{"id":59260,"date":"2016-09-30T15:25:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T22:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=59260"},"modified":"2016-09-30T15:25:19","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T22:25:19","slug":"galle-trincomalee-hambanatota-colombo-and-jaffna-nerve-centres-for-a-rapid-development-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/09\/30\/galle-trincomalee-hambanatota-colombo-and-jaffna-nerve-centres-for-a-rapid-development-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"GALLE, TRINCOMALEE .HAMBANATOTA, COLOMBO AND JAFFNA\u00a0NERVE CENTRES FOR A RAPID DEVELOPMENT DRIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

I am not a strategist like the people heading blue ship companies like Keels ,Aitken Spence ,Dimo .Laugh Gas,Softlogic ,Citrus ,etc etc .I am an engineer with much exposure all over the world and in Sri Lanka .I could have executed some scrupulous plans to acquire competitors and develop or destroy but\u00a0 I always thought that where the hell I will\u00a0 take the fortunes I would earn when I die .<\/p>\n

I selected a path to establish my name to remember that I contributed to some development of this country ,full of short sighted politicians and business magnets<\/p>\n

Prime Minister and few ministers seems to have some idea to spearhead the development ,but the whole government is swaying like a rudderless boat\u00a0 in the sea with one good\u00a0 captain but a useless and inefficient crew.<\/p>\n

Many article were written how to Develop Galle by making the harbour as the development centre ,concentrate on\u00a0 converting the harbour into a Marina and establish associated Industries. We proposed to invest 25\u00a0 million\u00a0 US Dollars but the top level ministers have no clue about developing .I found an investor not\u00a0 only for Yacht Repair Facility but to put up a high-rise nest to the harbour to augment Marine Development ,Tourist Board and dilly dallying ,and does\u00a0 not encourage any development .<\/p>\n

Now some higher ups are planning to hand over the whole harbour to Indian party .<\/p>\n

Hambanthota was also to be developed as a\u00a0 bunkering centre initially and develop a shipyard with Chinese funding ,for which I gave concept ,but nothing is moving ,Now they want to hand over whole Hambantota to Chinese. Refinery, Tank farm, LPG farms were planned and only talks and promises.Of course Mattala is now ready to be taken\u00a0 over by some unknown companies ,may be the Russians will come and develop a football city .like they acquired clubs in\u00a0 England ??<\/p>\n

Trinco which is one of the best natural harbours\u00a0 is to be developed to do ship building ,power generation for the last two decades ,nothing is moving except the small shipyard we have established.IOC AND CPC are talking big and nothing is moving ,<\/p>\n

Then Colombo Port City development was stalled for some stupid reason ,and now seems going\u00a0 ahead ,bur when I walk along Galle Face I see some red faced Chinese doing Bar bending and dredging Beira our fall\u00a0 and I hardly\u00a0 see a local working .If this project is accelerated ,Port City can provide employment to over 2-300 thousand people .<\/p>\n

But they want to hand over Eastern Terminal to outside parties ,to show that we Sri Lankans cannot manage and develop ?<\/p>\n

Colombo Dockyard run by Japs are nor using local labour even for menial jobs like cleaning tanks of ships with some Indian Labour quietly hidden inside the harbour, before even signing of ETCA.GMOA should make a surprise visit to Harbour !<\/p>\n

Jaffna with a very high man power bank , neglected with CV playing hell, not allowing any other investor to come on Theasawalama Concept ? Otherwise Karainagar and Killinochchi can be centre for massive development drive with ex combatants available in\u00a0 plenty to work, no tourism, no marine industry bur only motor cycle riding young people living on Dollars an Kroners sent by their diaspora relatives and consuming liquor ?<\/p>\n

If I am wrong in expressing my candid opinion\u00a0 I invite the Chambers of Commerce to call for a session to deliberate the ideas of development based on these nerve centres and advise the government to change the course of sailing route out if this storm .<\/p>\n

OPA and GMOA with Comrade Starlin fighting for their own survival and JOC pouring fuel to the fire ?<\/p>\n

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

Dr SARATH Obeysekera\u00a0 I am not a strategist like the people heading blue ship companies like Keels ,Aitken Spence ,Dimo .Laugh Gas,Softlogic ,Citrus ,etc etc .I am an engineer with much exposure all over the world and in Sri Lanka .I could have executed some scrupulous plans to acquire competitors and develop or destroy but\u00a0 […]<\/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-59260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59260","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=59260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}