Hats off to Gotta....!

Although I'm not a loyalist or a fun of Rajapaksas...but when it comes to development & specially the development of city of Colombo ...I , without any hesitation praise Mr. Deleted Rajapaksafor his great effort & work.... Cheers man you did a great job......!

Today the Singaporeans are talking becoming a Colombo again after 1956 ....WOW



TODAY
Keep Singapore clean like Colombo
http://www.todayonline.com/Search?Clean+city+or+cleaned+city


http://www.adaderana.lk/news.php?nid=19781


[members sorry to post a non CSE related topic , but guess posting here will give due respect to Mr. Deleted...than posting this on any other section...]

We should appreciate his effort. But still i'm not happy with our general public. They dont knowhow to dispose litter. We should start fine for littering.

stil lot more development is needed from all the money they make from us the public. The living standards are still very low.

ණය අරන් තණකොළ වවන්නේ අපි විතරේ මේ ලෝකේ

Kollane mekata kiyanne " Udin ope yatin hape"

For many years, we had a flower exhibition cum sales stalls at Viharamahadevi park. deleted ask them to shift it to Battaramulla. As they changed the venue to a bare land in front of Waters Edge everybody were scolding him.

After the remarkable creation of Diyatha Uyana by deleted's army all are praising him. Sales are rising and people are learning to enjoy good facilities.

Images:









You get his name as "Deleted" here. I don't think his name can be deleted from our memory or from the history of our nation.

for the people who are living outside Sri lanka :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PZGVITQnvd8#!

Thanks Chinwi. Even though I live here, I didn't see it before. Must go there one day.

Sorry, I forgot to Thank RIO for sharing the original news.

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Yesterday, there was a large protest against a film in Colombo by Muslim people. Placards, burnt flags , puppets , water cans were all over the Galle Road in Kollupity area.
When they finish the rally a group of nice people - who participated in the protest- collected all the debris into bags and transported them to proper places making the city cleaner again.
That was a very commendable act and let's hope others will follow this example. I thank "Derana TV" morning show for highlighting this.

As RIO... I am also not a loyalist or a fan of Rajapaksas..... But I really appreciate only this town planing things...

K.Haputantri wrote:Thanks Chinwi. Even though I live here, I didn't see it before. Must go there one day.

Hapu...don't forget to take few hours to walk through the newly renovated Independence Square & Old Race course grounds, also just drop at old army hospital for a refreshment at just in front of the WTC Colombo...

Yes this is great.. it is more better if they can go for at least Public private partnership to reduce burden on government expenditure

Money used for these projects are not from Rajpaksha family money. they are public money or borrowed money for which whole public have to pay interests.. There are many other things should be prioritized before doing wasteful projects such as Hambantota harbour, Sourthen highway, Mihin Air, hotel projects in Colombo etc..

for rajapaksha family development means buildings and high ways because no one in their family have proper educational qualifications to realize the development does not mean larger buildings, highways on behalf of public money.

comparing Singapore with Sri Lanka is one of the most stupid thing you can do as Singapore development does not mean just investing on buildings and highways . It is worth to compare the profiles of Singapore cabinet ministers with Sri Lankan cabinet ministers.
http://www.cabinet.gov.sg/content/cabinet/appointments.html

econ wrote:Money used for these projects are not from Rajpaksha family money. they are public money or borrowed money for which whole public have to pay interests.. There are many other things should be prioritized before doing wasteful projects such as Hambantota harbour, Sourthen highway, Mihin Air, hotel projects in Colombo etc..
for rajapaksha family development means buildings and high ways because no one in their family have proper educational qualifications to realize the development does not mean larger buildings, highways on behalf of public money.
comparing Singapore with Sri Lanka is one of the most stupid thing you can do as Singapore development does not mean just investing on buildings and highways . It is worth to compare the profiles of Singapore cabinet ministers with Sri Lankan cabinet ministers.
http://www.cabinet.gov.sg/content/cabinet/appointments.html

Well Said Sir.
Fools only look at the tip of the finger when the MOON being shown to them.

