{"id":61724,"date":"2016-12-22T09:51:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T16:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=61724"},"modified":"2016-12-22T09:51:44","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T16:51:44","slug":"hambantota-galle-and-trinco-development-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/12\/22\/hambantota-galle-and-trinco-development-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"HAMBANTOTA .GALLE AND TRINCO DEVELOPMENT PLANS \u2026\u2026.."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>\u00a0Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>I watched \u00a0various TV presentations ,read daily news items in national papers about accelerated plans with all three above ports as the nucleus of growth<\/p>\n<p>I also note that agency with a CEO\u00a0 with authoritarian powers under the New\u00a0 super minister will spearhead planning and kicking off \u00a0under the Guidance of the Prime Minister .<\/p>\n<p>Do we have an Executing Agency with Super Powers to follow up \u00a0the development plans with line agencies\u00a0 such as Tourist Board ,SLPA Ministry of Fisheries .Provicial Councils and Development\u00a0 boards as detailed in the draft gazette ?<\/p>\n<p>Having experience in working in plethora of projects like LNG plants.Refineries ,Dockayrds and Sea Reclamation etc ,and knowing the difficulties to get things done by UDA ,CEA etc\u00a0 I\u00a0 guarantee you that there is no one in Sri Lanka who can act as the  Executor\u201d of the projects<\/p>\n<p>I suggest that H E President leaves the planning and financing to the Super Minister and the agency and take over the execution upon himself .<\/p>\n<p>HE The President shall appoint a string ruthless super secretary \/executor under his command to order \/instruct\/advise and give deadlines to support agencies to execute the project .<\/p>\n<p>Unless this exercise is implemented with a touch of  authoritarianism\u201d\u00a0 with a democratic  Face  we will never achieve these ambitious plans as detailed by the Hon Minister of Strategic Development.<\/p>\n<p>It will be like the tallest Christmas tree which need completion by X mas eve but a Vardah \u00a0Cyclone may shake the foundation if you do not execute it properly !<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0 I watched \u00a0various TV presentations ,read daily news items in national papers about accelerated plans with all three above ports as the nucleus of growth I also note that agency with a CEO\u00a0 with authoritarian powers under the New\u00a0 super minister will spearhead planning and kicking off \u00a0under the Guidance of the [&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-61724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61724","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=61724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}