This is not a question. I am from Canada and speak to my friends and relations in S/L regularly. In my conversations, I notice that many of them are not aware that in a Presidential Election, the winning candidate must obtain 51% or more. To make matters worse, many of the "Analysts" who are on YouTube constantly say: "This time no candidate is going to get 51%". I think this is another "Ploy" played by the opponents of the NPP. Neither do I see the NPP educating the voters on this very important subject of securing the "51%" vote if the NPP is to win and act on the policy initiatives. For your attention, please.
Thank you for your suggestion . You are right . We will take your point seriously and will do the needful.
What is the road map that NPP is developed to introduce IT technologies in Sri Lanka , and what are the steps taken to popularized Theis within the government school network.
Thank you for your question. ICT is one of the key service sectors that we focus on in our road map towards revenue generation and human capital development. We bring in industry into the education sector at tertiary level whereby graduates and technicians are produced according to industry requirements. Graduates will do their projects with the industry and there will be guaranteed employment for the youth when they finish their degrees. There will be opportunity for knowledge transfer. In addition , from the primary level in the school system , children will have an enabling environment to acquire basic ICT skills that will facilitate their higher studies . Government will allocate more provision for the sector development and we expect to earn 5 billion USD in the first two years of government.
මම පාසල් ශිෂ්‍යයෙක්.අවුරුදු 19යි.අපි ලංගම වාර ප්‍රවේශ පත්‍රවලින් තමයි බවල යන්නෙ.ඒ වුනාට ලංගම බස් අපිට නවත්තන්නෙ නෑ.අපි සීසන් කියල දැනගත්තම.හිඟන්නන්ට වගේ සලකන්නෙ.බස් එකකට නැග්ගහම කොන්දොස්තරගෙ ලොකුකම බලන්ඩ ඕනි.සමහර බස්වල සීසන් ලමයින්ට ඉඳගන්ඩ දෙන්නෙ නෑ.සීසන් කියල දැනගත්තහම මගින් බස්සවනව.ඉකෝලෙ නිතරම යැවෙන්නෙ නැති වුනාට පන්ති යන්ඩ සීසන් එක ගොඩක් වටිනව.නැත්නම් ටියුෂන් ගාස්තුවලට වැඩිය බස්වලට වියදමක් යනව.දැන් සීසන් එකක් ගන්ඩ ලියුමක් ඕනි ඉස්කෝලෙන්.රස්සාවල් කරන අය ශිෂ්‍ය සීසන් ගන්නව කියල තමයි ඕක කරල තියෙන්නෙ.දැන් සීසන් යන ලමයි රැවුල් වන්ඩහෙමත් බෑ කියල දඹුල්ල ඩිපෝවෙන් ලියුමක් දාලතියනව මම දැක්ක.තාක්ෂණේ දියුණු කාලෙක barcode system එකක් වගේ පාවිච්චි කරල සීසන් දුන්නනම් කාටවත් හොරබොරු කරන්ව බෑ.ඔක්කොම විස්තර ටික තියනවනෙ.මේ ප්‍රශ්නෙට විසඳුමක් හදල දෙන්න කියල ඉල්ලා සිටිනවා.
අපේ රජයක් යටතේ වැඩියෙන්ම අවධානයට යොමු කරන වගේම කෙටි කාලයකින් ලොකුම වෙනසක් කරන්න බලාපොරොත්තු වෙන ක්ෂේත්‍රයක් තමයි අධ්‍යාපනය. අපි එතනදි කිසිම දරුවෙක් අධ්‍යාපනයෙන් පිටමං වීම සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම වළක්වනවා. ඒ වගේම දරුවන්ට සතුටින් වගේම පහසුවෙන් පාසල් යන්න පුලුවන් පරිසරයක් නිර්මාණය කරනවා. ඒ වෙනුවෙන් බොහෝමයක් දේ කරන්න බලාපොරොත්තු වෙනවා. ඒ අතරින් මෙන්න මේ වගේ දේවල් වහාම කරන්න බලාපොරොත්තු වෙනවා.
This is for Chaturanga. Hi Chaturanga, Will you continue with the divesture of SOE irrespective if they are loss making or not? Will you take over privately held property? More questions to come. Thank you, Kind regards, Saroj Samarajiwa
Thank you for your question. NPP is not going to run hotels or to sell coconut or to import eggs. The government will have its core business functioning without interruption while ensuring the service delivery in the most efficient manner . The SOEs are loss making because of undue political intervention, corruption and mismanagement . Under an NPP government , it is always assured that no political intervention or cronies are appointed to manage government owned enterprises. Those which should have government management will have competent people in top positions duly appointed . Those that need private parties involved we will invite investments for models like PPP, PPPP, or 100% private. NPP has no intention to take over private property ,nor does it have ever said so verbally or in writing . NPP will ensure that people will have property rights safeguarded and the government will assist the owners of such property financially and technically to make those property more productive . NPP is a party that always wish to see that the rights of people are better protected.
The history and pattern of voting has always been, for some strange reason, for people to side with two main parties - in the last election while the two main parties, the UNP and SLFP fell by the wayside, two new parties emerged as front runners, ie Gotabaya's and Sajith's - So how do you plan to break this as well as attract voters - can this party do what these two did, leading unknown parties to victory or sizable voter base ? Also people still associate certain groups with a violent past, can you manage to win over people who are not favourable to the current govt but still have this feeling of distrust strongly embedded in their psyche ? Isn't it the way that you approach this protests and opposition a factor that causes apprehension amongst large number of people ? Maybe it's the fact that people have a fear of an untested or unknown party that prevents an inclination to vote or support you ? Or, the fact that people are still willing to bear up more hardship before they actually raise their head up and realise their situation, like the story of the frog placed in water and gradually boiled alive ? Or is it because corruption is so embedded in society that people fear if they vote the current rulers out they themselves will be targeted for being part of the regimes which brought the country to this level ?
Thank you for mentioning your concerns and queries about the people's mandate . People in Sri Lanka have given power to the parties you have mentioned one after the other every five years. After 75 years, you can see where they have taken the country to. The country is bankrupted and now every sellable public asset is being disposed by the government to find money. The austerity measures imposed by the IMF have put the people from the frying pan to the fire. People have now realized their predicament and we believe that they have now decided what they should do at the next election. The neoliberal policies of both parties that have ruled the country from 1977 have failed. People's selection now is, no doubt , the NPP. It is shown in opinion polls that NPP is well ahead of all other parties , and the islandwide responses we get justify that people have tremendous faith in the NPP. NPP policies will have sustainable solutions to social and economic problems in the country. The government doesn't want to have elections because they know that they will lose their grip. We have the confidence that people will elect NPP to power at the next election and we invite you too to be a party to the victory of NPP.
