‘HR capabilities in Sri Lanka strong’

Ramani Kangaraarachchi

Sri Lanka has the potential to take its place in emerging Asia, which is transforming the current global political and economic balance of power.

Therefore, the future of Sri Lanka is bright as the human resource capabilities are strong compared to many other countries, ILO Country Office Director for Sri Lanka and the Maldives Donglin Li speaking at the inauguration of National Technical Workshop on the formulation of the National Human Resources and Employment Policy at Taj Samudra Hotel Colombo yesterday said.

He said that sound education and training policy and labour market policy could provide an important instrument to offset the negative impacts of globalization, at the same time equipping people with the knowledge and skills to take advantage of the emerging opportunities in domestic and international labour market.

There must be concerted efforts to ensure that the development and growth translate to better skills of the labour force , decent jobs and quality of life for the people through the development of its human resource capabilities and promotion of employment, he said.

Secretariat for Senior Ministers Secretary Mahinda Madihahewa said the economic goals of the country can be achieved by the creation of appropriate human resources that would serve the country’s labour market’s demand and by supplementing the employment policy. He said that generation of human resources is a long term process and therefore sustained efforts must be made by the State as well as other stakeholders through an appropriate human resources policy and its effective implementation. Further, the available human resources have to be reinforced with life long learning so that the uselessness of competencies does not occur, he said.