{"id":59013,"date":"2016-09-22T13:31:41","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T20:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=59013"},"modified":"2016-09-22T13:31:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T20:31:41","slug":"swiss-chocolate-swiss-knife-swiss-cantons-swiss-watches-swiss-stakesswisss-tennis-playes-and-now-we-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/09\/22\/swiss-chocolate-swiss-knife-swiss-cantons-swiss-watches-swiss-stakesswisss-tennis-playes-and-now-we-have\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSWISS CHOCOLATE\u201d, \u201c SWISS KNIFE \u201c,SWISS CANTONS\u201d, \u00a0\u201c SWISS WATCHES\u201d \u201cSWISS STAKES\u201dSWISSS TENNIS PLAYES AND NOW WE HAVE\u00a0 \u201c SWISS CHALLENGE \u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

When we travel aboard or buy\u00a0 chocolate to bring to friends we go for Swiss Chocolates which is supposed to be the best though Switzerland\u00a0 does not grow coco plant ,and we buy Swiss Knives which has many tools attached and popular among \u00a0nature travellers ,Swiss stakes loved by Goumet food \u2013lovers Swiss Watches like Omega ,Favre-Lueba\u201d, Swiss Cantons System of governance following somewhat federal system ( which some chaps in our country hate ).<\/p>\n

Swiss being a\u00a0 neutral country with people who are quite calm always go for something quite unique<\/p>\n

We have good governance alias Yahapalanaya which sounds musical to so called democratic countries who watch our country. UN keeps praising us and human right groups love this musical word .That is because, yahapalanaya gives you a comfortable feeling sans white vans, extrajudicial killings etc . ( we may have doctors not playing Swiss Rules\u201d ,and Customs officers using Swiss Knives-type strategy to stab the heart of the economy )<\/p>\n

For investors who wants to earn money by deriving many ways to get a state owned property or enterprise to re-invest are now having an additional musical word\u201d under Yahapalanaya\u00a0 .\u201dSwiss Challenge <\/strong><\/p>\n

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A\u00a0Swiss challenge<\/strong>\u00a0is a form of public\u00a0procurement<\/a>\u00a0in some jurisdictions which requires a public authority (usually an agency of government) which has received an unsolicited\u00a0bid<\/a>\u00a0for a public project (such as a port, road or railway) or services to be provided to government, to publish the bid and invite third parties to match or exceed it.<\/p>\n

Some Swiss challenges also allow the entity which submitted the unsolicited bid itself then to match or better the best bid which comes out of the Swiss challenge process. Indian\u00a0journalist<\/a>\u00a0Vinayak Chatterjee describes it as “one of the lesser known and even lesser-used methods of public procurement for core and social infrastructure projects”.<\/p>\n

I myself who believe in good governance and fair play fell in love with this word Swiss Challenge being used in some project procurement processes \u00a0,when I met the officials \u00a0of SLLRDC ,which I ran under Premadasa ,\u00a0 was quite intrigued by listening to young professionals guided by the Yahapalana rules and an aggressive minister . They have been told to use Swiss Challenge to speed up investments.<\/strong><\/p>\n

All Government institutions should be educated to apply Swiss Challenge to shortcut long procedures, and invite JVO.LOC\u00a0 and all political forces who tend to criticize every move by the state to develop the country using Private Public Partnership ( PPP) .<\/p>\n

We have to \u00a0educate all treasury officials who represent the state in Boards of many corporations<\/p>\n

The word unsolicited proposal is not very musical ,but Swiss Challenge may be only way out to get private entrepreneurs to develop the country tying to avoid tedious process of tenders ,evaluations etc .<\/p>\n

Only qualification we should have is, you have to know someone somewhere to initiate the challenge\u201d<\/p>\n

Any country ,sport ,business, human resources can\u00a0 be developed fast if the role players are challenged\u00a0 is challenged. .
\nLet us take the challenge and ask the Government to publish the data for private companies to go ahead and submit investment\u00a0 proposals\u00a0 using Swiss Challenge<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0 When we travel aboard or buy\u00a0 chocolate to bring to friends we go for Swiss Chocolates which is supposed to be the best though Switzerland\u00a0 does not grow coco plant ,and we buy Swiss Knives which has many tools attached and popular among \u00a0nature travellers ,Swiss stakes loved by Goumet food \u2013lovers […]<\/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-59013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59013","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=59013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}