වැඩි පොලියට ලෝකෙන් තව ණය අරන් තව ටිකක් තණකොළ වගා කලට කමක් නැහැ වගේ මොකද වැඩි දෙනෙක්ගේ කෑම ප්‍රශ්නේ හරි විසදේනේ !

econ wrote:Money used for these projects are not from Rajpaksha family money. they are public money or borrowed money for which whole public have to pay interests.. There are many other things should be prioritized before doing wasteful projects such as Hambantota harbour, Sourthen highway, Mihin Air, hotel projects in Colombo etc..

for rajapaksha family development means buildings and high ways because no one in their family have proper educational qualifications to realize the development does not mean larger buildings, highways on behalf of public money.

comparing Singapore with Sri Lanka is one of the most stupid thing you can do as Singapore development does not mean just investing on buildings and highways . It is worth to compare the profiles of Singapore cabinet ministers with Sri Lankan cabinet ministers.
http://www.cabinet.gov.sg/content/cabinet/appointments.html

Can you pls explain the Educational & other things you expect that Govt. should concentrate other than building & Developing Infrastructure such as Faster Road access, Modern & strategically located Ports..etc etc....
Yes not only in SRI LANKA even in USA or UK all the infrastructure development take place by utilizing Govt revenue or by way of Grants & Loans....What made you think OBAMA spends his family wealth for USA development work...or Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth is giving her wealth for development work in the UK...????

leave Singapore for a while & focus UAE....do you believe the Great rulers of the UAE did focus the other arias before involving into building the High rise buildings & speedy & accessible roads, Modern Ari Traffic Facilities, State of the Art Ports...etc etc.....the answer is a big ..NO..they first did developed those infrastructures & then gained the attention of the rest of the world to UAE, where many educated & wealthy people around the world moved to UAE for their business and that resulted the GOVT of UAE earn more revenues & also more professionals into UAE which in return gave their own people to grab the knowledge & know how from those professionals..there after the Rulers of UAE were focusing to Educate their own people & go ahead with other social development, having had enough expatriate professionals & sufficient revenues to spend for that kind of development...!
Now after few decades...the UAE Natives are more professional & well educated ..they have taken the lead role in Business, ahead of the foreigners who dominated the UEA economy in early 70s....

I do not agree 100% with the way, how some of Present Development projects are handled, but we should appreciate the hard work Done than just blaming for what have not been done...

RIO wrote:I do not agree 100% with the way, how some of Present Development projects are handled, but we should appreciate the hard work Done than just blaming for what have not been done...

I do agree with you.Some people live in a dreamy world with perfect rulers and governers.They do not see what is practically heppening and they comment to show that they are very smart.Best example I can give is marxist who dreams of labourorers ruling world.

The otherones are real hypocrites and they cries about a thing but they are also doing the samething.It is simply like americans shouting about human rights.Actually now there is a new saying "American kaarayo maanawa himikam gana kathaa kalaa wagei"

ඇමෙරිකාව මානව හිමිකම් ගැන කතා කලා වගේ

I think this parliament road decorations are costing a little too much than what I think "how long the constructions would last?" factor. If they're built to last like the British time constructions the no problem otherwise they are built like Hambantota stadium which are built to last only sports season, then they're burning debt money.

I think for the foreseeable future, as far as I can see, if there's a human who can pull this country up, this is the one. He was behind in the shadows in most of the things that were done correct including the biggest one. Unfortunately he's not the leader.

Kithsiri wrote:වැඩි පොලියට ලෝකෙන් තව ණය අරන් තව ටිකක් තණකොළ වගා කලට කමක් නැහැ වගේ මොකද වැඩි දෙනෙක්ගේ කෑම ප්‍රශ්නේ හරි විසදේනේ !

