{"id":62192,"date":"2017-01-09T19:16:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T01:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=62192"},"modified":"2017-01-09T09:36:26","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T16:36:26","slug":"ministers-make-statements-without-thinking-about-the-need-of-the-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/01\/09\/ministers-make-statements-without-thinking-about-the-need-of-the-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministers make statements without thinking about the need of the hour\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Prime minister\u00a0 is quite upbeat about providing employment to one million youth .That may be the reason why government \u00a0hand over lands and ports to private sector hurriedly to prove the point.<\/p>\n<p>How can factories automate production in Sri Lanka ?We need to give jobs to youth ,who are lamenting about unemployment. Minister\u2019s statement does not make any sense .What we need is a workforce who should be trained to increase efficiency and factory owners should offer extra bonus for increasing output .In our business of ship repair and building we offer the workers to increase output and we pay additional amounts for the increased productivity. In Building trade they do the same thing .<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62193\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/sarath090116A.jpg\" alt=\"sarath090116a\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/sarath090116A.jpg 512w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/sarath090116A-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the tea industry we pay additional amounts for additional output to the norm..In bricklaying we pay for the amount of bricks laid in multiple of thousands<\/p>\n<p>What is to be \u00a0advocated is we should improve management and train working class to work faster and more efficiently rather than encouraging factory owners to automate.<\/p>\n<p>I expected better from a young learned minister who stands out talking sense \u00a0!<br \/>\nDr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera Prime minister\u00a0 is quite upbeat about providing employment to one million youth .That may be the reason why government \u00a0hand over lands and ports to private sector hurriedly to prove the point. How can factories automate production in Sri Lanka ?We need to give jobs to youth ,who are lamenting about unemployment. [&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-62192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62192","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=62192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}