{"id":67843,"date":"2017-07-14T17:14:24","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T00:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=67843"},"modified":"2017-07-14T17:14:24","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T00:14:24","slug":"upul-jayasuriya-resigns-as-boi-chairman-news-item","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/07\/14\/upul-jayasuriya-resigns-as-boi-chairman-news-item\/","title":{"rendered":"Upul Jayasuriya resigns as BOI Chairman\u2026\u2026..\u00a0 News Item"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

I am not surprised!<\/p>\n

We change the pillow as a means to cure your headache ? I am sure that Upul is a honest person but he failed to deliver .We have been dealing with BOI since the inception and we have seen how the dynamism has deteriorated .There was a time during MR when BOI was run by a Tycoon owning Casinos .Then it was run by a chemical engineer who had no clue about industries in Sri Lanka.Even now there are DG\u2019s .and plethora of directors who have no power to push any government agency to\u00a0 provide help to investors ,They used to call a Stop Shop ,but lately we call it Non Stop shop .<\/p>\n

I remember the case when I approached BOI to expedite the approval to recommence the Ship Repair Yard in Galle which was delayed due to Saudi Investors bolting away after Aluthgama Fiascos by BBS .UPUL called a meeting and invited SLPA Director to investigate and assist where they agreed to consider recommencement. BOI did not\u00a0 followed up at higher level to instruct the minister at that time to assist the investor .SLPA took a unilateral decision and cancelled the project .Today Galle Harbour is overgrown with weeds representing a bush land in Africa with no tangible project getting off the ground\u00a0 .I kept pressing BOI and once called the Female DG who had no clue about such an important project .When I called her secretary ,I was asked to wait to give her the call and I overheard her blasting \u00a0the secretary Who is that ? I told you to tell everyone that I am not in !\u201d<\/p>\n

This is how overpaid extravagant BOI top brass help investors.<\/p>\n

I wonder who will take the helm of BOI ,but I can guarantee that unless President and PM holds by weekly meetings like Premadasa and follow up action to speed up investment in Sri Lanka nothing will happen .<\/p>\n

BOI should be placed under the President Directly and appoint a dynamic Private Sector CEO who does not have strings attached to his own business activities .All the top brass from BOI should be sent on compulsory retirement with the whole board and revamp the structure.<\/p>\n

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Dr Sarath Obeysekera I am not surprised! We change the pillow as a means to cure your headache ? I am sure that Upul is a honest person but he failed to deliver .We have been dealing with BOI since the inception and we have seen how the dynamism has deteriorated .There was a time […]<\/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-67843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67843","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=67843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}