{"id":62032,"date":"2017-01-04T23:55:46","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T05:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=62032"},"modified":"2017-01-04T16:29:28","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T23:29:28","slug":"volkswagen-factory-for-cars-and-shipyards-for-boats-for-canal-and-river-boats-why-step-mothers-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/01\/04\/volkswagen-factory-for-cars-and-shipyards-for-boats-for-canal-and-river-boats-why-step-mothers-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"VOLKSWAGEN FACTORY FOR CARS \u00a0AND SHIPYARDS \u00a0FOR BOATS FOR CANAL AND RIVER BOATS \u00a0\u2026\u2026..  WHY STEP MOTHER\u2019S TREATMENT?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>I am a ship builder trying to do what Volkwagen is planning to do ,But the difference is our ship\/boat building are of indigenous design providing much more employment than a Car factory .<\/p>\n<p>I proposed to develop a shipyard in Galle and\u00a0 the\u00a0 State is not bothered to help .Volkwagen factory is on a\u00a0 ground breaking and our shipyard cannot break \u00a0\u00a0the ground<\/p>\n<p>Government does not understand that we have water rightaround the island and many canals and rivers ,but no water transportation. Recently cabinet approved the concept of canal transportation, but the corporation in charge is unable to appoint a TEC ( technical committee ) to approve an issue \u00a0EOI ( expression of Interest ) followed by RFP ( Request for Proposal)<\/p>\n<p>New government has created such a bureaucracy by getting Treasury to appoint the TEC\u2019s ,which was never done before .To impress everyone that there is a transparency ,government wants treasury to approve the TEC members .Just like getting opinion\u00a0 from Attorney general for a state contract ,getting a valuation from Government valuer .obtaining Government Surveyor\u2019s plan for PPP project ,treasury will take ages to appoint a TEC .<\/p>\n<p>Because of this ridiculous practice, canal and rive transport project is not getting off the ground<\/p>\n<p>Government shall try not to manufacture cars which we have in the island in excess ,but to develop water transport with much vigour .None of the advisors and policy makers understand this fact .<\/p>\n<p>Shipyards can provide employment to few thousand if government think seriously about how to provide more employment to the youth<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0 I am a ship builder trying to do what Volkwagen is planning to do ,But the difference is our ship\/boat building are of indigenous design providing much more employment than a Car factory . I proposed to develop a shipyard in Galle and\u00a0 the\u00a0 State is not bothered to help .Volkwagen factory [&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-62032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62032","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=62032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}