{"id":81804,"date":"2018-10-08T14:48:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T21:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=81804"},"modified":"2018-10-08T14:48:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T21:48:48","slug":"garbage-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/10\/08\/garbage-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Garbage Talk \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0(Rome is burning, Nero plays fiddle\u00a0 \u2026.?\u00a0 OR\u00a0 are our rules fiddling with sentiments of the people ?) )<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Yesterday\u2019s TV news showed Colombo Mayor (rests) Talking rubbish<\/strong> .She was asking President and PM to intervene in resolving the problem, where SLLRDC is refusing to accept CMC\u00a0 garbage\u00a0 to Muthurajawela Site.<\/p>\n

CMC should be thankful to SLLRDC for accepting to allow dumping of garbage despite many protests from public and environmentalists sometime back.<\/p>\n

Ugly site of dumping ground is also visible to all travelling to and from airport even after authorities try to cover the ugly scene by installing a net by side of the highway.<\/p>\n

During my time in SLLRDC I had various issues with then Mayors\u2019 of Colombo when it comes to illegal constructions and dumping garbage .I hardly could meet the mayor as the chairman even if I had requested time to meet .<\/p>\n

One lady engineer from CMC was the only person who was willing to help the projects, specifically the Canal Development Project .<\/p>\n

CMC not only keeps a blind eye against illegal constructions along road reservations, canal banks aggravating flood control problem.<\/p>\n

Main problem we have today ,is all the Mayors who are mainly close confidantes of the PM or President think that they are above all and try to undermine authorities who are from other ministries.<\/p>\n

CMC earns millions, but waste the funds to pay their idling staff, Whole CMC is full of corrupted officers .Mayor should at least come to SLLRDC and discuss with the Chairman and agree on a payment plan to ease the problem.<\/p>\n

Verbal abuse by the mayor that SLLRDC is seeking a kappam\u201d would not only and insults the public officers , but also illustrates the nakedness of the government where decision making, is lacking.<\/p>\n

One call from PM from Norway ( where I incidentally worked for three years where Oslo Mayor and Government never exchange such dirty Salvos) or another call from HE ( From Seychelles ??( where I was in few months back to see how clean and beautiful that country is) to the Mayoress of elite class from Colombo 7 and tell her in uncertain terms \u00a0that SHE has to move her butt from their mighty seat of the Council ,move around in area like Colombo 15 where deprived people live and help the Corporation to solve the problem .<\/p>\n

Main problem we are facing now is not the uncollected garbage, but nonexistence of decision making process ,and Tug of War between main parties which formed this Yahapalana state apparatchik.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/07\/02\/cardinal-joins-protestors-against-garbage-dumping-in-muthuirajawela-god-save-the-country-from-garbage\/<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/07\/18\/garbage-and-rotting-country-with-overaged-politians\/<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/04\/24\/garbage-fiasco-and-no-solution-in-the-horizon\/<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/04\/15\/open-letter-to-he-the-president-minister-of-megapolis-minister-of-disaster-management-and-chief-minister-western-provincial-council-solution-to-emergency-situation-in-meethotlamull\/<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/10\/12\/we-need-state-of-emergency-or-martial-law-if-state-wants-to-solve-garbage-problem\/<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/06\/15\/shangrila-is-angry-with-galle-face\/<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/04\/16\/sri-lanka-rubbish-dump-deaths-still-they-dump-bbc\/<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/04\/18\/garbage-problem-at-least-one-minister-talks-sense\/<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/06\/30\/insult-to-premadasa-and-gotabaya\/<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/06\/12\/wonder-of-asia-back-to-square-one-again-and-again\/<\/a><\/p>\n

If the decision makers read articles in the press and try to learn from people with experience, Garbage problem would have bearnt\u201d long time ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0(Rome is burning, Nero plays fiddle\u00a0 \u2026.?\u00a0 OR\u00a0 are our rules fiddling with sentiments of the people ?) ) Yesterday\u2019s TV news showed Colombo Mayor (rests) Talking rubbish .She was asking President and PM to intervene in resolving the problem, where SLLRDC is refusing to accept CMC\u00a0 garbage\u00a0 to Muthurajawela Site. CMC […]<\/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-81804","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\/81804","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=81804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}