{"id":79078,"date":"2018-07-06T15:26:46","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T22:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=79078"},"modified":"2018-07-06T15:26:46","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T22:26:46","slug":"hopes-for-a-better-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/07\/06\/hopes-for-a-better-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopes for a better Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Lionel Rajapakse<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>No question, Sri Lanka is in a muddy puddle because of the politicians we selected during the last couple of decades and their actions. Lots of Gurus are talking about how can Sri Lanka get out of this muddy puddle. There is no second alternative, \u00a0Gotabhaya is the only hope for Sri Lanka in the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>So, to help him to get Sri Lanka out of this muddy puddle, can we suggest the basic things he has to address when he becomes the next President of Sri Lanka. Followings are the few things he should give priority as I think.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Give priority for the development of rural economy rather than giving priority to urban developments.<\/li>\n<li>Work out an independent system to recruit for public service and other affiliated institutions such as state banks and corporations on merit system, without any interference from the politicians.<\/li>\n<li>No political interference for any appointment either in public service or private sector.<\/li>\n<li>Make it compulsory for Sinhalese public servants to learn Tamil and Tamil public servants to learn Sinhala.<\/li>\n<li>Make it compulsory for the Sinhalese students to learn Tamil from the grade 3 and vice versa.<\/li>\n<li>Make a full review of the judicial system. Consult Naganada Kodituwakku and get his views \/ assistance<\/li>\n<li>Get rid of the provincial councils as it is a waste of money. This may be a hard task and some one can come with an alternative.<\/li>\n<li>Review foreign service and open it for only qualified people. No political appointments.<\/li>\n<li>Let JVP to suggest what they expect from Gota. Implement whatever suitable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I invite all of you to add what you think it is necessary for Gota to do to get Sri Lanka out of the current muddy puddle. There are lots of Pundits who talk about big changes to happen in Sri Lanka. Let us get real and suggest the simple things the common man expect from the next leader in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Rajapakse No question, Sri Lanka is in a muddy puddle because of the politicians we selected during the last couple of decades and their actions. Lots of Gurus are talking about how can Sri Lanka get out of this muddy puddle. There is no second alternative, \u00a0Gotabhaya is the only hope for Sri Lanka [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79078","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=79078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}