{"id":92603,"date":"2019-08-25T16:42:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T23:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=92603"},"modified":"2019-08-25T16:42:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T23:42:51","slug":"can-you-trust-top-public-servants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/08\/25\/can-you-trust-top-public-servants\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you trust top public servants ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Today Sunday paper carried headline captioned  Pre Election bonanza for top public Servants<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More categories to get duty free vehicle permits equivalent\nto 22million <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We investors have frequent contact with public servants to\nget clearances for investment projects&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/sarath260819A.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-92604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/sarath260819A.jpg 646w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/sarath260819A-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 646px) 100vw, 646px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Top public servants are often critical about the Yahapalana\ngovernment and the ruling parties<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They expect a more dynamic leader with minimum reg to FR so\nthat they can also carve &nbsp;out sizable amounts from the gratuities which\ninvestors offer to politicians&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to get the investors to agree with their demand, projects are stalled<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Few important institutions purposely delay the projects which affect the growth rate in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am not sure whether the government \u00a0offering them duty-free vehicles will change their mind during voting time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government should totally abolish the duty-free facility and provide the income to poor masses to give subsidy for transport and staple food items<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0 Today Sunday paper carried headline captioned Pre Election bonanza for top public Servants More categories to get duty free vehicle permits equivalent to 22million We investors have frequent contact with public servants to get clearances for investment projects&nbsp; Top public servants are often critical about the Yahapalana government and the ruling parties [&hellip;]<\/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-92603","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\/92603","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=92603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}