it is undisputed that University education in Sri Lanka is available for a very limited number of people. Further Competitive global characteristics cannot be seen in Sri Lanka’s education system. Higher education is simply a matter of luck.

Lack of one mark can ruin one’s dream of becoming a doctor. But the situation in other countries is not like that. They can study in any field of their choice. This is what call ”freedom of education” and  is all about.

But according to the radical political parties including JVP, that system otherwise ”freedom of education” is a very dangerous and destructive thing.

They only want “free education” which means cost of free schooling from year 1 to 13  and a very limited number of people get a free degree from government university.

But this is not something that comes for free, it is something that is maintained by public taxes

Nevertheless They don’t want this system to change. But today, almost every country in the world is moving towards freedom of education, not free education.

That means anyone can get an education in any subject area as their choice. Today, education in Sri Lanka has  seriously collapsed due to not changing it according to the new world trends.

Today, not a single university in Sri Lanka is among the best universities in the world. Even tribal African countries have surpassed Sri Lankan universities.

And most of the products that come out  from the free education system are spoiled.
For example, even though the government spends a lot of money to produce graduates in the field of mathematics and science, No one does a new invention whatsoever.

More ever At least they can’t write a new concept paper at the world index level. And as soon as the economic crisis comes, the first  group who prepared to leave the country is so-called intellectuals that  produced by free education.

Those people are not  a group who think about the country, but who think about their survival.

Further JVP and radical parties not allow to change our education system suits with new world.

2024 is an election year. But it is not easy to predict the victory of any party. The reason is that the economic crisis mysteriously  controlling  the political behavior of the people. Today many people are hiding their political caste. Only JVP members are  showing its political caste.

JVP makes a serious criticism of the parties those have ruled the country so far. The main reason JVP’s to become so  popular is severe  criticism that put place  on others, and not because they have done  anything for the country.

It is a simple logic that  tax paying ordinary citizens are not responsible for the Sri Lanka’s economic crisis but rulers dose . And the economic crisis is something that is painfully feel by the every citizen.

Hence , JVP’s speeches such as  “That person is a thief , This person is a thief ”are bringing  joy to common people who are frustrated with the economic crisis .

People like to share FB posts made by JVP members accusing politicians. This situation affects the popularity of JVP in social networks.

It is true that people are disappointed with the parties that ruled the country for 75 years. It is true that,  in the context of national leader there is a vacuum.

It is also true that Anura Kumara is popular just because describing issues and criticizing others. But could that be enough of a reason to give royal power to Anura Kumara?

A similar political situation prevailed in Srilanka  during the last kingdom of Kandy . At that time, people were disappointed with the royal bloodline  as well as second in line . There was a big power struggle in the state. The anarchy was painful for the people.

Because of this, there was a strong demand for an alternative leader. At that time, a man named Andare became popular throughout the country for his criticism on  the king. People gathered to hear his stories. People talked from door to door about what he was saying.

No matter how popular he was, the people did not want to make Andare the king. The reason for this is that a matter of statehood needs a validity gained from action. ( Functional legitimacy )

Even though Anura Kumara is popular, people do not consider making him a ruler. The reason is that Anura Kumara is not a person who gained validation through activism, but a person who made speeches and became popular like Andare.

The important factor in governance is not the popularity gained through speeches but the  Functional legitimacy  .

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Today, a child in this country completes school education at the age of 20. Further school does not provide professional knowledge or credential.

School education certificate in Sri Lanka is not sufficient at least  to find a laborer job in the foreign labor market. In other words, education in Sri Lanka has not adjusted in accordance with the  global and economic trends.

The situation in foreign countries is not so. Its children complete their schooling with a degree. Further It is not a useless degree such as arts or commerce in Sri Lanka.

The education system of developed countries gives meaning to the saying, “Every person in this world becomes very smart  at some subject”

That is, their school is an institution notching but  that gives professional knowledge and degree in any field that suits with them.

As such they can enter the labor market by the age of 18 after completing  school  with a basic degree.

Facts being so, As of now the value of a practical education system has been felt by the citizen of Sri Lanka.

Schools in this country should be turned into institutions that provide knowledge and basic  degrees in fields such as IT, automobiles, carpentry, masonry, clothing design, food and beverage , tourism etc.

If i say, 43 years ago Government of this country was prepared  to establish such  education system in Srilanka , you will not believe it. But it is true.

Said proposal was presented to the Parliament as the 1981 Education Reform Bill. But JVP opposed it and showed crocodiles in the tea cup.

