WHY? WHY?
What does wasting mean? Undernourished/ Malnourished
Please read the link below in full in yesterday’s Daily
Mirror Newspaper, to appreciate and understand the true extent of Child
Malnourishment in Sri Lanka today. While politicians are fighting each other
and jockeying for position, our kids are starving, due in most part to their
policies.
Shame Shame Shame, for the most populous and supposedly the
most prosperous district, in 10 years to increase malnourishment from 11% to
16%.
We are regressing as a Nation in indicators. If Gampaha cannot
manage this issue who else can.
So why? Well let’s start with common sense and address this problem
rationally.
Its public servants
who don’t do what they have been tasked with – STUPID!
Sri Lanka has a very comprehensive system of Public Servants
to cover every eventuality. Each of the 335 Divisional Secretariats in the
Country has Officers entrusted to all areas that affect the people who live in
their catchment areas. So there is an officer ONLY responsible for Children’s
Welfare, and there are 33 other positions, like Youth Affairs, Women, Disaster,
Agriculture, Health and so on and so forth!
In addition to that each GN division (approximately 100 homes)
has a Grama Niladari who is the State Representative who should know about
every household, and their economic status and needs. On top of this each GN
division also has a Samurdi Niyamaka, whose task is to ensure that the needy receive
the basic welfare that the state provides and in entitled to any program that
helps them obtain their basic needs.
So “WHAT THE HELL
ARE THEY DOING?”
Well they are obviously doing less now than they did in 2006.
So what has changed? Well under the previous administration, jobs were given to
Samurdi Niyamakas based on POLITICAL PATRONAGE. Obviously during this period
the people who are tasked with ensuring that people don’t go hungry, are in
fact only stuffing their stomachs and wallets, by ensuring welfare only goes to
their friends who don’t need it and not to the poor who need it. Have you now
heard this story before.
Well now you have heard the consequence of political
patronage – STARVATION OF OUR KIDS – OUR FUTURE
WHAT IS THE
YAHAPALANAYA GOVERNMENT DOING ABOUT THIS?
Surely, they could have fired all the Samurdi Niyamakas
saying that they have failed in their tasks of ensuring that the needy are
assisted.
We know that Gampaha was the worst in stuffing the Public
Sector with jobs for the boys, and don’t we know Basil Rajapakse was at the
forefront of this exercise.
So why don’t we directly blame Basil Rajapakse for
malnutrition as we have the facts to hand?
Because we have people in power who don’t understand what
their job specification is and how they can correct the ills of society for which
they have been elected.
I am really ashamed about this fact of malnutrition as it is
simply unforgivable, and no one seems to have raised this issue before and done
something about it.
Why do we send people to Diyawanna Oya Parliament? To swim in
the Oya or to work for the welfare of the people they represent? Well on the second
point they have not done their basics.
Is the Prime Minister even aware of this? Is the Child
Affairs Minister aware of this? Has she given this information to the PM? We
waste our time chasing away the State Minister of Child Affairs for wanting the
LTTE back, but we say nothing about the fact that we are killing our children with
increasing frequency. What kind of priorities are they?
Is mass killing of children less important to put in the news
than a woman wishing the return of the LTTE?
GET YOUR PRIORITIES RIGHT FIRST
4 comments:
This neatly explains why you have insisted that the Public Sector be sent back to school to learn what their job really is. No one seems to be doing their jobs in the public sector. They just spend their time travelling to work and going home and while in the office, just drink tea and gossip about the political situation hoping MR comes back. Their savior who gave them this great job that pays them Rs50,000 a month, but for which they THINK they don't have to do any work.
The Yahapalanaya Government has been asleep at the wheel failing to point out to the people the basics, and they are wasting time pointing out the debt and interest payments, that common people dont understand.
They understand Starvation - this is dynamite for people with intelligence to use against the past regime, why is that not even hinted at? Because they want to do the same, put people in jobs that don't require work in return!
The whole stinking Public Sector including the leeches in Parliament must be removed to effect the needed change. No other way
Shocking statistics, and it shows the public sector is sleep walking, enjoying their perks. however I wouldn't blame Basil Rajapaksa for something that is going unaddressed today by the present government managers. Take responsibility for what happens under your own watch and either fix it or get fixed by the people!!
Yes, I was merely alluding the new positions created in Public Service during the 2005 to 2015 period, especially the Samurdhi Niyamaka, who is the man on the ground responsible for poverty and malnutrition facts, so someone else can take corrective action.
These positions were created as jobs for the boys and party faithful, and they don't even know their responsibilities. I agree this government has not taken adequate steps to berate these very people to do their job properly or face the firing squad.
Sad that it was better previously, which is a further indication that stuffing people into Government Jobs is counter productive, and this Govt. is making the same mistake creating Sanwardana Niladaris, without a specific and clear role for them again will lead to waste
I sincerely appreciate your comment/observation though
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