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Annual Performance Report of the Ministry of Telecommunication Ministry of Telecommunication, Foreign Employment and Sports Annual Performance Report - 2018 Ministry of Telecommunication, Foreign Employment and Sports Annual Performance Report 2018 #9, Philip Gunawardana Mawatha, Colombo 07. 1 Ministry of Telecommunication, Foreign Employment and Sports Annual Performance Report - 2018 Contents . Page No 1. Message of Hon. Minister 3 - 4 2. Message of the Secretary 5 - 6 Ministry of Telecommunication, Foreign Employment and Sports- 3. Annual Performance Report 2018 3.1 Sports Division 7 - 42 3.2 Institute of Sports Medicine 43 - 50 3.3 National Institute of Sports Science 51 - 58 4. Ministry of Telecommunication, Foreign Employment and Sports 4.1 Foreign Employment Division 59 - 88 4.2 Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment 89 - 107 2 Ministry of Telecommunication, Foreign Employment and Sports Annual Performance Report - 2018 Message from the Hon Minister of Telecommunications, Foreign Employment and Sports ….. I have been fortunate to deliver this message as the Minister of Telecommunications, Foreign Employment and Sports, for the annual performance report corresponding to year 2018. This Ministry is responsible for the three main sectors in Sri Lanka. Accordingly, Sports Sector When taking the sports sector into consideration, the first Olympic medal was won by Duncan White in year 1948, thereafter Susanthika Jayasinghe was able to win the Olympic silver medal in year 2000. However, the time duration that has been taken to win the Olympic medal again has been 52 years. Further it has been reported that even in year 2019, the required level in order to achieve an Olympic medal again has not been reached yet or athletes those who can reach that level have not emerged up to now. Although, we can be satisfied with respect to the successes that we have gone through in South Asian and Asian Games up to some extent, when considering the development of sports as a whole in an independent manner, the stability or the unstoppable progress in sports is not at all satisfactory. I have observed many unique reasons regarding this matter. The Ministry of Sports and the Department of Sports do not have a comprehensive, integrated, active and practical system. The players do not get the opportunity to involve with their relevant sport on a regular basis, due to internal crisis and conflicts within the Sports Federations. Irregular distribution, weakness in handing and maintenance of the Infrastructure facilities associated with Sports which are provided on an Island wide basis. Weakness in the attitudes of the Athletes with respect to Sports associations. Therefore a programme with a clear vision has to be developed in order to overcome these obstacles. Based on that a two day workshop was organized from 2019.02.25 to 26 with the participation of the representatives of 66 sports federations, members of the sports council, sports referees, sports instructors, technical experts and Sports men and women, based on this it has been planned to develop a consistent methodology corresponding to the next three years and also I have already laid the foundation which is required to monitor this on an annual basis. In addition to this, necessary action has been taken to do the required amendments to the Sports Law, in a positive manner and also to do the necessary updates in the Sports regulations, further it has been planned to establish a fully equipped sports complex with respect to each and every province and also to improve administration of the Sugathdasa National Sports Complex Authority in an efficient systematic manner and also to overcome the inefficiency with respect to many sports grounds, further it is expected to appoint an Ombudsman with respect to the sports sector , however each and every step will be taken with the guidance of the Sports Council. 3 Ministry of Telecommunication, Foreign Employment and Sports Annual Performance Report - 2018 Foreign Employment Sector It has been felt on a long term basis that a change is required in the tendency of sending the employees for foreign employment and the tendency of the labor supply system as far as the Sri Lankan foreign employment system is concerned. Accordingly close attention should be paid on fields such as nursing staff, hotel industry, industry with respect to masonry and carpentry, these actions should be followed with the preventive mechanism to avoid the shortage of employees in Sri Lanka with respect to the aforementioned fields. Accordingly, the requirement of working in association with the Ministry of Youth Affairs, National Youth Services Council and Vocational Training Authority has been very well recognized. The activities associated with the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment which is primarily responsible for this, should be developed along with the methodology corresponding to the technological aspect in order to ensure transparency, prior to sending an employee for foreign employment until he /she has been employed at the relevant place and also an easy methodology should be developed using Information Technology in order to enhance the facility to send the salary earned by them to Sri Lanka using the proper legal mechanism hence, we have focused on introducing such an Information Technology based method. The board approval has been sought with respect to this. When these foreign employees return back to Sri Lanka, it is essential to implement a direct plan in order to draw the attention of the government , through the development officers who are who are attached to the divisional secretariats to ensure their welfare and development. It is also a great achievement for this sector to minimize the number of Sri Lankans living in the camps which are associated with the foreign embassies, as well as the time duration that they have been accommodated in these camps. The Department of Immigration and Emigration have implemented their work for those who are overseas for employment in order to obtain their duly formatted Bio data through the respective embassies corresponding to the countries that they are employed in. A cabinet paper with respect to this is expected to be submitted within few days in order to seek the approval of the Cabinet of Ministers. Telecommunication Sector In the telecommunication sector the primary responsibilities that have been assigned for me is regarding liquidation of the Department of Telecommunications and to expedite the pension payments corresponding to the remaining pensionable employees. In order to implement this, I have taken necessary steps to appoint a senior officer from the Sri Lanka Administrative Service on contract basis for the duration six months. As a whole when considering this sector as well as the Sports and Telecommunication Sector in order to carry out the future activities as well as maintaining the existing productive measures in the same manner, the requirement of a systematic programme as mentioned above is becoming more and more emphasized. In the march towards this long journey I expect the blessings of His Excellency the President, Hon .Prime Minister and all of you. I would like to pay my gratitude to Mr.Manusha Nanayakkara M.P, Secretary to Ministry Telecommunications, Foreign Employment and Sports, Director General Sports including respective Heads of Institutions and other staff members who have been always supportive to overcome these challenges Harin Fernando (M.P) Minister of Telecommunications, Foreign Employment and Sports 4 Ministry of Telecommunication, Foreign Employment and Sports Annual Performance Report - 2018 Message from the Secretary of Ministry of Telecommunication, Foreign Employment and Sports. As the Secretary of the Ministry of Telecommunication, Foreign Employment I am extremely happy have this opportunity to send a Message to the performance report. The foremost responsibility of the Telecom Division in the Ministry of the Telecommunication, Foreign Employment and Sports is to provide the service of transmitting message in the from of a telegramme through a telecommunication System in an effective and correct way between the sender and receiver, and the Foreign Employment Sector deals with bringing about a Sports Culture under the concept or “Sports for all” to inherit the land with healthy generation which will glorify Sri Lankan Symbol at International level. The economic impact from mobile broad- bands present in under - developed countries seem to be higher than that of the developed countries. So the purpose of the Telecommunication sector is to make a significant contribution to step up the Gross Domestic Product in Sri Lanka which is a developing country, by carrying out activities such as monitoring the performance of state - owned enterprises primarily engaged in providing Telecommunication services and coordination work thereof, promoting standards relevant to Telecommunication, activities pertaining to International cooperation, Research and development and promotion of private sector investment in telecommunication. The salient objective of the Foreign Employment Sector is to carry on the Regional Development Treaties while qualitatively maintaining the labour market at a high level by updating the MOUs, subject to periodical amendments. The Foreign Employment sector was characterized by its contribution to change the drain of labour from Middle-East countries to other East - Asian Countries and the Europe. As Sri Lankans our objective is to make our country, a leader in sports like other countries that lead in sports. To
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