The JVP incited school students, university students, parents and clergy against  Education Reform Bill   Due to the so-called public  protests  , the education reform proposal did not move forward .

But today everyone understands the importance of changing the education system. Nevertheless taking 43 years  to understand the importance of the  Education Reform Bill  that was rejected then and requesting action on same is not only an  irony of fate but also severe tragedy

After 43 years, emerging a public demand on Ranil’s Education Reform Act,  which was rejected  by the JVP then, shows the true nature of politics in this country.

However, the narrow politics and the  consensuses stupidly of the people shattered the  dreams of our generation. Today, JVP is silent about the said  national crime that they committed.

JVP supporters claims that they are moving towards victory day by day. Furter  they says even the international community has been surprised on their  success. They described same as the reason, foreign ambassadors to visit Pelawatta JVP hq .

Although the people of Sri Lanka are like  ”Frog in the well”  , the international community is not. They know the  ground reality.

To associates closely with JVP what foreign country firstly considering  is not the JVP’s popularity  in the country, but how far JVP agrees with their geopolitical agenda.

This can be illustrated with a current example. As of now , all the powerful nations of the world are involved in the war in Ukraine. As per reports Hundreds of military officers (retired) of  Sri Lanka  have joined the Ukrainian war.

Sri Lankan troops have joined  with the US-led team and not with the Russian Red Front.

Currently, one ex Srilanakan military officer who was involved in the Ukraine war has died and 6 others are missing. it is worth noting,  military officers of this country fighting  against Russia is a very sensitive  matter , even though the political parties of this country are silent.

Yesterday, a group of Russian top level diplomats came to Sri Lanka to assess  the situation . Nikolai Patrushev, the chief adviser of President Putin’s security affairs, also included the  group. .

The points highlighted by the Russian delegation are as follows

1. During the civil war in this country, Russia has continuously provided military aid to the Sri Lankan army

2. When war crimes charges were brought against Sri Lanka in the UN Human Rights Council, Russia unconditionally stood up for Sri Lanka.

3. American team is the one who raise charge sheet to Sri Lanka on war crimes.  Facts being so the SL military officers  have forgotten their true friend and joined the enemy. It is a treacherous act done by Sri Lankans towards Russia.

4. A LTTE member in Europe has recruited those Sinhala army personnel to join Ukrainian war and  It is a  clear conspiracy to divide Sri Lanka and Russia

5. Srilanakan media exalted the military officer who died in Ukraine to heroism. It was a typical slap on Russia

6. Sri Lanka-Russia relations are currently in crisis.

7. Although Sri Lanka was unthankful to Russia , India was not so. Even after the war started  in Ukraine , Indian forces conducted military exercises with Russian forces.

8. The Indian  security forces did everything possible to prevent Indians to joining the anti Russian forces .  Indian Left parties also actively contributed to it.

9. But the JVP, which represents the Sri Lankan Red fort , stayed as mute spectator.

Anura Kumara who appear as guardian of the leftist parties not only  betrayed Russia also carried out visit to  America

As a policy, the US does not grant visas to radical left-wing leaders. But Anura Kumara got visa.

The JVP who acts as the left-wing symbol of the country and the  officials who do not know the essentials of the national security should held accountable for this crisis.

American ambassador Julie Chang is coming to Pelawatthe Hq not because she is impressed by JVP’s policies but because of the betrayal of policies. Although the true picture  of JVP  is  secret to ordinary people of this country, the international community is Chrystal clear on it .

JVP is not a political party  but  some kind  of terror movement  whose philosophy is deception. Because of this JVP does not have real political  power. The ability to popularize utter lies is the only power that JVP possess  then and now. They do this it in two ways.

1. Creation of boogeyman
2. Cruel criticism

Rohana Wijeweera described the Beruwala Hotel, which was being built at that time, as an American Army base. The Wellawaya  road  which was being built with several lanes, was described  as a  runway that used to land American planes. Wijeweeera  was also strongly opposed to garment factories. He categorized, sewing underwear for western countries  is an obscene act.

The current leader of JVP, Anura Kumara, is a  culprit not second to Wijeweera. Anura Kumara said that there is not enough metal in Sri Lanka to build the port city . He said that because of the highways, dog in one house not able to move  another and  it turns the animals world upside down. He said Uma oya project, split the earth and activates volcanoes.

With social media becoming a major force in manipulating public consciousness, JVP’s tactics have been renewed.

