{"id":51477,"date":"2016-01-26T16:10:44","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T23:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=51477"},"modified":"2016-01-26T16:10:44","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T23:10:44","slug":"harvard-training-for-sri-lankas-development-drive-officials-niranjan-deva-aditya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/01\/26\/harvard-training-for-sri-lankas-development-drive-officials-niranjan-deva-aditya\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard training for Sri Lanka\u2019s development drive officials &#8211; Niranjan De\\va Aditya"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>I read above statement made by an Ex Eurpean Parliament MP Niranjan Deva Aditya in the Island New paper on 7<sup>th<\/sup> January .and recent news about plans by he governmnet to undergo training in Harward to enhance development dribe in Sri Lanka<\/p>\n<p>It amazes me to observe that we Sri Lankan who have an inherent home grown management style and political culture to accept some American educated ,youngsters with half American accent and touch-of- arrogance and hire and fire practice to be kept at the helm of the hierarchy to guide the country into a accelerated development drive .<\/p>\n<p>I myself personally know , being as ex head of state corporation and a blue chip company that ,placing such characters to initiate\u00a0 on a high gear of development phase in the country will not help to achieve the target<\/p>\n<p>Need of the hour is to streamline the management of organizations like BOI.Inland Revenue,Central Environment Authority ( CEA) ,Marine Pollution Agncey ( MEEPA ) Coast Conservation ( CCD) ,CEB Water Board ,Government Surveyor ,Government Value to expedite arrovalof foreign and local investments<\/p>\n<p>We need to eradicate the the involvement of politicians during the implementation program so that appointed officers can execute the jobs entrusted<\/p>\n<p>What we need is honest politicians who have inherent love to the country to be armed with some local talented young\u00a0\u00a0 managers with a vision to serve the nation.<\/p>\n<p>They should be paid well and remunerated with a target orientated bonus for fulfilling their duties<\/p>\n<p>I reiterate the fact that Harward Training will hardly do any good to accelerate the development drive<\/p>\n<p>How can 5-10 people being trained in Harward be the liove wire of the development drive of the whole country ??<\/p>\n<p>I am confident that country does not need Harvard or Sorbone educated people to be imported to run the country<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera I read above statement made by an Ex Eurpean Parliament MP Niranjan Deva Aditya in the Island New paper on 7th January .and recent news about plans by he governmnet to undergo training in Harward to enhance development dribe in Sri Lanka It amazes me to observe that we Sri Lankan who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51477","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=51477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}