Open Letter to the
Southern Sri Lankans.
By Engr. Kanthar Balanathan
DipEE (UK),
GradCert (RelEng-Monash), DipBus&Adm (Finance-Massey), C.Eng., MIEE,
Former
Director of Power Engineering Solutions Pty Ltd, Consulting Electrical
Engineers
Leading Engineer
of the World 2006, UK Authority Award
General
This article is scripted with a focus
on innovative, creative, inventive, flexible, and productive perspectives for
the Sri Lankans to cognise and apprehend to make Sri Lanka a prosperous and
scientific state for growth. People also must not focus everything on a
political perspective. Today the majority of educated people are leaving SL for
wealth and money which can be earned in SL with mental satisfaction in their
community.
There is no point in people just
blaming the President (RW) as the whole legislature forum and the 22 million
people should be incarnate with the President. Every MP is corrupt and involved
in bribery and corruption to accumulate wealth for his election victory.
The author, though born in
Manipay, Jaffna, grew up in Kamburupitiya and Matara, and lived in several
countries, and hence the experience gathered makes the person judge the Sri
Lankan mass.
Strength
When SL received its independence
from the British, the then leader D.S. Senanayake, had a strong focus on
Structural Transformation and step by step he wanted SL to grow. Initially, the
country had skilled human resources for agrarian services which DSS wanted to
exploit. However, later SWRD Bandaranaike introduced the racial conflict by
bringing the language policy which created a vacuum for the production. SWRDB’
s language policy did not improve the economic status of the country but
annulled the growth. Since 1956, the productivity of the agrarian sector
started to decline as people were focused on government jobs and overseas jobs.
People started to shout, ‘අපේ ආණ්ඩුව”. This was due
to the lack of knowledge and understanding by the people on the economics and
production possibilities curve. What is PPC?
Quote:
The production possibilities curve (PPC) is a graph that shows all of the different combinations of output
that can be produced given current resources and technology. Sometimes called the production possibilities
frontier (PPF), the PPC illustrates scarcity and trade-offs.
The lack of understanding of economics by the then
politicians led the country to seek aid for the supply of agrarian products
from China and India.
The
author would like to refer readers to refer the following book: ANCIENT CEYLON, An
Account of the Aborigines and of Part of the Early Civilisation. BY, H. PARKER,
Late of the Irrigation Department, Ceylon, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR, LONDON
The Kings of SL in the early centuries had a focus on
agrarian services as an initial priority. It was marvellous for the Southern
kings with no degree or diploma to have focussed on priorities. The book will
explain what the author is endeavouring to explain. Readers can download or
read the book from: https://www.scribd.com/document/438670840/Ancient-Ceylon-by-H-Parker#.
As time passed by people forgot their priorities and with
their zealous eagerness wanted easy jobs and luxury goods at low cost with no
understanding of how the GOSL can import them with no FOREX.
The Sri Lankan culture has been that they are champions in
bribery and corruption with maximum topping up in the political sector. We are
aware now of how the economy drooped down to zero FOREX from 2004 to 2019. As
of today, our strength should be on agrarian products and subsequently go
through an industrial revolution. Although we started to move into the
industrial sector, SL had the avidity with no proper planning on investment
analysis. Personal interests began conflicting with the budget and finances
along with the bribery and corruption by the executives and politicians.
DSS philosophy of United National Party (එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය) for the political platform was quite
positive and effective to unite the people for growth. What we need is Unity
and not discord/disharmony. However, the politicians who deliberated
later had their political philosophy twisted on racist ideologies which were
triggered by the Tamil politicians (particularly by SJV Chelvanayagam).
Economy & Forex
The Central Bank is the nerve Centre of a country, and the
organisation should be left to operate by itself with guidance on plans from
the government. SL had a bad reputation for interfering with the CB by powerful
politicians in the past and hence corrupt administration. The priorities were
not defined then, however, now CB has prioritised imports and exports.
Citizens should follow the CB papers weekly to know the
inflation and price indexes etc. Citizens should have some knowledge of
economics and finances rather than wanting everything free on their table. CB has
a good team headed by Dr Nandalal Weerasinghe to operate the CB.
Sri Lanka also has a good dynamic leader to govern SL, and
that is Hon Mr Ranil Wickramasinghe. Those individuals who criticise the President should know whether
they could have managed the country’s economy when we went down on FOREX.
Everyone howls like animals with a lack of understanding of economics and
politics with avidity for power. Those who want to enjoy power without
knowledge of politics are howling against the President. Why not corporate and
give a helping hand like mature politicians? Wimal Weerawansa is another joker
who has absolutely no knowledge of economics, but racial politics like SWRDB
only. He cannot understand that racism in the 21st century will not
make progress. The same goes for the Tamils and the Tamil attorneys. Could
anyone else in SL would have resurrected the country after the fall of FOREX in
2019, but RW, our president?
As far as the Tamis are concerned the good leaders as of
now are Duglas Devananda, Jeevan Thondaman, Angajan Ramanathan and maybe Arun
Siddharth. Let the Tamil population support these politicians and see the
progress. Casteism does not bring progress and development. Tamils should know
that. Sri Lankan can see the way the three TriStar’s are steering through the
political platform, particularly, DD and JT. However, what are the old folks
like Sambanthar and CVV steering for? Power sharing, but not work for progress
and development.
