{"id":91999,"date":"2019-08-06T14:06:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T21:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=91999"},"modified":"2019-08-06T14:06:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T21:06:46","slug":"national-service-is-a-must-to-a-developing-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/08\/06\/national-service-is-a-must-to-a-developing-country\/","title":{"rendered":"National Service is a must to a developing country"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

We keep watching TV about the daily demonstrations by young generations where male and female students with young monks with overgrown hair. What a waste of energy and valuable time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Russia, I remember how the young generation of the same age group in the universities behaved. They are supposed to do service in the forces after school before coming to university or after. Every summer group of youngsters was always sent to villages ( they use to call the farms KOLHOZ-means collective farm ) to either uproot potatoes or pluck cabbages. They loved those trips as they can enjoy a month on a holiday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I used to work in Norway, where all the youngsters are supposed to go for military training. I had a Sri Lankan friend whose both children served in the military in very cold winter times, When they were back I found the very discipline and progressive mind. Today they are married, buy a house at 24 years and live a disciplined life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have a friend in Singapore\nwho sent his son for military service and now he is a dentist doing well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Sri Lanka youngsters can be given the chance to serve in the Military where they are told to join as volunteers in Health, Agriculture, Engineering work, etc so that they have some basic idea where they can continue the education after a 1-2 year service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It may also be prudent to plan to entice some of them to be monks lime in Thailand so that they learn some spiritual aspects of life!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President is always talking about his strong decisions making actions citing revival of the death penalty .getting rid of drug menace etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What he should do is use his\nsomewhat dictatorial power (whatever left) and initiate national service for\nevery youngster in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strict monitoring of their behavior pattern should be carried out and the government should give the option to enter into a suitable education stream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether it is Premadasa or Gota of Nagananda who are aspiring to lead the country, should spell out plan to implement such a program to the people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am sure all the parents will vote for him <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Sarath Obeysekera <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Sarath Obeysekera We keep watching TV about the daily demonstrations by young generations where male and female students with young monks with overgrown hair. What a waste of energy and valuable time. In Russia, I remember how the young generation of the same age group in the universities behaved. They are supposed to do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91999","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\/91999","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=91999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}