{"id":129751,"date":"2022-11-05T15:22:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T22:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=129751"},"modified":"2022-11-05T15:22:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T22:22:58","slug":"frying-pan-to-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/11\/05\/frying-pan-to-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Frying pan to fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera <\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>I took over the post of the chairman of the Ports Authority with a genuine intention of initiating action to develop Galle port as a tourist destination by developing a marina<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A steel gas barge berthed over \u00a015 years occupying 100 m length of Closenburh Pier was cleared by courts during this period for scrapping. A feasibility study to develop Trinco Port as the nucleus for the Marine and Offshore industry was to be awarded after much effort to a local consultancy company. Managed \u00a0to issue an RFP to expand bunkering tankage in Colombo with a view to going ahead with a PPP-based development\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Initiated a PPP partnership for the Mahapola training center which is underutilized\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With all the above done during three months of short tenure, I had to leave because I could not implement Structural changes in the management\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lower and \u00a0high levels of irregular financial handling and resistance to any changes were evident\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I move out and took a \u00a0seat on the director board of GSMB ( Geological Survey and Mining Burea)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I found that this organization needs immediate restructuring to stop corruption&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sadly the political appointees of the previous ruling party have been involved in large-scale mishandling of issuance of licenses and corruption everywhere\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Much publicity given in the press does not deter some officers &nbsp;giving resignations&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Better to leave this organization as early as possible to save the name\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera I took over the post of the chairman of the Ports Authority with a genuine intention of initiating action to develop Galle port as a tourist destination by developing a marina A steel gas barge berthed over \u00a015 years occupying 100 m length of Closenburh Pier was cleared by courts during this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129751","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\/129751","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=129751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}