Sambanthar & Co can survive without food; however, they
are unable to survive without power. Why do they want power? Because then they
can oppress and discriminate against the poor lower and middle-caste Tamils. At
the moment those Tamils are doing well which the Tamil elites are unable to digest. What difference will it make with power to
the Tamils? Since Tamils are unable to oppress the lower-class Tamils at home,
now they are discriminating against Tamils overseas. It's crystal clear with
the Tamil diaspora. Every temple, organisation and forum are managed by foolish
elite doctors. These old folks’ politicians are steering the diaspora
organisations like BTF, GTF, TGTE, etc to work and campaign against SL.
The country's economy is not satisfactory and there is no
need for Provincial Council administration. Sri Lanka is a small country. Maybe,
the Provincial Governor position could be changed to an elected position. The
constitution could be amended to reflect the changes. Sri Lanka does not need a
provincial government but can manage with an elected Governor for each
province. The old fools like Sambanthar, CVV & Co should leave politics
and let the young ones take over the politics.
Priorities
People should understand what the priorities are: Agriculture
is fundamental and let the Sri Lankans embark on making the country
self-sufficient rather than aspiring for electric cars. Well, if you have the
knowledge and resources, then make your cars. Find an alternative to gas
cooking to suit our culture. Don’t aspire for iPhone 15, but normal mobile
phones to fall within our Forex. Do not aspire to what Americans have but what
is available in SL. If not make your own by invention, creativity, innovation
etc.
Fighting for religion is a waste in the 21st
century. SL has been a Buddhist country since Sangamitta came to SL. Tamil are
wasting their energy and time for nothing. Lord Shiva or Buddha is not going to
provide Forex. You have to earn your Forex. Professional institutions should
develop a Code of Conduct and By-Laws for their members for behaviour in
society. Kanagaratnam Sugash had set a bad example to all Attorneys.
Uneducated politicians should shut their mouths and not waste
their energy but join the president for progress.
Sri Lankans should give up their mindset of Low-Country
Sinhalese and Up-country Sinhalese. It's only one Sinhalese. Sri Lankan
Sinhalese. The nationality is Sri Lankan.
Weakness
The Sri Lankan
community's weakness is that everyone wants everything free from the
government. People do not want to pay taxes. Where can the government find
money to provide people with free goods? People also work fewer hours with low
output and exit from the workplace before closing time. Most of the
microenterprises were informal and is not registered with the government.
i.
Most of the uneducated Sri Lankan Diaspora from
the Southern sector complain as follows: “You know Ranil is not doing
anything No!”. These questions come from the mouths of Southern Sri Lankan
Coolies abroad with no understanding of economics. My question from them was: “OK, what is Ranil
not doing and what do you want Ranil to do?” How was SL in 2019 and how is it
now? 22 million people and the GOSL parliament should corporate with the
President to bring up the Sri Lankan economy, not just one person. They have no
answers. They show a blank face. These foolish questions come from the mouths
of Coolie diaspora, and it passes from mouth to mouth.
ii.
People should know about economics, accounting, politics,
and technology to analyse.
iii.
What happens now is that every politician wants
to blame the President due to power hunger.
iv.
Most people now know that Ranil is a capable
person/politician and an economist to keep SL moving.
Threats
i.
Threats come from foolish politicians who
have avidity for power and have no knowledge of how to boost the economy.
ii.
Tamil politicians have a recorded
version, to have the Provincial Council elections. They have no understanding
of the advantages and disadvantages of PCs. The question is: Will productivity,
export, Forex, and economy improve when the PCs start to operate? The
experience is between 2013 to 2019.
iii.
Tamils do not understand that the PCs
will harm the economy, proliferating bribery, and corruption more than 55+
times.
iv.
Different sectors claim different demands
which can deteriorate the economy. Provincial Council governance is a waste for
SL now due to the economic condition.
v.
Different politicians want luxury
imports, with no knowledge of how and where to get the Forex.
vi.
After 75 years of independence, we could
assess how our country's economy has deteriorated.
Opportunities
i.
The Southern sector is a breathtaking,
astonishing land for agrarian productivity. People should focus on agrarian
services in the southern sector and North Central Province. The Department of
Agriculture should operate as an asset to provide advice and the infrastructure
for production, like channel maintenance, gate maintenance etc. The DOA could
provide leaflets to the community centres. Ministers shall not interfere with
imports of Fertilisers. There are several rivers in SL.
ii.
People shall develop skills. Multiskilling may
not be required with low in-house knowledge.
iii.
The government shall not get involved with
Geopolitics.
Solutions
If a person wants to complain,
then he/she shall submit a memorandum to his political representative or a
group of people to the minister as follows:
·
Identify a problem.
·
Describe the problem.
·
Describe how it affects the economy and the
populace.
·
Describe the Root Cause of the Problem.
·
If possible, recommend a solution/solutions.
·
If there are several problems, then prioritise
the solutions.
Imports
·
Prioritise items/equipment on imports.
·
Prioritise projects as per demand.
Since 1948:
1949 -Tamils wanted Federalism
Then Thamil Eelam
Now PC elections.
Selvam Adaikkalanathan is a bluffer moving on simple harmonic motion.
He knows that he is leading a mass of uneducated people and fooled the people
with Thamil Eelam in the past, and now embarked on PC elections. How has he
contributed to the economy and technology of SL?
It appears that Sri Lankan Tamils and the politicians have decided to
destroy Sri Lanka through their diaspora organisations, and they are working
with their detrimental culprit philosophy. Do not they know the real situation
in SL? Do not they know how the political system should be in SL? Do not know
how to live cohesively. Does not their foolish brain understand what they are
doing (harm) to SL?
Let them not get involved in
Geopolitics.
