{"id":55884,"date":"2016-06-23T15:21:30","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T22:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=55884"},"modified":"2016-06-23T15:21:30","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T22:21:30","slug":"megapois-centre-for-development-strategies-industrial-development-board-and-much-needed-coordination-from-centreneed-of-the-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/06\/23\/megapois-centre-for-development-strategies-industrial-development-board-and-much-needed-coordination-from-centreneed-of-the-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"MEGAPOIS, CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES ,INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD  AND MUCH NEEDED COORDINATION FROM CENTRE\u2026\u2026Need of the hour ."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Almost 18 months since the new regime came to power ,and both UNLP\u2019ers .SLFP ,JVP and JOC all in similar frequency Vis a vis failures of development drive and the management of the proposed development\u00a0 gaols and plans .None of them are talking good about the progress and yet expect something to happen like a last minute goal in a decisive foot ball match.<\/p>\n<p>Having involved in public and private sector for many years in Sri Lanka and Abroad I would like to propose following .<\/p>\n<p>Honourable Prime minister to appoint committees and execution team targeted for\u00a0 development , and give excessive powers to give instructions to all State Agencies to cut the red tape and assist in the development drive<\/p>\n<p>Teams with a Dynamic head for following sectors to be appointed which are of priority for\u00a0 the development . ( It does not have to be a Harvard trained!)<\/p>\n<p>Fishery Sector<\/p>\n<p>Road \/Transport Sector<\/p>\n<p>Health Sector<\/p>\n<p>Port\/Airport Development<\/p>\n<p>Housing Sector<\/p>\n<p>Plantation Sector<\/p>\n<p>Town Development<\/p>\n<p>Environment sector \/Garbage disposal<\/p>\n<p>Etc etc<\/p>\n<p>Prime minister should hold a meeting every week with the participation of Finance\u00a0 Minister with few dynamic secretaries to review the progress and give orders for\u00a0 execution\u00a0 as planned<\/p>\n<p>All heads of state agencies should attend the meeting and undertake to provide their concurrence in order to allow commencement of the development project .<\/p>\n<p>Any unnecessary objections should be overruled at this meeting and make provisions to grant approval within a short period<\/p>\n<p>Current haphazard way of making decisions should be stopped and I am sure within next two years country will back to high development gear<\/p>\n<p>Final advice is to disband FCID because the name gives shivers to many state officers ( who are reluctant to execute any order)\u00a0 and may\u00a0 establish a new Unit with a more friendly name such as WARWY ( We ARe Wathing You )!!!!!!!!<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera Almost 18 months since the new regime came to power ,and both UNLP\u2019ers .SLFP ,JVP and JOC all in similar frequency Vis a vis failures of development drive and the management of the proposed development\u00a0 gaols and plans .None of them are talking good about the progress and yet expect something to [&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-55884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55884","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=55884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}