{"id":95763,"date":"2019-11-28T17:54:10","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T00:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=95763"},"modified":"2019-11-28T17:54:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T00:54:10","slug":"engaging-sri-lankas-born-professionals-nation-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/11\/28\/engaging-sri-lankas-born-professionals-nation-building\/","title":{"rendered":"ENGAGING SRI LANKA’S BORN PROFESSIONALS NATION BUILDING"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

I read articles published in national\nnewspapers in this subject and many reporters or writers did not consider\nessential points on this matter and some professionals overseas have primary\nviews that current professionals in Sri Lanka have no required knowledge,\nskills, experience to perform their work. \nIt is the not correct view. Many people have genuine intension to\ncontribute for nation building thrust because many professionals studied from\nkinder to university degrees at free of charge and working for such advantages\nuseful to nation building effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a quite good idea using Sri\nLanka’s born professionals for nation-building with limits.  Sri Lanka has legal provisions to use\nexpatriates for employment with certain limits. \nMany expatriates’ professionals work in private firms and there are\nlimits to use them too.  If Sri Lanka has\na shortage of professionals to successfully operate investment business,\nimmigration and exchange regulation allowed to use expatriates, addition overseas\nvolunteers also can engage in work and the USA, Australia, Canada, Japanese,\nChinese and Indian volunteers work in Sri Lanka.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some professionals who migrated to\nWestern Countries are not satisfied with the work they are engaged in and no\njob satisfaction to them in Western countries. \nThese professionals engaged in lower grade work based on two main\npoints.  One is they are paid in dollars,\nwhich is a higher amount of payment when converted to Sri Lanka’s rupees and\nthe other is when the whole family migrated, they have a good opportunity to\neducate children and employ them in good occupations. In Sri Lanka these\nopportunities are limited. Besides, there are other facilities such as free\nmedical and excellent pension facilities. \nSri Lanka cannot afford these facilities within the next twenty\nyears.  These are major constraints to\nattract Sri Lankan originated professionals back to the country for\nnation-building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second constraint seems whether\nthese professionals are ready to work for local salary or wages.  Sri Lanka cannot make special salary\nprovisions or treatments expatriate Sri Lankans over locally living\nprofessionals and if such thing happens there would be a clash between local\nprofessionals and overseas professionals. \nThere is no problem with volunteer service and Sri Lanka’s government\nneeds to negotiate with the government in Western countries to use professional\nwhile gaining benefits.  There is no\ndoubt that many Western governments shall not allow for this option as they\nallowed visas or granted citizenship for the benefits of the countries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Training Sri Lanka\u2019s employees in various professions by overseas professionals would be advantaged to the country as such an effort would be supported to develop workplace values, modern professional skills, promoting environmental education and key skills such as communication and customer service. If a volunteer program is planned more points need to be considered and it is essential to identify professional areas. Professional living in overseas should not be a burden to Sri Lanka. However, overseas professionals could widely express broader views on Sri Lanka’s programs and it would be more beneficial to the country .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS I read articles published in national newspapers in this subject and many reporters or writers did not consider essential points on this matter and some professionals overseas have primary views that current professionals in Sri Lanka have no required knowledge, skills, experience to perform their work.  It is the not correct view. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edward-theophilus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95763","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=95763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}