{"id":52365,"date":"2016-02-27T04:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-27T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=52365"},"modified":"2016-02-27T04:05:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-27T11:05:00","slug":"there-will-be-many-indians-in-sri-lanka-sans-cow-boys-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/02\/27\/there-will-be-many-indians-in-sri-lanka-sans-cow-boys-2\/","title":{"rendered":"THERE WILL BE MANY INDIANS IN SRI LANKA SANS COW BOYS ???"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Clarification \u2026\u2026\u2026..<\/p>\n<p>I opened the pandora\u2019s box by being critical of Sri Lankan workers against Indian workers<\/p>\n<p>Lorenzo ,Alloy and others using various pseudonyms were quite critical of my statement<\/p>\n<p>Someone even mentioned that Singapore has automation in Shipbuilding \u00a0!<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how you can build ships with robots ?<\/p>\n<p>I can tell you what is happening in dockyard now .All our workers are playing supervisory role ( though they are categorised as fitters \/welders) \u00a0and earn over 120,000 rs per month and do not perform to the extent required<\/p>\n<p>If we can why do Japanese bring Indians ?<\/p>\n<p>We are a lazy nation .If any of you has worked in the industry abroad ,Sri Lankan working in Middle East .Maldives ,Oman,Bahrain,Dubai ,of course they work harder<\/p>\n<p>Because of their fear of getting repatriated back<\/p>\n<p>If one complains that we are hard workers, I have my doubts.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0 do not intend to import Indians any more<\/p>\n<p>If I have to deliver a product and our workers do not perform I have no other option<\/p>\n<p>I apologize for my bluntness but this is the gospel truth<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera Clarification \u2026\u2026\u2026.. I opened the pandora\u2019s box by being critical of Sri Lankan workers against Indian workers Lorenzo ,Alloy and others using various pseudonyms were quite critical of my statement Someone even mentioned that Singapore has automation in Shipbuilding \u00a0! I wonder how you can build ships with robots ? I can [&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-52365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52365","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=52365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}