{"id":52339,"date":"2016-02-26T18:16:17","date_gmt":"2016-02-27T00:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=52339"},"modified":"2016-02-26T11:05:02","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T18:05:02","slug":"there-will-be-many-indians-in-sri-lanka-sans-cow-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/02\/26\/there-will-be-many-indians-in-sri-lanka-sans-cow-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"THERE WILL BE MANY INDIANS IN SRI LANKA SANS COW BOYS ???"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>ETCA is making news\u00a0 today and many professional organizations including GMOA is worried about the influx of Indian Labour to take over jobs of our\u00a0 cow boys <\/p>\n<p>Does anyone know that one of the biggest foreign exchange earner Colombo Dockyard is employing over 400 ship building workers to generate much needed foreign income ??<\/p>\n<p>When our Sri Lankan welder needs to helpers to carry his gear to the workplace these skinny Indians do it own their own<\/p>\n<p>When I was CEO of Dockyard ,we imported 200 high quality welders and built the iconic Shell Gas Sphere in Muthurajawela They were paid only 200 $ per month<\/p>\n<p>We could not find diligent Sri Lankan Welders to do the job !!<\/p>\n<p>When our own workers do not want to work hard and demanding high salaries ,these workers\u00a0 eat chappati and dhal and work for just 300 $ per month<\/p>\n<p>Altair Tower built by Indians is full of Indians and managed by Indians and they are doing well<\/p>\n<p>There are many Industries such as steel melting mills where Indians work in Sri Lanka<\/p>\n<p>GMOA is worried about Indian doctors coming to Sri Lanka fear of what ? If they work well and pass their higher qualification exams Indian can do lower medical jobs and our doctors can\u00a0 manage<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I was watching a program where they were discussing about ECTA and the GMOA representative could not even express their\u00a0 opinion properly in English!<\/p>\n<p>His arguments were absolutely baseless<\/p>\n<p>We need competition to develop<\/p>\n<p>Let Indians come to Sri Lanka and work hard so that our professionals learn how to work efficiently and diligently to show that we are better<\/p>\n<p>As an Industrialist with much exposure abroad ,I am quite adamant that we should open up and let Indians come so that our lazy nation learn how to work<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0 \u00a0ETCA is making news\u00a0 today and many professional organizations including GMOA is worried about the influx of Indian Labour to take over jobs of our\u00a0 cow boys Does anyone know that one of the biggest foreign exchange earner Colombo Dockyard is employing over 400 ship building workers to generate much needed foreign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52339","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=52339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}