{"id":135576,"date":"2023-07-11T17:02:50","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T00:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=135576"},"modified":"2023-07-11T17:02:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T00:02:50","slug":"fdi-is-the-key-to-come-out-of-the-mess-we-are-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/07\/11\/fdi-is-the-key-to-come-out-of-the-mess-we-are-in\/","title":{"rendered":"FDI is the key to come out of the mess we are in"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Sarath Obeysekera <\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

I remember the times of RP when garment factories were built in rural  areas <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The progress of each factory was monitored by the president himself with a few super secretaries. Ministers were given marching orders if things go wrong\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was an incident when an \u00a0Investor who was waiting to get a power supply to his factory complained about the delays during the progress meeting, President was looking for the CEB chairman who was absent<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He  was contacted over the phone by RP  and firmly told  him that the  president himself will be attending the opening ceremony  and requested him to provide power <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pronto – next day power was given to start the factory employing over 200 villages lasses <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In January 2023 I requested permission to establish a yacht repair facilitation yard in down south.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has taken four months and full permission has not been granted <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who do I complain to?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ease of doing business forum with , CECM etc are nonexistent\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a director in CEA . I lamented about the delays by \u00a0officers \u00a0in completing EIA and gave advice to submit reports every month providing reasons for any delay\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyone is welcome to write to me direct so that I personally intervene to help the projects ( with no hidden costs !) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One investor who wants to do a solar power project has to pay 100 m to carry out an EIA ! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our own consultants may be conniving <\/p>\n\n\n\n

God knows ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A prerequisite to attract FDI is to ease bureaucratic rules and take action to appoint a super team under the president to follow up and help investors\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr Sarath Obeysekera I remember the times of RP when garment factories were built in rural  areas  The progress of each factory was monitored by the president himself with a few super secretaries. Ministers were given marching orders if things go wrong\u00a0 There was an incident when an \u00a0Investor who was waiting to get a […]<\/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-135576","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\/135576","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=135576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}