8221; they have been getting\/enjoying, ONLY just working for 4\nhours of the 8 hours duty responsibility and that too palming the\nresponsibility to juniors who cannot accomplish anything without authority. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are either at &#8220;so-called meetings at\nvarious ministries&#8221; or attending functions or weddings, or on wild\njaunting tours of the resort areas under the pretext of official duties taking\ntheir family members too in those tours. Some are more often visiting abroad\nsaying they are attending conferences and raking in thousands of dollars as\nsubsistence allowances while they are abroad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The worst is how they earn big &#8220;kick backs&#8221;\nfrom tenders and other deals conniving with unscrupulous businessmen hand in\nglove with corrupt politicians and international business companies and how\nthey have amazed enormous amounts of money. Look at the way of their life style\nand the houses they have built while they are in Public Service. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact all there wealth has to be seized by the\ngovernment if they cannot account for it, when they retire, notwithstanding the fact that there are also\nhonest and dedicated public servants who are not corrupt and dishonest who do not fall into this\ncategory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nHonourable minister of Finance was very correct in saying that the Public\nService is s burden on the government and demands for more salary increase\ncannot be allocated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Noor Nizam &#8211; Peace and Political Activist, Political Communications Researcher, SLFP\/SLPP Stalwart and Member &#8220;Viyathmaga&#8221;, 14th., November, 2021. Look at the way of their life style and the houses they have built while they are in Public Service. The Honourable Minister of Finance was very correct in saying that the Public Service is a burden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noor-nizam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120313","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=120313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}