IMF has predicted Sri Lanka would remain world’s second best economy after China – Minister Basil
Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa yesterday briefed the media on the achievement made by the Economic Development Ministry during the previous year and the program for 2012. Finance and Planning Ministry Secretary Dr P B Jayasundera was also present.
Secretary Dr. P.B Jayasundara, Media Ministry Secretary W.B Ganegala, Economic Development Ministry Additional Secretaries Nihal Somaweera and R.R.A.K. Ranawaka, Director General (Communication and Development ) Professor Sunanda Maddumabandara and Director General of Government Information Department Prof. Ariyaratne Athugala were present.
Minister of Economic Development, Basil Rajapaksa at this media briefing said that an IMF study had predicted that Sri Lanka would remain as the second best performing economy in the world next year, after China.
The minister said that war-torn countries such as Vietnam, Germany, Japan and Korea had taken many years to return to normalcy while Sri Lanka,just two years after the war, was able to be among the top four economies in the world with an economic growth rate of around 8.3 percent.
He further said that last budget provided so many incentives for investors to start businesses in cement, steel, iron, manufacture of drugs and other similar ventures in order to bridge the export and import gap which is in existence due to dependency on essential items that could be manufactured in Sri Lanka.
Due to global recession investors were prompted to save money last year and this year they are likely to invest and this would open opportunities to Sri Lanka.
The Minister added that the government had decided to increase the number of home economic units for each Grama Niladhari division from 15 to 25 in 2012.
Addressing the media, Secretary to the Treasury Dr P B Jayasundera said that the country is on the right economic path and this was the reason for global giants like Holcim, Nestle, Shangri-La, Dialog Axiata to reinvest in Sri Lanka.
Source: Government News Portal
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its really great news for every sri lankans,we going to have modern developtment country forward in future.We should developt our main road system much coming years,specially train road system still old times periouds that we need to developt much.
It is heartnening to see the outcomes of the brilliant brains at work in the Economic Affairs Ministry. Basil rajapaksa deserves an elevation, likely portfolios being Foreign Affairs or even the prime Ministership.
Basil liaised effectively with Mafia Power Lords in India at the peak of the war, travelling incessantly to New Delhi to assist in building relationships with the top brass in India.
His services will be valuable in dealing with issues at the forthcoming UNHRC sessions in Feb 12.
Dear Manimuthu,
Is it true that reproductory organs of men living in Iceland are frozen all the time and human reproduction is achieved through artificial insemination?
PS,
Your querry smacks of lewd,lurid and and of low mentality.Manimuthu though living in far away Iceland is very much interested in the development projects of his motherland.Patriotic sentiments do not deserve such baseless and self revealing infirmities.Earlier Manimuthu has disclosed to me over this blog that he is father of two and expecting his third fairly soon.Please remember even in the tropics there are …..women resorting to help from their neighbours for their procreationary inclinations.These things are not discussed in an open forum like this.Please be polite.
Mr:AUJ
Please let them talk,an Srilanka is a democrat country peoples has to right to say their opinion.I always wish whatever they should talk but not should have any violation,we enough our country war more then 30 years,now the times rebuild our country economics and other main developtments.
Anyway we lost our country most important two persons those are lates Mr:Gamini disanayake and Lalith athulathmudali this two persons if we had loss now srilanka situation are differents.
I urge Mr Manimuttu to live happily ever after in Iceland with frozen genitalia and leave us, patriotic Sri Lankans, in peace, to struggle for our daily teabag that is shared amongst the family whilst VIP’s whizz along the new speedways in bullet proof BMW’s.
Mr:Pradeep Samarakoon
Please take it eassy,if your well educated person never will be get nurvase.I agree with you that we srilankan has different different kind of opinion each others by the way we should solve our problem eassy and peacefull way.Look here europe basic example they also has very different opinion each others some times but after their duity there good friends and they love each others much,I can see this example almost everydays my hobbies are floorball hockey and Gym there coming all this peoples and making friends very nicely.
We srilankan make big mistake invidually attack each others,that should change in future otherwise our coming generation face big problem.We should love our country and we should coperate together every developtment moments.
An srilanka always my hearts,the country never likes other really that true!I have met and traveled many many countries but srilankans peoples are so nice and friendly!
Manimuttu,
Living in Iceland is your choice. Living in Sri Lanka and raising my family in the Sri Lankan way despite all the problems and difficulties, is my choice.
I am proud of Sri Lanka and I want my children to be proud Sri Lankans too. I do not want them to be Icelanders with frozen genitals.
Culture is what makes a person. I do not want my children to be influenced by western culture.
So, if you are proud of your country and its culture, pack your bags a catch the next plane. Don’t sit there in Iceland and give lectures to people who are proudly and courageously living in Sri Lanka.
I think it is better to live in a tea estate and be proud of it than to live in that white man’s country and go to their Gym and floorball hockey where they are “nice” to you.