VP has started exaggerating and praising  their own activities. They often organize paid campaigns on social media for same, buying followers from  Chinese  like farms is another strategy .

Promoting party through hired writers is JVP’s another strategy. JVP has planted paid writers in many media institutions  .

The series of articles written in the name of Mr. Shanta Jayaratne in Lanka E-News is one of such . He highlights that JVP has done a revolution in the cooperative societies where the JVP has power.

When reading the article of Shantha Janaratne, those have  brains not feel any achievement of  JVP but reminisce the tragedy describes with the pro verb that  ” At the land of no trees even weeds become trees”  . Some of his recent articles as follows

1.Sri Lanka’s first tea cooperative owned by JVP launches smart tea project , 1500 kilos of tea leaves per acre. -(Lanka E News -2023.Dec.09)

2. A rice mill run by a doctor..! Ready provide rice to the entire province of north-west-  (Lanka e News-2023.Nov.29)

3. A cooperative bank that distributes 70% of the profit to its members – Lanka E News -2023.Dec.05)

4. The new directors of Madirigiriya Co-operative, Spraying  pesticides  with drones  (Lanka E News -2023.Dec.01)

Short and sweet JVP paid writer  trying to say nothing but that JVP can manage  the country as they manage cooperative society .

Further He claims JVP’s revolution in cooperative sector depicts  their political success.

The cooperative movement in Sri Lanka started in 1904. JVP started in 1965.

Currently, there are 305 various service cooperative societies, 368 Co-op City, 28 Mega Co-op City, 1,679 Co-operative Regional and 3,108 Co-operative outlets in Sri Lanka.

But the cooperative institutions that control by  JVP confined 10 to 15 only.  This explains not any achievement but the JVP’s failure in 50 years of politics.

And during the regime of Sirimavo, which is considered as the golden era  of cooperative sector, there were nearly 10,000 cooperative institutions  in the country. In other words, one cooperative outlet  existed in every village.

It is worth noting that . During 88-89, JVP destroyed thousands of cooperative shops for nothing  (burned or looted).

In India and Bangladesh Cooperative sector is massive powerhouse. Amul is a cooperative society that has conquered the world in terms of milk production.

But the co-operative movement in Sri Lanka is in a very sad stage. Scammers have stolen billions of co-operative property by creating fake documents. The cooperative has became business name of less privilege community. JVP is not the savior of cooperative sector but they  too responsible for the disaster.

That is why it says JVP is not a political party  but  some kind  of terror movement  whose philosophy is deception.

Yesterday (December 16), it was reported that the Criminal Investigation Department arrested an executive officer of the Pannala apparel  Company who defrauded more than 18 crores.

This is not the first or last  theft in the private  sector . Such scams happen in every company  including banks, finance, insurance, communication, airlines, construction, etc. in Sri Lanka.

But if the information  gets public, it cause to shatter the  public trust. Hence those incidents keep it under wraps in the private  sector
That is why  those frauds  do not popup  like the frauds of  politicians  or public servants.

It is worthy to note corruption has spread from top to bottom in the private sector. Nevertheless during audit process  frauds committed by minor employees and executives are only able to detect  .That is, corruption and fraud by top management are not revealed. And said  scams are too sophisticated to detect.

From 2012 to 2021 this writer worked with  Business intelligence unit of the Landmark Company owned by India’s leading billionaire Mickey Jagthyani. In 2016, a proposal was made to introduce RFID technology to this company. Said  suggestion was made by one of its CEOs. The cost of the project was USD 26 million.

But the business intelligence unit was of the opinion that the RFID project was not productive and it is nothing but  waste of money . However, regardless of the intelligence  report  project was implemented. After 6 month it was Chrystal clear  that the RFID project was a  severe failure . However, the RFID project could not be abandoned overnight as a huge amount of money had been invested. on it . In the end, the company had to maintain the failed system at additional cost.

Although the RFID investment was a white elephant, a commission of 12% fell into the pocket of the CEO who introduced it  (Rs 1.5 billion is a commission amount) But according to the nature of the transaction, it cannot be proven that the relevant CEO committed a  fraud. Also, the outside world does not know that the RFID project was  unsuccess . This is how the top officials of the private sector cheat.

In the developed countries of the world, there is no place for the wholesaler because the supermarket chain is strong. In developed countries, the manufacturer directly connects with the consumer through the supermarket chain. Because of this, there is less opportunity for intermediate  to exploit thus  Farmers ( Manufacturer ) and consumers benefit from it, but Sri Lanka’s supermarket chain is not like that.

