Introduction In any country sale of strategic assets and getting foreign investments are sensitive subject. In Sri Lanka its importance is magnified by its strategic location and the power plays between India, US and China. Bringing such international investment strategies has almost always have helped the governments to lose elections. Can we solve this issue…… Continue reading Can government do the right thing and win the election too?
Author: aakalpa
අධ්‍යාපන ක්‍රමය කොහොම වෙනස් විය යුතුද?
ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ අධ්‍යාපන ක්‍රමය නව ලෝකයට ගැලපෙන ආකරයා වෙනස් විය යුතු බව මේ පිළිබඳව උනන්දුවක් දක්වන විවිද පුද්ගලයන් අවිවාදයෙන් පිළිගන්න කරුණකි. නමුත් එය මොන ආකාරයෙන් වෙනස් විය යුතුද කියන කරුණ පිළිබඳව විවිද අදහස් පවතියි. මේ ලිපිය ලිය ඇත්තෙම් ලංකාවේ අධ්‍යාපන ක්‍රමය කෙලෙසක වෙනස් විය යුතුද කියන කරුණ පිළිබඳව මගේ අදහසයි. මූලික අවශ්‍යතා පුද්ගලික අධ්‍යාපනය නියාමනය කිරීම අධ්‍යාපනයේ ආගමික, වාර්ගික, සහ ලිංග බේදය ඉවත්…… Continue reading අධ්‍යාපන ක්‍රමය කොහොම වෙනස් විය යුතුද?
Devanis Tree
In Feb 2021, an incident that was instigated by a forest officer trying to protect a Crudia Zeylanica plant thats blocking highway development project has created much public debate and outcry. Is Mrs. Devani Right or Wrong? is there any other tree besides these? About a million posts have been written about this issue. Everyone…… Continue reading Devanis Tree
NPPP -2017-2050 why?
Yahapalana government has developed the National Physical Planing Policy 2017/2050 as the direction to develop physical infrastructure in Sri Lanka.
This article is discussing why we should rethink that policy and focus on developing guidelines and policy direction than focusing on developing prescriptions
Does MPs in Sri Lankan parliament represent you (the people)?
For all theoretical and political rhetoric our MPs call them selves the “Peoples Representatives”. Are they really representing you? I thought to dig deep into the structural and the political reality of this statement Its simple enough idea, you vote in a parliamentary election to select a person to represent you in the parliament. So…… Continue reading Does MPs in Sri Lankan parliament represent you (the people)?
Whats really wrong in the Sri Lankan Constitution?
“In this article I am trying to understand the basic principles of power sharing within the governments and why Sri Lankan System is failing” Background: Separation of Powers Concept of the three separated branches of the government was tried and tested for over thousands of years. The first most successful implementation of such in recorded…… Continue reading Whats really wrong in the Sri Lankan Constitution?
Proposed list of ministries
In a recent post I have suggested that Sri Lanka should reform how the ministries operate in here. In that post I have suggested that the number of ministries and the subject matters under the ministry would have to be fixed within the constitution. Why we need to fix the list of ministries This is…… Continue reading Proposed list of ministries
The Chief Executive of Sri Lanka
As any organisation needs a strong chief executive to drive the organisation to success, a nation also needs to have a strong chief executive that will drive the nation towards its full potential. This article document my thoughts on how the executive branch of Sri Lanka must be organised Managing the nation with a powerful…… Continue reading The Chief Executive of Sri Lanka
Powerful executive, chained by the parliament
Proposal for Constitutional reforms in Sri Lanka This is a proposal for the basic structure on how the peoples power can be franchised to various institutions. We believe that Sri Lanka should drive towards a full executive presidency system with clear and definite segregation of powers The Executive Branch Our proposal is for a governance…… Continue reading Powerful executive, chained by the parliament