{"id":68295,"date":"2017-07-27T16:25:50","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T23:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=68295"},"modified":"2017-07-27T16:25:50","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T23:25:50","slug":"justice-minister-suggests-boi-shutdown-news-item","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/07\/27\/justice-minister-suggests-boi-shutdown-news-item\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Minister suggests BOI shutdown\u2026\u2026\u2026.News Item"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>BOI is supposed to be one stop shop for investors .People pay money to get registered as a BOI company and keep paying annual fee for it\u2019s upkeep .BOI is also top-heavy agency occupying prime location in the World Trade Centre.<\/p>\n<p>.During JR \u2018s time when it was started it was doing a yeoman service to the country by promoting investments and then facilitating speedy approvals .During R Premadasa\u2019s time all Garment Factories were built under BOI flag and investment was booming.<\/p>\n<p>Can anyone identify a single Industry started during the last few years? Highly paid officers globetrotting ,spending public\u00a0 money holding road shows ,do not contribute to the development .<\/p>\n<p>As suggested ,BOI should be fully shutdown and form an agency under the President and call it the\u00a0 Investment Support Agency . so that HE the President can personally monitor investments like R Premadasa<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera BOI is supposed to be one stop shop for investors .People pay money to get registered as a BOI company and keep paying annual fee for it\u2019s upkeep .BOI is also top-heavy agency occupying prime location in the World Trade Centre. .During JR \u2018s time when it was started it was doing [&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-68295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68295","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=68295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}