Dear PS,
Manimuttu is living in Iceland by choice, to better his future. He has however been graceful in acknowledging that under Hon President MR, SL is developing fast. I think one day Manimuttu may decide to return to enjoy the warmer climate of SL when he has made a nice packet, to start a new life in a united SL in peace and prosperity.
To Mr.Prädeep Sämäräköön!
Yes i understand what kind of person your,we just talking about country developtment situation your talking out topic.Anyway thanks all last times openly discused many things here,this is my last comments writing here.I don´t want to disturb peoples mind here anymore.
Good luck all of you,if your come to visit iceland sometimes let us know then we will meet and have a tea or i can arrange accommandations what else!
Mäy göd bless my cöuntry änd my peöples töö!
Sad to see Mr Manimuttu’s quick retreat.
Mr Manimuttu, if you like to live in Iceland, I respect your rights and wishes to do so. Life in Sri Lanka is a terrible struggle for 99.99% of the people. To get a roof over your head and get some nutritious food and a decent education, the men and women who lead a family have to work very, very hard. Things are so expensive; entertainment and sport are luxuries; books are beyond reach. Corruption is rampant and despite the end of the “war” almost 3 years ago, security is not available. Law and order have completely failed. The only things we see are monuments being built with foreign loans. The economy is on the verge of collapse; lying and cheating are the order of the day; opportunities are shrinking; the rich are astronomically rich and the poor are astronomically poor. The leaders are “deaf and dumb and blind” towards the plight of the people. All they are worried about are the monuments that are built, the bullet proof BMW’s they drive, the palaces they construct for themselves on stolen land with stolen money and the Bell helicopters to visit holy places.
Despite all this, I wish to live here and want my children to experience life amidst a Sri Lankan culture. That is my choice. When I wake up every morning at 4AM, I raise my clasped hands to the heaven and thank the almighty for the wonderful life I have.
May God bless you.
Dear Pradeep,
Your blog 14 is a deeply emotional and accurate picture of life in Sri Lanka. Congratulations. I had hopes in the rebel JVP for social and economic change. But recent actions and pronouncements dissapoint me. Hope Kumara Mahattaya doesn’t let himself be dragged into a morass by petty polical motives.
PS has drawn a completely distorted picture of life in SL. It is his distorted perception.
I would like him to go and live in India among the millions of people who live below the poverty line, that is about 300 million. It is an outrage, while a 5% live in extreme wealth, quite oblivious and uncaring to the degredation, misery and utter poverty of their fellow citizens! Many poor people in India drink illicit brew and take drugs to forget their misery. They die young.
Would PS rather live in war-torn countries like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Libya, Nigeria, Sudan, Somalia, Eritrea etc? Would PS prefer to live in utter poverty on a vast scale, in several South American countries. Even in USA, 30% live below the poverty line. In EU countries, where they are struggling in economic doldrums, life is a bitch. In the Eastern European countries life is totally wretched for the masses. Perhaps he would prefer to live in North Korea, under dictatorship, in utter poverty for the masses.
PS and his ilk, like the other man MP who supports him, do not realise how fortunate they are to have a President who has utterly defeated the terrible scourge/evil of LTTE and is re-building our country from scratch. He and his ilk are utterly ungrateful! If they do not like it here let them migrate to those countries I mentioned above. The nearest neighbour is India. Migrate to Tamil Nadu, perhaps. We do not want these rabid unpatriotic elements in SL. Fortunately they are few in number. If JVP and JAM try to rise up in revolution again we will wipe the floor with them anarchists. Good riddance! They are destructive vermin.
SL, UNDER HON PRESIDENT IS WINNING THE BATTLE FOR ECONOMIC RECOVERY. LET US ALL BACK HIM WHOLEHEARTEDLY, AS PATRIOTS!
These people who do not appreciate how fortunate they are in SL under Hon MR, and moan always, are good-for-nothing pariahs! I would rather they be all deported to one of these war-torn countries, Afghanistan perhaps or even North Korea! Good riddance!
Dear Manimuthu,
I feel extremely sad to see you fade away so soon due solely to the bickerings of a perevert who cannot understand or tolerate a descent contribution from a very amiable person living in a country like Iceland.Unfortunately it is this type of intolerables that go to make the Opposition in our country.They cannot see and feel the difference we are enjoying under MR.They are so blind and dumb so as not to see the fantastic developments taking place all around the country-from Dondra to Point Pedro and from Colombo to Batticoloa.We see all smiliong faces all round and the tourists gather in large numbers ,a sure sign that country is on good footing.If 99.99% of the people are living in abject poverty,how come that MR and his party commands an enviable majority of over 60% at all, I repeat at all the elections held during his regime?
Dear Mani, I may not hear from you again but let me clear my conscience that makes me feel I am the one who dragged you to disclose your place of residence etc.This pervert picked them up and started insulting you in his chiocest obsceneties. Iam sorry Dear Mani, you did no wrong but to send good wishes for a developed country from your place of abode. Bye , Mani. Forget our country is full of snakes and vipers.