Opposition leader Mr Sajith Premadasa said that if we want to get rid of the prejudiced situation from this bankruptcy, we must be diligent and follow the right philosophy and program. Sri Lanka Latest News
The opposition leader pointed out that the focus of exports should be on the manufacturing industries and when implementing the program on a macro level, we should focus on the household-based family units and go for an export promotion process through which we can become a strongman in the export sector.
Likewise, to promote exports, we should think about how to get the necessary capital, how to promote direct foreign investment, and investment comes to a country only if it gets the most benefits from that investment, so today our country competes with India, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Asian countries. Opposition leader Mr. Sajith Premadasa said that we have to think about why the investor should reject these countries and choose our country.
Mr. Sajith Premadasa, the leader of the opposition, said this while participating in the donation of 1,177,000 rupees of 1,177,000 rupees of comfortable classroom equipment and dictionaries under the 352nd phase of the Sakwala Suhuru Classrooms Giving Program at Mahanama Vidyalaya in Gagawatakorale, Kandy. Here the school development account is Rs. Donated an amount of one lakh.
The leader of the opposition said that the rulers should provide all necessary facilities to create an investment-friendly environment to attract investors to our country and we should act in the same way as Prime Minister Modi did to attract investors from China during the coronavirus
‘Bribe’ culture should be abolished
After the investors come to our country, they even have to give bribes to some officials and through those bribes they have to get various permits and because of this many investors leave the country and the reason why they leave the country is that there is no investment-friendly environment in our country and the ease of doing business. The opposition leader also said that since our country is in a weak position in terms of the index, we should resort to an investment-centric growth strategy.
We have become debtors of 100 billion dollars
The opposition leader said that the people of our country are facing many hardships and challenges and when a good citizen achieves successful goals in his personal life, he becomes a high citizen of the society and that having a good citizen is extremely important for the governance and policy-making of a country.
The leader of the opposition said that our country has never been bankrupt in its history, but now it is bankrupt with a debt of more than 100 billion US dollars and each of these citizens is a debtor of 12 lakh rupees.
Under the breath program implemented by the Samagi Jana Balawegaya, medicines and hospital equipment worth 1906 lakh rupees have been given to 63 hospitals, and 89 buses worth 50 lakh rupees have been given to 89 schools under the Sakwala bus program, for which 4342 lakh rupees have been given Sakwala Information Under the technology programme, 352 schools have been provided with comfortable classroom equipment and 3908 lakh rupees have been spent for it.
