{"id":57731,"date":"2016-08-17T06:11:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T13:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=57731"},"modified":"2016-08-17T06:11:59","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T13:11:59","slug":"need-of-the-hour-it-is-not-etca-or-mega-chinese-projects-but-sense-in-ministers-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/08\/17\/need-of-the-hour-it-is-not-etca-or-mega-chinese-projects-but-sense-in-ministers-minds\/","title":{"rendered":"Need of the hour .,,,,,,,, It is not ETCA or Mega Chinese Projects but sense in ministers \u2018minds."},"content":{"rendered":"

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

We had Indian Peace Agreement signed and Sri lanka was forced t hand over Trinco\u00a0 Tank farms .These are strategic locations in the country and Indians have kept the area under their control and no local company allowed to develop, Ceylon Petroleum is also helpless .Sri Lanka Ports Authority who is supposed to have power to develop has no say .IOC almost oen Trico Oil activities ,<\/p>\n

Similarly we may hand over thousands of hectares to Chinese in Hambantota for development ,our investors may not even l have right to even enter .<\/p>\n

Then Port city being built by Chinese will take decisions ,who will do construction., I have highlighted the need to give a sizeable portion work to local companies .Ministers do not bother about it .Minister of Labour and vocational Training.Minister , National Planning. Ministry of Foreign Employment should review\u00a0 how to keep the labour forces in the country .
\nWhat we do is watching and making noise and no one wants to give some useful ideas to the ministers who have no clue about development strategies .ETCA strategic planners should somehow enforce\u00a0 rule where local companies should be given chance to reap the benefits .<\/p>\n

If and when Colombo East terminal and Galle Harbour go to Indians we will have to sleep like Prince Gamini ?<\/p>\n

Recently we were charged very high demurrages for some steel consignment at the Chinese run East Terminal in Colombo for delays incurred due to a fault of computer system of Sri Lanka Customs ,We protested and the Minister of Finance called the authorities from SLPA also to intervene ,Chinese did not even listen to us.<\/p>\n

President who is the leader of a party started with Bandaranaykes\u2019 who gave priority to Sri Lankan identity should step in and inquire how ministers take care of rights the locals .<\/p>\n

This is just the start .Indian and Chinse Ambassadors may keep calling the ministers and influence in favour of their countrymen ?<\/p>\n

I do not think how GMOA can help by blackmailing the country .There should be a concerted effort by all bureaucrats to convince the ministers that Local Industries need a fair portion in the development activities<\/p>\n

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

Sarath Obeysekera We had Indian Peace Agreement signed and Sri lanka was forced t hand over Trinco\u00a0 Tank farms .These are strategic locations in the country and Indians have kept the area under their control and no local company allowed to develop, Ceylon Petroleum is also helpless .Sri Lanka Ports Authority who is supposed to […]<\/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-57731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57731","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=57731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}