Peace Alliance on business development

Ganga Pradeepa

The Business for Peace Alliance newly elected Board of Directors who are senior regional business chamber leaders representing all the provinces were Colombo to discuss with the media about this important regional business and finance issues affecting the national economy and the role of BPA.

The Business for Peace Alliance is a network of all the main regional Chambers of Commerce throughout Sri Lanka, operating over the last five years.

In the Sri Lankan context where there is tremendous marginalization of the peripheral areas and most policies affecting the regions are formulated in the centre Colombo, and therefore the BPA was established as a collective of initiative to eliminate those constraints.

Secretary General/ CEO BPA, Manique Mendis said, “BPA is distinctive amongst other chamber movements in Sri Lanka with its bottom up approach. All decisions taken at BPA and BPA projects are implemented by the regional representatives themselves, in order to cater to the specific needs of the regions”.

Vision for the BPA is a responsible, professional and sustainable organization making a tangible contribution towards peace, reconciliation, national unity and regional empowerment, he said.

Chairman of BPA, H. Wijeyanandana said, “We promote a more construction business approach towards the marginalised groups in the economic sphere.

Northern and Eastern provinces directors of BPA told “Daily News”: Business; “Because of the present situation in those provinces we unable to concentrate on promotional measures to uplift businesses regionally.