{"id":79209,"date":"2018-07-11T15:09:32","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T22:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=79209"},"modified":"2018-07-11T15:09:32","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T22:09:32","slug":"65-pct-of-sri-lanka-state-workers-do-not-have-a-levels-also-the-politicians-who-rule-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/07\/11\/65-pct-of-sri-lanka-state-workers-do-not-have-a-levels-also-the-politicians-who-rule-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"65-pct of Sri Lanka state workers do not have A-Levels. \u201cAlso \u00a0\u00a0the politicians who rule the country \u201c ??"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

ECONOMYNEXT – Less than seven percent of Sri Lanka’s 1.1 million public sector workforce have university degrees in commerce, management or science related areas, while 35 percent passed their A Levels, the government census and statistics office said.<\/p>\n

The Department of Census and Statics on Tuesday released the final report on the Public and Semi-Government Sector Employment Census conducted in 2016.<\/p>\n

“One in four of public sector employees hold degrees. Of the roughly 290,000 degree holders, more than half have arts degrees, while 14 percent have obtained degrees in management or commerce related fields and 10 percent in science,” the census and statistics office said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Only 35 percent had passed high-school, or the GCE Advanced Level Examination.<\/p>\n

The census excluded uniformed staff of the army, navy and air force.<\/p>\n

Of the 1.1 million public sector workers, 65 percent are employed by the central government.<\/p>\n

Female employment overall was at 45 percent: a low 36 percent in central government but a higher 62 percent representation at provincial and local government level.<\/p>\n

Sri Lanka’s graduates are also a net burden on society, who seek state jobs with tax payers, who have already funded their degrees being forced to pay lifetime salaries and pensions critics have said. (COLOMBO, 11 July, 2018)<\/p>\n

Unless Sri Lankan government changes the policies to impose a rule regarding qualifications of politicians when they place deposits to contest elections to demand that contestants should possess qualification with higher education .<\/p>\n

We have seen news item just after the local council elections where some three wheeler drivers. Fish mongers .grass cutters and natami\u2019s have contested and\u00a0 selected as members of the council. Obviously these law makers at lower level tend to employ their own kith and kins who have no education to public sector using their influence .<\/p>\n

First of all we need to have new \u00a0rules in the country to\u00a0\u00a0 impose on three wheeler drivers to have at least A level qualification and knowledge in English.<\/p>\n

I am sure when they are forced to pass such examination, they will find it difficult to pass .<\/p>\n

They may give up being three where drivers and move to skill \/unskilled labour jobs.<\/p>\n

We also need to have labour rules and minimum salary scale of labour so that they are enticed to work as labourers than three wheeler drivers,<\/p>\n

As Sri Lanka has a high shortage of labourers ,and most of the construction companies tend to bring people from their countries such as\u00a0 China .Our labour force can fill the gap .<\/p>\n

Prime Minister and some Harward Educated \/trained ministers keep talking about higher growth rates and future prosperity, but none of them have any idea about changing grass root level policies .<\/p>\n

In our trade of ship building and repair industry skilled labourers can earn over 100,000 rupees in equivalent of $600 ,which is the same salary paid in middle east<\/p>\n

With an advantage of being with\u00a0 family they may opt to stay in Sri Lanka and work .This is another solution to solve problems among Sri Lankan Families where family relationship are strained due to bread earners leaving the country leaving wife and children at home .<\/p>\n

In the future there should be a minimum education qualification level for any job in government sector .<\/p>\n

New Item in India<\/p>\n

PhD holders among 23 lakh applicants for peon jobs in UP INDIA<\/span><\/h2>\n

Graduates, post graduates and even Phd holders are among the 23 lakh applicants vying for the post of a peon in Uttar Pradesh government secretariat.<\/h3>\n

Graduates, postgraduates and even PhD holders are among the 23 lakh people who responded to an advertisement seeking applications for 368 posts of peons in the Uttar Pradesh government secretariat.<\/p>\n

The response has been a record of sorts, with more than 150,000 applications sent in by graduates and 24,969 by postgraduates. There were also more than 250 doctorates among the applicants, officials said.<\/p>\n

Aren\u2019t we lucky<\/em><\/strong> ??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr Sarath Obeysekera ECONOMYNEXT – Less than seven percent of Sri Lanka’s 1.1 million public sector workforce have university degrees in commerce, management or science related areas, while 35 percent passed their A Levels, the government census and statistics office said. The Department of Census and Statics on Tuesday released the final report on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sarath-obeysekera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79209","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=79209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}