Almost 3 years ago Keel’s company introduced a self-service system called “Scan and go” to its customers . Accordingly  scanning the goods and paying (by card) could be done by the customer himself. The current situation of the self-service system introduced by Keels Company 3 years ago is as follows.

1. Not one in 1000 of Keels customers use this system
2. Developed countries of the world introduced this system almost  25 years ago
3. Today’s Retail Operations are revolves with the RFID next level phase
4. Due to the poor computer literacy in Sri Lanka, Keels  self-service counters have to  staffed with two employees each.
5. Unlike people in developed countries, Sri Lankan people’s mindset  still in the feudal era. They don’t want to do the work themselves, rather than get it done by others
6.  Tragically amid heavy workload underpaid Keels employees have to maintain so-called  self-service system which is utter expensive

Even if the ‘scan and go’ system fails, they have to maintain the failed system at a cost. It is not because of anything, but because of the deals and  fraudulent transactions that  made by corrupt top officials.

And even if the institution is private, the consequences of the thefts that happen there  directly affect  on the public.

However, people in Sri Lanka think and talk in a way  that thieves are only in the parliament. There are three types of thieves in Sri Lanka

1. Label Thieves – Regardless whether they steal  or not  those who made as thieves by the popular wave
2. Typical  Thieves – These are the most common thieves in Sri Lanka who steal as profession but  never caught.
3. Future Thieves – They are the second largest number of thieves in Sri Lanka who wait for an opportunity to steal.

Yesterday By a report The National Alert  said  that it is a good thing that Ravi Karunanayake is working to remove the ban on oil farm cultivation. However, regardless of the point , some people accused Ravi as a bank robber. Any how now  It is  clear that the  most of the people who label others as thieves are actually thieves.

As a nation although Sri Lankans are ahead of the literacy curve in terms of writing and reading, are very backward in terms of wisdom. Thus  that wisdom vacuum  is filled with  hypocrisy and stupidity. That’s why people stood in kilometers long queues to get the so-called corona medicine made by a trickster named Dhammika in Kegalle.

Another time, they promoted  Kuwait Kumari who sang by asshole. While they promote Kuwait Kumari they  criticized Yohani, a super singer who conquered the world.

In 2019, those citizens enthroned Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, who was utmost unfit to rule the Country .After Gotabhaya became the President, he worked like a bull in a China shop.  “Gota” was a rubber seal for smugglers. His stupid decisions bankrupted the country.

Some of Gotabaya’s stupid decisions are as follows

1. Closure of air port During Corona pandemic and subsequent  quarantine scam
2. Ban on  burial Corona dead bodies that shattered the nation harmony
3. Ban on chemical fertilizers
4. Ban on oil palm cultivation

Today we are talking about banning oil palm cultivation.  Palm oil is  an edible vegetable oil that comes from the fruit of oil palm trees .It mainly contains 3 types of fats such as saturated, monounsaturated and polyunsaturated. Since  palm oil contains more unsaturated fat and polyunsaturated fat, it  consider as a heathy product .

in context of  Sri Lanka 80% of edible oil consumption  is palm oil. Coconut oil share is 12%, Globally palm oil consumption  is 62 % .

And most human foods contain palm oil. Mainly  margarine, ice cream, biscuits, processed meat products, chocolate, confectionery, instant noodles, and milk powder contains palm oil. Also, perishable foods such as biscuits and sweets cannot be produced using coconut oil and it is essential to use palm oil.

Sri Lanka is a country that imports palm oil and spends  270 million US dollars  per year. In other words, this  amount is close to the Foreign exchange cost of importing chemical fertilizers per year.

Mainly 2 reasons influenced the  Gotabaya to ban the oil palm cultivation

1. Power of black money  and wrong data that given by the local coconut oil sellers who disguised as patriots

2. Giving a market monopoly to Gota’s  business partner Pyramid Wilma

Nevertheless above 2 points were  hidden . Gota showed the country that the reason for banning oil palm is to encourage local coconut oil production and saving the environment

In Sri Lanka It is practically impossible to use coconut oil as a substitute for palm oil . At present, the average coconut yield in the country is metric ton 0.8 per hectare. In order to replace palm oil with coconut oil, the coconut cultivation area should be increased by five times. But there is no such large amount of land in this country.

