{"id":54278,"date":"2016-04-30T11:40:24","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T18:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=54278"},"modified":"2016-04-30T11:40:24","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T18:40:24","slug":"may-day-may-day-industry-is-in-a-peril","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/04\/30\/may-day-may-day-industry-is-in-a-peril\/","title":{"rendered":"May Day\u2026\u2026..May Day\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..Industry is in a peril\u00a0 \u2026\u2026."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Recent news item carried \u00a0in the national papers ,Chamber of Construction Industry has been lamenting about the future of the Industry .The Industry I am personally involved is also facing severe drawback due to lack of skilled and unskilled labour in Sri Lanka<\/p>\n<p>Do you know that the largest ship builder in Sri Lanka has imported to reasonably priced work force of about 300 welders and fitters from India.<\/p>\n<p>Construction of towers like Altair and Shangrila are supported by cheap Indian Labour in Sri Lanka<\/p>\n<p>These workers coming under some Scarc country-loophole, work in these projects \u00a0for few months living a simple un-extravagant life \u00a0( They consume a simple meal and work hard during the short period and I personally prefer to employ them to achieve targets )<\/p>\n<p>Up country youths coming to Colombo looking for greener pastures are also swarming Colombo and the quantities not enough and they do not like work in construction Industry but prefer to work in less tenuous Grocery Shops and Bakeries<\/p>\n<p>Other youngsters are looking for jobs in driving three wheelers ,peddling vice and drugs in the city are not contributing to the construction Industry<\/p>\n<p>One social worker claimed that Three wheeler drives have also become a problem to peaceful family life of many families due to their nefarious activities , Sad to say that these drivers have disturbed family life in many instances<\/p>\n<p>Government is unable to do anything to make them productive due to fear of losing about 1.5 million votes<\/p>\n<p>Unless we do something whole construction industry and ship building Industry which will be booming under the new policies of the government and the development of Magapolis in Western area will suffer in time to come<\/p>\n<p>We all know that ETCA with free movement of labour from India and if possible from Bangladesh can definitely benefit the country by taking the development forward .<\/p>\n<p>What we have to do is maintain a strict \u00a0program \u00a0in monitoring their stay in Sri Lanka and hold the industrialists responsible for their repatriation like in Middle East<\/p>\n<p>We have to seriously think about the problem and take urgent action to solve the labour problem<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise our Development-Ship will sink in rough seas ahead \u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera Recent news item carried \u00a0in the national papers ,Chamber of Construction Industry has been lamenting about the future of the Industry .The Industry I am personally involved is also facing severe drawback due to lack of skilled and unskilled labour in Sri Lanka Do you know that the largest ship builder in [&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-54278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54278","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=54278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}