Excellent

econ wrote:Money used for these projects are not from Rajpaksha family money. they are public money or borrowed money for which whole public have to pay interests.. There are many other things should be prioritized before doing wasteful projects such as Hambantota harbour, Sourthen highway, Mihin Air, hotel projects in Colombo etc..

for rajapaksha family development means buildings and high ways because no one in their family have proper educational qualifications to realize the development does not mean larger buildings, highways on behalf of public money.

comparing Singapore with Sri Lanka is one of the most stupid thing you can do as Singapore development does not mean just investing on buildings and highways . It is worth to compare the profiles of Singapore cabinet ministers with Sri Lankan cabinet ministers.
http://www.cabinet.gov.sg/content/cabinet/appointments.html

Hats off to econ......
well said sir.
පාරවල් කාපට් කිරීම, හයිවේ හදන්න, වරායවල් හදන්න රටක සංවර්ධනයේදී වැදගත් වුවද ශ්‍රී ලන්කව්ව් මුලික පහසුකම් වන අධ්‍යාපනය, සෞඛ්‍ය යන ක්ෂේත්‍ර වල අඩුපාඩුකම් විශාල ප්‍රමාණයක් තිබෙන බව ඕනෑම අයෙකු දන්නා දෙයකි. විශේෂයෙන් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ දේශපාලකයන් පාරවල් කාපට් කිරීම වැනි යටිතල පහසුකම් වලට යොමු වන්නේ එමගින් ඔවුන්ට පහසුවෙන් වංචා කල හැකි නිසාවෙනි. මෙයට ඕනෑතරම් උදාහරණ පසුගිය කාලෙ දක්නට ලැබුණි. කිලෝමීටර් කිහිපයක් කාපට් කිරීමට කෝටි ගණනක් වැය කිරීම දක්නට ලැබේ. මෙම සියලු සංවර්ධනයන් ණය වල පිහිටෙනි. 1948 සිට 2005 දක්වා ලබාගත් ණය මෙන් දෙගුණයක් 2005 සිට අද දක්වා ලබා ගෙන තිබේ. මෙම ණය ගෙවිය යුත්තේ මහජනතාවයි. ණය ගෙවීමට නිසි සැලසුම් නොමැත. නැවත ණය ගෙන පැරණි ණය පියවා දමයි. මෙවැනි තණකොළ උයන් රට පුර ඇති අක්ලද කමක් නැත.( බොහෝදෙනෙක් බත් කන හරක් බැවින්.) බොරු ප්‍රදර්ශනාත්මක සංවර්ධනයෙන් වැඩක් නැත. කොතරම් ණය ගත්තද නිසි පරිදි සැලසුම් සහගතව සංවර්දනයට යොමු කරන්නේ නම් එය වැදගත් වේ.

RIO wrote:

econ wrote:Money used for these projects are not from Rajpaksha family money. they are public money or borrowed money for which whole public have to pay interests.. There are many other things should be prioritized before doing wasteful projects such as Hambantota harbour, Sourthen highway, Mihin Air, hotel projects in Colombo etc..

for rajapaksha family development means buildings and high ways because no one in their family have proper educational qualifications to realize the development does not mean larger buildings, highways on behalf of public money.

comparing Singapore with Sri Lanka is one of the most stupid thing you can do as Singapore development does not mean just investing on buildings and highways . It is worth to compare the profiles of Singapore cabinet ministers with Sri Lankan cabinet ministers.
http://www.cabinet.gov.sg/content/cabinet/appointments.html

Can you pls explain the Educational & other things you expect that Govt. should concentrate other than building & Developing Infrastructure such as Faster Road access, Modern & strategically located Ports..etc etc....
Yes not only in SRI LANKA even in USA or UK all the infrastructure development take place by utilizing Govt revenue or by way of Grants & Loans....What made you think OBAMA spends his family wealth for USA development work...or Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth is giving her wealth for development work in the UK...????

leave Singapore for a while & focus UAE....do you believe the Great rulers of the UAE did focus the other arias before involving into building the High rise buildings & speedy & accessible roads, Modern Ari Traffic Facilities, State of the Art Ports...etc etc.....the answer is a big ..NO..they first did developed those infrastructures & then gained the attention of the rest of the world to UAE, where many educated & wealthy people around the world moved to UAE for their business and that resulted the GOVT of UAE earn more revenues & also more professionals into UAE which in return gave their own people to grab the knowledge & know how from those professionals..there after the Rulers of UAE were focusing to Educate their own people & go ahead with other social development, having had enough expatriate professionals & sufficient revenues to spend for that kind of development...!
Now after few decades...the UAE Natives are more professional & well educated ..they have taken the lead role in Business, ahead of the foreigners who dominated the UEA economy in early 70s....

