President advices to strengthen government procurement process
A discussion on the strengthening the government procurement process, was held under the patronage of President Maithripala Sirisena, with the participation of the members of the Procurement Committee, at the Presidential Secretariat, on 03rd February.
The attention has been drawn regarding the necessity of a new process to carry out the public sector procurement process in an efficient manner as well as issues related to the Procurement Committee.
It was discussed in detail regarding the functioning of the Procurement Committee and the irregularities occurred at the Committee , under the new government and the past regime.
The Prime Minister RanilWickremesinghe,, Minister of Finance ,Ravi Karunanayake, the officials , including Secretary to the Ministry of Finance, R.H.S. Samaratunge, The Chairman of the Ministry Procurement Committee,B.N.I.F.A. Wickramasuriya participated at this meeting.
(Government News Portal)
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The picture in this news item speaks a million words.
It shows the President speaking and seated next to him, with a disdainfully sour face, is the President’s coalition partner.
What the partner’s face demonstrates is that ‘No Komis, No Development; the procurement process is just a load of rubbish’.
In fact, I request Onlanka to invite captions for this photo from its readers; that will be fantastic!
yes ranil is there only in body
i think what they ought to be discussing is not procurement but financial regulation for the central bank is clueless and most likely sirisena knows about it than ranil. financial regulation should apply to all private banks and it should be a dynamic process transparent to senior executives of the bank.
The Central Bank, like all other public institutions, is manned top to bottom by corrupt officilas.
We can appoint Lily-White professional to the Governor’s post but beneath him, all other officials who are delegated with authority to make day-to-day decisions are corrupt to the core.
It’s not only in the CB, but in each and every public authority, corruption reigns supreme. Majority of officers in state institutions are political appointees or have gained jobs from corrupt higher officials within the institution.
The purpose of gaining a job in a public (and even in the private) sector, is to ‘eat’ and become rich by owning multiple houses, luxury cars, housewives spending millions buying ‘rubbish’ in Colombo’s malls, driver and car ferrying kids to school, overseas education for grownup kids, family holidays in overseas resorts and alcohol and glamorous women and mistresses and call girls.
Well, those are the aspirations of the Sri Lankans.
The people who are in charge of our economy and finances, should take serious note of endemic corruption within society and account for that in the system and budgets. It is futile to crackdown on corruption. It is an endless malaise.