OPA focusing on three key areas this year
Ramani KANGARAARACHCHI
The OPA will draft reports on three key areas during this year namely
on the human resource requirement for next five years, the nutrition and
physical environment necessary for a healthy nation, and impacts of
proposed five economic regions on current framework of governance, the
newly appointed Organisation of Professionals Association (OPA)
President Architect Thilina Kiringoda said in his inaugural speech at
Waters Edge recently.
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Architect Thilina Kiringoda |
He said following a decision of the general forum, a sub-committee
will examine the national constitution with the view of submitting to
the government a report on the structure and the content of future
amendments. Government authorities and NGOs will be invited to
participate in the deliberations of these committees.
He said the OPA also has drafted guidelines to establish regional
professional circles enabling the members or member associations to have
regional forums to discuss national and regional issues. Interest has
already been expressed by professionals in Galle and Anuradhapura.
The General Forum of the OPA, with representatives from 43 member
associations and 23 professions, is the best forum outside the
Parliament for intellectual discussion on national and regional issues.
Architect Kiringoda said that people now live in a world which does
not sleep. Because trade and investment have overridden the traditional
agriculture based economies and due to time line differences in
operation of international markets, professionals engaged in business
connected with trade and investment hardly find time for relaxation as
the demand for fast tracking delivery of solutions has compelled the
other professionals also to work day and night.
The professionals have to be sensitive to this problem in their
personal and professional lives, also in their public lives if they
group to work towards ensuring better conditions for people. If they are
not then the solutions they find for problems of the society will never
be humane, he said. |