I do not agree 100% with the way, how some of Present Development projects are handled, but we should appreciate the hard work Done than just blaming for what have not been done...

So you hope after building skycrappers people from all over the world will come to Sri Lanka to work here because huge buildings are situated here. you expect professionals from all over the world will come to Sri Lanka while many professionals such as medical doctors, University professors etc are protesting to increase their salaries or leaving Sri Lanka for better opportunities. Can you compare OIL wealth UAE infrastructure investments with mainly Chinese loan/grant based Sri Lankan infrastructure investments...

@ RIO,

You tried to tell us a big story by opening this topic.

Sri Lankans are greedy people. Naturally we first rush for the food in any function, workshop, wedding, AGM than looking into the real purpose.

So do not blame us for enjoying "Thanakola" here.

We are also very famous for talking about what we do not know.
At least we should gather info about the other countries , how they get loans and do massive infrastructure development with long term targets and how international private parties come in and establish to carryout the secondary stages.

BTW, I think we do not need to emphasize we are not fans of MR or anybody. We talk what we believe.
I know most of the people think Im a supporter of this Govt. Personally I have had good connection with the opposition (not JVP) for many decades than the bgrs in power.

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About the first topic:
ප.ලි.
මම මුලින්ම සිංගප්පුරු ගිය වෙලේ මටත් මේ වගේ දෙයක් හිතුන. ඔය කියන තරම් අමුතු පිරිසිදු බවක් නැහැනේ. ඇත්තටම අද කොළඹ ඊට වඩා පිරිසිදුයි.

රටවල් කිහිපයක හරි තනියම ඇවිද්දට පස්සේ තමයි මගෙත් තිබුන සමහර ගොන් අදහස් වැරදි කියල තේරුනේ.
දැන් තණකොළ දැක්කට කටට කෙල උනන්නේ නැත්තේ ඒකයි.
එතකොට තමයි තණ පිට්ටනියට එහා වැදගත් යමක් තියෙන බව පෙන්නේ.

@econ,

for your info only.

Dubai , the famous place of UAE / Middle East for huge infra development has no oil reserve with them.

They have no oil, no water, no human for work ( 80 % are expatriate workers) , no greenery, no waterfalls, no fresh water reservoirs, no historical monuments except few earthen buildings , no fertile lands - grow only dates, all the vegetables, rice , yams, flowers etc are imported .

still they get flow of tourists, investors, developers many times than us.

Chinwi wrote:දැන් තණකොළ දැක්කට කටට කෙල උනන්නේ නැත්තේ ඒකයි.
එතකොට තමයි තණ පිට්ටනියට එහා වැදගත් යමක් තියෙන බව පෙන්නේ

Well Said...!!!!.....Hats off for chinwi

I agree with most what you said about DUBAI. But Sri Lanka still have much to develop with transparency, accountability, justice, honesty, recognition to the right people, reduce wastefulness etc etc. Infrastructure is a key for development. But physical developments are not enough. There should to attempts made for freer environment for people and investment backuped up by fairness.


There is always 2 sides to this story, I however do recognize certain things the GOvn did have to be acknowledged and admired. They still have a long way to go to win admiration and trust of more local and foreigners.

Chinwi wrote:@econ,

for your info only.

Dubai , the famous place of UAE / Middle East for huge infra development has no oil reserve with them.

They have no oil, no water, no human for work ( 80 % are expatriate workers) , no greenery, no waterfalls, no fresh water reservoirs, no historical monuments except few earthen buildings , no fertile lands - grow only dates, all the vegetables, rice , yams, flowers etc are imported .

still they get flow of tourists, investors, developers many times than us.