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 21^st 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 21^st 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.