{"id":95567,"date":"2019-11-24T00:18:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T06:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=95567"},"modified":"2019-11-23T17:15:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T00:15:55","slug":"assigning-presidential-manifesto-subjects-to-ministries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/11\/24\/assigning-presidential-manifesto-subjects-to-ministries\/","title":{"rendered":"ASSIGNING  PRESIDENTIAL MANIFESTO SUBJECTS TO MINISTRIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The 15 Cabinet Ministers&#8217; workload is quite challenging. Each Minister needs to have at least 2 State Ministers. Each State Minister needs to have qualified Professionals and Academics, consisting of at least one identified in each of the allocated Subjects.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other words, <strong>the\nstructure should provide a direct link to each Page in the Saubhagaya Dekma (\nthe Presidential Manifesto or Vision and Mission Statement of the President)\nassigning the commitments made to the public.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neither Ministers nor State Ministers are qualified to implement the Manifesto.\u00a0 They are politicians.\u00a0 The Establishment Hierarchy at the Ministries such as Secretaries (previously Permanent Secretaries) and the rest will be responsible for implementing the decisions, within FR and AR.\u00a0 <strong>But looking at the Manifesto and Implementing the tasks is not their responsibility<\/strong>.\u00a0 <strong>They are different kinds of Animals of their own, within the Box. That responsibility should remain within the Cabinet Ministers, State Ministers, <\/strong>and the Professionals and Academics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The primary objective of the structure will be to ensure developing short term targets for each Subject.\u00a0 The IT Professionals could quite easily develop a package of Targets vs Performances matrix with drill-down analysis for each State Minister and Cabinet Minister.\u00a0 It will also highlight critical areas where Performances are falling behind the Target and the reasons, with an appropriate plan for remedial actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the Prime Minister\nand the President review achievements, probably fortnightly,&nbsp; the\nimplementation progress can be measured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the long run- some\nState Ministers and even Cabinet Ministers, need to be provided extensive\ntraining on the Performance Evaluation essentials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first three months, the Prime Minister and the President can obtain first-hand information on capabilities of Professionals, Academics, State and Cabinet Ministers, which will be valuable going forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Vision and Mission Statement of the President should become the Bible for the Cabinet, \u00a0State Ministers, and the Advisors.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE The 15 Cabinet Ministers&#8217; workload is quite challenging. Each Minister needs to have at least 2 State Ministers. Each State Minister needs to have qualified Professionals and Academics, consisting of at least one identified in each of the allocated Subjects.\u00a0 In other words, the structure should provide a direct link [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-m-d-p-dissanayake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95567","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=95567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}