The Director General of the Department of Census and
Statistics just penned an article about some fact relating to the 1.1M Public
Sector workers, excluding the Tri Forces Personnel.
Of the 300,000 who commute to their offices in Colombo, he
has not analyzed, because he has not questioned them, on the time they spend
commuting. WE ALL KNOW, when we go into an office, at least half the time, the
official to whom we have to report, is not at his or her desk. Need I say more
on their productivity? They are servants of the people, who they are unable to
serve, due to various barriers, least of which is the time it takes them to
come to work.
No wonder they are resisting thumb print entry, as it would
further prove, that their work day is less than 50% of a private sector worker.
No wonder then that there is such a rush for Public Sector Jobs, when we have
over 1 million vacancies in the Private Sector.
I have made a proposal earlier in my blog, that this lack of
productivity means that their work can effectively be done by less than 50% of
the people. LESS THAN HALF or 150,000. With improving technology, much of the
mundane work they do can easily be done electronically, and by pooling common
resources. So this work they are supposedly carrying out can be done by not
more than 50,000 capable people selected from this number.
I have therefore designed a Capital City, far from Colombo,
where 50,000 workers can work in three towers along with the housing units
where they can live with their families if they so wish or in multiple unit
accommodation where they will be charged less, where they can get to their
desks within 20 minutes of leaving their homes, as they will be taking an
electric train right into the building where they work and just have to take
the elevator to their floor.
If this plan is adopted, this is how they benefit, as their
housing costs living in the Colombo suburbs will be drastically reduced, their
commuter times almost eliminated, their efficiency and job satisfaction will
rise by eons, and they will have more leisure time on their hands as well as
more disposable income in their hands. It will then only be the foolish who
will refuse such an offer.
The stumbling block then is the lack of visionary
leadership in this country to make it happen, and to that end we should look at
changing the way we elect leaders.
5 comments:
Article in July 11 Economy Next saying 65% of state workers have no A levels
So why the hell are they clogging the traffic in Colombo? Let the real workers come to work in the private sector please, and let the state sector work somewhere else. Do they have to come to Colombo?
http://www.economynext.com/Only_35_pct_of_Sri_Lanka_s_public_sector_workers_have_high_school_education-3-11172-1.html
Government offices at Battaramulla must be moved out of their immediately to somewhere like Ampara. The traffic chaos of workers and public all converging in Battaramulla does not allow private sector staff to go to their offices in Colombo.
After all the Private Sector is the engine of growth of this Country and are stuck in traffic instead of driving the engine of growth.
Great Idea get them all out of there as soon as possible as they are a problem not a solution
That is a million hours in commuting each day, at say a minimum of Rs200/hr which is about what they get paid for an hour worked on average is Rs200Million a day loss, we pay for that effectively through our taxes for people to commute.
This is scandalous - move the capital to a dessert right away, today if possible
We must not only fight against the corruption of Politicians we must give equal prominence to fighting for Public Servants who are accountable starting with getting to work on time and having their fingerprint ID in and out times for their pay. Dock their pay if they are 5 minutes or more late to work for a start, then we may teach them how the other half work.
No other way to discipline the indeciplined
wasn't this the original rationale for moving the parliament to Sri Jayawardenapura?
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