{"id":85449,"date":"2019-02-09T18:29:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T01:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=85449"},"modified":"2019-02-09T18:29:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T01:29:17","slug":"inland-waterway-transporation-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/02\/09\/inland-waterway-transporation-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Inland waterway transporation in Sri lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr sarath obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<div dir=\"auto\">it is almost three years when SLLRDC \u00a0mooted the idea to involve private sector to invest in launching a boat srvice in canals anf rivers in sri lanka<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">We saw some navy boats oprating a little while but it did not continue<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Dutch funding was also provided to carry out a feasibility study<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Again it was a waste of money as the team who worked in the consultancy team did not study the need and difficulties to operate<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Private sector tried to workout a project to implement but it did not workout<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Now SlLRDC \u00a0is trying again with navy to build some ferries and oprate in Beira Lake<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Good idea , but you need strong air freshners in the boat to suppress the stench in \u00a0Beira<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Canal transportation is facing problems due to crocodile infestation<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">What can we do?<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I suggest to allow any private citizen to deploy a boat with 20 passenger capacity and start operating few boats and SLLRDC to charge Canal Tax like Road tax imposed on private buses and deploy Canal Police to monitor speed and Canal Inspectors to check condition of boats and Wild Life inspectors \u00a0to stop people harming Crocodiles crossing Poldoowa bridge and have Choon Pan type flour based short eat selling in the boats to generate more income for operators<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">One more suggestion is to add another minister to the Mega Cabinet proposed \u00a0for \u00a0Water Transpotation who had expience in fishing ,wild life and public transport who should not sleep during the journey<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_signature\" dir=\"ltr\" data-smartmail=\"gmail_signature\">Dr Sarath Obeysekera<br \/>\nCEO Walkers Colombo Shipyard<br \/>\nColombo<br \/>\nSri Lanka<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr sarath obeysekera it is almost three years when SLLRDC \u00a0mooted the idea to involve private sector to invest in launching a boat srvice in canals anf rivers in sri lanka We saw some navy boats oprating a little while but it did not continue Dutch funding was also provided to carry out a feasibility [&hellip;]<\/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-85449","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\/85449","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=85449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}