Generally  Oil Palm yield is metric ton 4  per hectare.  It is possible to meet the country’s edible oil requirement by oil palm cultivation also  saving millions of dollars  that goes to oversees as well generates thousand of jobs.

Comparative advantage of oil palm cultivation

1. Planting  and maintenance is easy
2. Weed control is not necessary
3. One worker can easily maintain more than an acre of cultivated plot
4. Less pest damage
5. Harvest can start after 4 years and same can be continue  for 20 years.
6. Harvest can be done for whole year
7. As one worker can maintain a large plot of land, their earnings are  high

The ruling party 2014-2019  supported the oil palm cultivation  as they considered the advantages of it . During their rule , 12000 hectares of oil  palms were cultivated. More than 26 billion rupees were invested . Nearly 5000 job opportunities were created. But Gotabaya issued a gazette and banned  oil palm sector by overnight. Gotabaya’s  move was a terror act on  investors. Same was  badly affected the entire investment industry.

It is worthy to note, All the reasons given by Gotabaya to ban  oil palm is bogus and unreasonable.  It is very simmer to  so-called ban  that imposed on the burial of Corona dead bodies .

Gota said that the main aim of impose ban on  oil palm cultivation  is to protect underground water and springs. But All the data and formulas used by Gota to justify the  ban  was point less.

As of now 18% of Malaysia’s land is used for oil palm cultivation . Further it is a crop that has been cultivating since 50 years. But there has no record of groundwater depletion in Malaysia. And the contribution of oil  palm  to the country’s gross national production  is 2.7%. They earn  US $9 billion by  palm oil exporting . That is more than the amount of foreign exchange that Sri Lanka earns from the apparel  and tourism industry. In more  5 lakh Malaysians have got job opportunities in the farm oil industry.

When the so-called professors of Sri Lanka advised  Gotabayata  to ban oil palm  cultivation, India’s scholars advised Narendra Modi to increase  oil palm  cultivation.   Narendra Modi was advised  so by the  Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology  of India and  it  not a group of so-called scholars  like the local cult that advised Gotabaya . It is a fit and proper  institute established by Prime Minister Shri Nehru in 1960 to pursue new knowledge.

THE   Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology  of India advised Modi to increase India’s oil palm  cultivation by 2 million hectares. Accordingly, Modi introduced subsidies and bank loans for oil palm industry .

Today Former Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake has taken the lead to re-permit farm cultivation which was arbitrarily banned by Gota. Ravi is a practical man who deals with new economic trends paradigms and parameters throughout  the world. It is a good that Ravi taking  the lead in revising Gota’s wrong economic moves and reset it in accordance with  the new world trends.

Moreover, the following projects started by Ravi while he heading the finance ministry  should be restarted.

1. The project  that connecting Sri Lanka to the global e-commerce platform and acquiring facilities such as PayPal
2. Dry port concept.
3. Project to allow foreign trade ships to  register  under the Sri Lankan flag.
4. Creating an ocean economy

At present, the trust in the executive and the parliament of Sri Lanka has been shattered. The judiciary is an institution that is very distant from the ordinary people. In such a situation, the loss of trust in the media is a tragedy.

The purpose of this article is not to write about the mainstream media ( media of the white collar culprits ) in Sri Lanka but to write something about the so-called alternative media.

There are few journalists  who fled to western countries and living there  saying that they life threat from SL Government . They engage in journalism from abroad as an easy earning  and to maintain a journalistic image. They are not responsible for what they say as they  are living in  abroad.

Most of them publicize controversial stories in social media  to increase their reach.

The end result of this is what happen is nothing but destiny of the Shepherd boy who falsely shouted “Tigers attack ” , that is, after the public trust is broken, no one accepts it, even if it actually happened.

The decisive force in a developed society is not political power but peoples power. It is worth to note, Public power is a lethal weapon that form, develop and spread through mass media.

What is the outcome to the people if such “mass media” work in a dishonest and tragic way?

Recently ( 6th of Dec ), a sub-inspector lost his life due to a incident that revolves abuse of political and bureaucratic power. There, Dirty Asylum journalists distorted the truth of this incident.

Inoka Rajapaksa( A Lady secretary  of former Minister of the law and order) and Deshbandu Tennakoon, who had nothing to do with the death, were linked to the murder by the aforesaid dirty journalists. That situation made safe passage real criminals to escape.

Another woman in the style of Thilini Priyamali, who became popular on social media recently, is responsible for this death.

Read the true story of Sub Inspector Ruwan Kumara’s death by below link