{"id":56424,"date":"2016-07-09T16:53:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T23:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=56424"},"modified":"2016-07-09T16:53:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-09T23:53:05","slug":"galle-a-world-heritage-site-unesco-and-indians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/07\/09\/galle-a-world-heritage-site-unesco-and-indians\/","title":{"rendered":"GALLE \u2013A WORLD HERITAGE SITE , UNESCO AND INDIANS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Everyone is much hyped about making Galle \u2013a tourist destination. There were plans to build an offshore breakwater connecting Rummassala Hill and the Old Dutch Fort. Unesco seems dead against building the breakwater but Government is insisting that by building the break water which will protect the Galle \u00a0bay area will be quite large marina It may be 10 times existing harbour .Everyone is dreaming about building a Manaco\u201d in the south.<\/p>\n<p>Master plan for Gallle harbour is quite specific with details of additional pier area and Yacht parking areas .Existing harbour will become the service centre for the Mega Marina .Sri Lanka Port Authority \u00a0has signed an agreement with a Saudi Investor to start a yacht repair and building yard inside the harbour .<\/p>\n<p>Now a Indian company moves in to take over the whole harbour to build a mega \u00a0marina\u00a0\u00a0 Indian company is also vying to take over Eastern Terminal in Colombo and pushing Sri Lanka to allocate large parcel of land in Trinco\u00a0 and Hambantota as well .<\/p>\n<p>Though Indians are also pushing the government to allow them to start a ship yard in Hambantota, SLPA is already entertaining Chinese shipping company Cosco and China Harbour Corporation to build a Shipyard to repair very large vessels .<\/p>\n<p>It looks like Indians are eying <strong>for<\/strong> Colombo. Galle,Hambnatota \u00a0and Trinco\u00a0 but Chinese are also \u00a0pressurising government to allow them to occupy both Colombo and Hambantota<\/p>\n<p>Government is trying to make both countries happy and visit to both countries by leaders have given them hopes .<\/p>\n<p>Two Giants will be fighting to achieve their Goals and tiny Sri Lanka will suffer ?<\/p>\n<p>There are few proverbs in English<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/Global-Pedestrian\/africa-when-two-elephants-fight-it-is-the-grass-that-suffers\"><strong>When two elephants fight<\/strong><strong>, it is the grass that\u00a0suffers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or<\/p>\n<p><strong>If the big two ox fight then the rubble gets the brun<\/strong>t<\/p>\n<p>Or<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maldivian idiom that explains how juniors get affected when elders quarrel or perhaps, when two ministers fight public gets the brunt etc<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Let us be the audience and watch then fighting<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera Everyone is much hyped about making Galle \u2013a tourist destination. There were plans to build an offshore breakwater connecting Rummassala Hill and the Old Dutch Fort. Unesco seems dead against building the breakwater but Government is insisting that by building the break water which will protect the Galle \u00a0bay area will be [&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-56424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56424","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=56424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}