{"id":62620,"date":"2017-01-23T22:53:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T04:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=62620"},"modified":"2017-01-23T14:59:41","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T21:59:41","slug":"slpa-udaceaccd-rda-heads-and-ministers-do-not-listen-to-instructions-from-development-committees-appointed-by-the-prime-minister-and-finance-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/01\/23\/slpa-udaceaccd-rda-heads-and-ministers-do-not-listen-to-instructions-from-development-committees-appointed-by-the-prime-minister-and-finance-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"SLPA ,UDA,CEA,CCD ,RDA&#8212;HEADS AND  MINISTERS DO NOT LISTEN TO INSTRUCTIONS FROM DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEES APPOINTED BY THE PRIME MINISTER AND FINANCE MINISTER ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Myself \u00a0as an investor have \u00a0been called to\u00a0 committees \u00a0run by Prime Minister , Finance Minister ,Advisor to Prime Minster to sort out many issues related to stalled progress of over 50 million $ worth investments which can\u00a0 generate much income for the country \u00a0and generate employment<\/p>\n<p>They are EODB (Ease of doing Business), CCEM ( Cabinet Committee for\u00a0 Economic Development ),\u00a0 OCEM\u00a0 (Officials Committee on Economic Management ) where I was called in to discuss \u00a0and eradicate the stumbling blocks created by all the agencies \u00a0,in order find solutions ..May be I have been one of the most frequent visitors of these forums ( Only solace is I have not yet been called to \u00a0FCID though I have a feeling that in it also imminent !!)<\/p>\n<p>Initially ,heads of the agencies came for the meetings ,and now they keep sending some low level director or an officer to provide answers to the delays caused by the bureaucracy of these agencies .Sad thing is ,whoever\u00a0 chairs these committees , ( PM ,FM or Top Advisors ) do not ask why the head of the agency does not come to the meetings to provide workable solutions.<\/p>\n<p>When they call the item to be taken up at these weekly\/monthly forums , first Question the Chair ask is  Any one from SLPA or UDA or RDA?? Etc .They never ask the Question  Where is the Head of the Agency  to answer to the query of the Investor.<\/p>\n<p>Few examples are as follows<\/p>\n<p>All three committee have called SLPA ,RDA ,and UDA ,CCD to the meetings to solve issues for over two years about two projects in Galle ,.but so far no solutions offered .<\/p>\n<p>Government should think seriously about these shortcomings and make serious changes to the way these committees are run (if they cannot improve the efficiency of the Agencies mentioned above)<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera Myself \u00a0as an investor have \u00a0been called to\u00a0 committees \u00a0run by Prime Minister , Finance Minister ,Advisor to Prime Minster to sort out many issues related to stalled progress of over 50 million $ worth investments which can\u00a0 generate much income for the country \u00a0and generate employment They are EODB (Ease of [&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-62620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62620","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=62620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}