Sunday, September 16, 2018

Modern Sri Lankan Renaissance (2015 - 2020) : A speech by the JVP leader Anura Dissanayake on ETCA [Economic and Technological Cooperation Agreement]




Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna / JVP (People's Liberation Front) is a major socialist political movement in Sri Lanka.

"Niyamuwa Prakashana" or "Niyamuwa Publications" are there major policy printing and publication unit of JVP.

This book which is valued for Rs. 50/- and have 44 pages contains a speech made by the political party leader of JVP with regards to economic policies of the past decade of Sri Lanka and also about the ETCA. (2006 - 2016)

This book contains a 'Sinhala version' of the speech made by the JVP leader Anura Dissanayake on 2016 September 20th at Colombo public library.

ETCA stands for Economic and Technological Cooperation Agreement.

This was a twenty-year-old (1998 - 2018), work in progress agreement attempting to liberalize the services and investments between India and Sri Lanka.

Due to its disadvantages, this was removed from the Sri Lankan context by Sri Lankan economic activists and politicians.

To give an understanding of the JVP leaders perspective on ETCA and the selling of Sri Lankan assets and investments to foreign parties this book is reviewed by me.

To understand the "Sri Lankan Modern Rennaissance (2015-2020)" this can be taken into consideration as another perception.

This speech is an observation of the Sri Lankan political parties and their reaction to the matter.

The speaker emphasizes the "uncertain" political decision making of the past Sri Lankan political parties and how it has cyclically impacted the modern Sri Lankan economic condition on an economy which is struggling in the third world to achieve development targets of global financial institutions and the money lending powerful nations like China and United States of America. (USA)

Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) / United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) and United National Party (UNP) are being heavily disgraced by the speech made by the J.V.P. leader on their inability to be fixated to a certain economic policy.

But their speaker goes into excessive attacks against the above two parties.

But the deceptive and the short term concept of "selling" of Sri Lankan assets can be considered as a vital factor discussed in the speech considering the future of the Sri Lankan economy as a nation.

And also selling assets to foreign global powerful economies and its policy should be studied in a broader sense because it may incur dangerous impacts to future.

In the page '07' of the speech, it includes a description about the "Tamil Diaspora". The speaker claims that Tamil Diaspora is powerless and not something to focus highly.

But personally, I disagree.

In the current, Sri Lankan context, the economy has impacted very negatively due to the non-governmental organizations (NGO) related to the Tamil diaspora because these entities have created many issues related to human resource management and the job market.

On page 10 the speaker emphasizes on his parties role of fighting against global powers profiting through manipulating third world economies.

But my personal observation is through experience and observation of 27 years is that only United People's Freedom Alliances (UPFA) or Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) fought against global powers who tried to manipulate Sri Lanka and also stopped the 30-year-old war.

To finalize the essence of this speech to the readers specifying on ETCA and it impacts,

(01) Speaker believes Indians wants to penetrate Sri Lanka's IT  [Information Technology] industry or sector to gain benefits to their economy

(02) But he suggests a solution by giving examples like the Sri Lanka's well renowned IT background and companies. (WSO2 and MIT [Millenium IT])

Finally, the essence is to maintain the idea and show Sri Lankans the value of the struggle against ETCA.

The speaker believes that it is vital to Sri Lankans to maintain the ownership of the assets and investments in order to protect the values and resources of the economy.






















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