{"id":57420,"date":"2016-08-08T16:12:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T23:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=57420"},"modified":"2016-08-08T16:12:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T23:12:29","slug":"one-response-to-sri-lanka-to-introduce-public-enterprise-act-next-month-malik-author-lbo-news-item","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/08\/08\/one-response-to-sri-lanka-to-introduce-public-enterprise-act-next-month-malik-author-lbo-news-item\/","title":{"rendered":"One Response to \u201cSri Lanka to introduce Public Enterprise Act next month: Malik , Author LBO\u2026..News Item\u2026\u2026\u2026..\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

plumblossom<\/strong>Says:
\n<\/strong>August 6th, 2016 at 4:15 am<\/a><\/p>\n

Mr. Sarath Obeysekara Sir,<\/p>\n

Prior to initiating any project you must carry out a feasibility study. For this you will have to hire a consultancy. Once you have carried out your feasibility study, you will have to approach the CEA and provide them with your feasibility study report and proposed plans etc. and the CEA will ask you to carry out an initial environmental examination or an environmental impact assessment. For this, you will have to hire a specialist consultancy. Once you have carried out your IEE or EIA to the satisfaction of the CEA, then only will you get the permission from the CEA to go ahead with the proposed project. This process is so that your project complies with the environmental laws of the country, especially the ecological aspects etc.<\/p>\n

Additionally you will have to comply with resettlement and compensation issues if your project inconveniences or displaces any persons etc. To comply with the country\u2019s resettlement and compensation legislation. you will have to hire sociologist and will have to come up with a resettlement plan depending on your individual situation. Any in event, you will have to comply with the national resettlement and compensation legislation.<\/p>\n

Once you obtain the necessary permission from the CEA, and prior to the pre-construction stage, you and your contractor will have to obtain a whole host of permissions from a wide variety of agencies, departments, ministries etc. for example, if you are digging up a roadside, obtaining water for construction purposes, obtaining electricity for construction purposes, if your construction activities displaces existing utilities, if your construction activities affect traffic flow, inconveniences the community, comply with all health and safety issues of workers etc. A whole host of agencies, PSs, municipal councils, departments will have to be approached to obtain the necessary permissions.<\/p>\n

You will have to go through this process since this is to comply with the country\u2019s legislation that is there to safeguard the country\u2019s natural environment and minimise any socio economic issues that may arise. Other countries may have much worse draconian legislation than even Sri Lanka. Therefore you should not complain but go through the necessary process since these laws are there to safeguard Sri Lanka\u2019s natural environment and any socio economic issues that may arise.<\/u><\/p>\n

Reply<\/p>\n

Mt Plumblosom<\/p>\n

Your response to my opinion seems misconstrued .I am quite aware the procedures to be followed.<\/p>\n

I have initiated few development projects in Galle and Colombo and Trinco. Galle project took three years to clear the hurdles and by that time Investor bolted away<\/p>\n

My problem is not the procedures to safeguard our environment and solve problems of social impact .<\/p>\n

Problem is how long it takes and how much money an investor has to spend underhand<\/p>\n

My proposal is to streamline the implementation of those draconian laws and expedite the approval process The writer seems to be well conversant with the procedure, but he may have not gone through the mill to feel the frustration!<\/p>\n

Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sarath Obeysekera plumblossomSays: August 6th, 2016 at 4:15 am Mr. Sarath Obeysekara Sir, Prior to initiating any project you must carry out a feasibility study. For this you will have to hire a consultancy. Once you have carried out your feasibility study, you will have to approach the CEA and provide them with your feasibility […]<\/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-57420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57420","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=57420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}