There are unsubstantiated reports that the venture, about which very little is known either by the common or locale authorities,
is set to be recompensed to Arcelor Mittal. The worldwide steel-producing monster is supposedly competing to supply and introduce pre-created metal houses to which it shows up the Minister has taken a solid enjoying.
Inquisitively, it is likewise reported that authorities from the organization had gone by Sri Lanka even before the tendering procedure was started in ahead of schedule October (it was closed in late December with the offers being opened). There are numerous significant issues that emerge:
It would be putting it mildly to say that pre-assembled steel houses are outsider toward the North and East. No interviews have been embraced with the concerned groups or even nearby government authorities on any part of the undertaking. The suitability and fittingness of these supplier-driven arrangements and outlines have not been pilot-tried and nor does there appear to be any commitment on the contractual worker to do as such.
Utilizing imported inputs and benefits as opposed to neighborhood materials and skill won't just undermine the nearby economy additionally nullify any positive twist offs for the national and neighborhood economy a vast lodging undertaking of this nature can be relied upon to produce.
The houses are relied upon to cost around 2 million Sri Lankan rupees, which is three to four times more than in other late lodging ventures in the same district. While benefitting the temporary worker, it will just prompt a further extension of an officially swelled open national obligation.
Why is the Government privileging a contractual worker driven methodology when many years of involvement in Sri Lanka, incorporating with the beginning period of the Indian Housing Program, demonstrates that proprietor driven methodologies are less expensive, more versatile, and have more positive social advantages?
Yes, late proprietor driven tasks including the Indian Housing Project, had numerous issues, particularly obligation. Yet rather than location these why is the administration grasping a contractual worker inviting methodology? Indeed, it shows up these issues are being utilized to legitimize a methodology that is temporary worker well disposed and is absolutely non-participatory and is coming at noteworthy expense to the neighborhood and national economy. Why are supplier-driven arrangements being advantaged over individuals focused and participatory lodging programs? Whom is this system truly profiting?
Sri Lanka has an uncommonly rich history and involvement with vast scale open lodging. In any case, only the like past administration overlooked all that in constraining Colombo's poor into severely composed tall structures with little thought for the social or financial measurements, including the more extended terms expenses to the state, the Yahapalanaya administration is doing precisely the same.
