{"id":93196,"date":"2019-09-21T15:49:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T22:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=93196"},"modified":"2019-09-21T15:50:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T22:50:15","slug":"93196","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/09\/21\/93196\/","title":{"rendered":"National export awards 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath OBEYSEKERA<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-lankaweb-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"BNnvp3utMw\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/09\/14\/presidential-export-awards-today-at-bmich\/\">PRESIDENTIAL EXPORT AWARDS TODAY\u00a0 AT BMICH\u2026.<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;PRESIDENTIAL EXPORT AWARDS TODAY\u00a0 AT BMICH\u2026.&#8221; &#8212; LankaWeb.com\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/09\/14\/presidential-export-awards-today-at-bmich\/embed\/#?secret=Srh1CP27es#?secret=BNnvp3utMw\" data-secret=\"BNnvp3utMw\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>PRESIDENTIAL EXPORT AWARDS\nTODAY&nbsp; AT BMICH\u2026.<\/strong><br>\nPosted on September 14th, 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>EDB invited me as a boat\nbuilder to the award ceremony today and watched how exporters of Sri Lanka Tea\n,Apparel ,fish ,cineman,coconut shells ,Gems ,few rubber products flowers\n,ornamental fish ,herbal products,gift items &nbsp;etc etc garbbing gold plated\nawards .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apparel exporters took the\ncentre stage reminding me the days of Premadasa who had a vision to develop the\nindustry many decades back ,and yet we are still talking about apparel\nexports&nbsp; and giving awards .Singapore also started with apparel industry\nand small handicraft exports and moved to high tech and financial services\nduring next few decades ,and yet we are still earning 1% of GDP from\n&nbsp;exports .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/awards2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-93198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/awards2.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/awards2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Government should now leave\napparel industry to look after themselves and harness the export potential of\nsoftware ,hardware and other high tech commodities<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you hear speeches given by\nHarward trained ministers and bureaucrats one can see that none of them have\nany vision .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I will not be surprised if a\nManpower Export Agency will grab the gold award for exports next year and the\ngovernment may not even grace the occasion !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wrote this article in 2017&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As an invitee I attended National Export awards Ceremony in\n2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regretbly our development is still at stand still<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apparel Industry is leading since the time of Premadasa and\nwe have not gone forward<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then again<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"770\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Awards.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-93197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Awards.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Awards-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Awards-768x289.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By\nCharumini de Silva<br>\n<br>\nMAS Holdings was awarded the Export Conglomerate of the Year award, while\nBrandix Apparel Ltd. won the Exporter of the Year award at the 23rd\nPresidential Export Award ceremony held yesterday under the patronage of\nPresident Maithripala Sirisena.<br>\n<br>\nThe awards ceremony, organised annually by the Sri Lanka Export Development\nBoard (EDB), is the most important annual national event that recognises and\nhonours Sri Lanka&#8217;s export champions for their excellence in the 2018\/2019\nfinancial year. This year\u2019s ceremony gave away 81 awards in total, including 14\noverall awards, 42 sectoral awards and 33 merit awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are\nwe going forward???<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr\nSarath OBEYSEKERA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath OBEYSEKERA PRESIDENTIAL EXPORT AWARDS TODAY&nbsp; AT BMICH\u2026. 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