Foreign Ministry taking-up issues proactively

We may have short comings. One thing is that the Ministry of External Affairs does not have many good people and numbers in staff. All the seniors have retired, there has been no proper succession for sometime and even the people who are there to succeed are very young.

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Socio - economic scene

Electric power challenges

The onset of the South West Monsoon, after a delay of over a month, must have caused Power and Energy Minister Champika Ranawaka much relief. On Monday, strong showers caused reservoirs in the Kelani river hydro power complex to spill and hydro storage rose by 30 GigaWatt hours (GWh) to 319 GWh.

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‘Retirement is the beginning of a journey, not an end’

Human Resources Senior Minister, D. E. W. Gunasekera, recently spoke about the social security system in Sri Lanka. He said that the National Human Resources and Employment policy is now under submission at the Cabinet of Ministers and many issues on social protection and labour strategies have been addressed. Speaking on the retirement benefit schemes, he said, “We must reconsider the feasibility of establishing a pension scheme for the workers in the formal private sector. The abortive private sector pension fund needed a much more critical study, analysis and assessment by professional actuaries.” He also highlighted the need for a security scheme for informal sector.

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