Work with diligence, commitment

President urges all Heads of State Corporations: 

Rohan MATHES

President Mahinda Rajapaksa urged all Heads of State Corporations to perform a more exemplary service with diligence and commitment to make the envisaged goals of the Mahinda Chintana Ten year Plan’ a reality.

In a bid to expound and clarify the Government’s future plans and duties and responsibilities bestowed on the Corporation Heads by the Government, President Rajapaksa addressing the Corporation Heads at the Presidential Secretariat on Thursday, said these heads were an indispensable and significant fraternity to the Government which has fulfilled its obligations to them from their side.

“You too are called upon to fulfil your bounden duties and responsibilities to your Motherland. You are finally answerable to the people whom you serve, and obliged to show proof of your achievements to them.

We would be a victorious lot, only if we are a profit generating institution, viable and capable of continuing in business with our own profits,” he said.

He underscored the importance of working with a proper understanding, co-ordination and liaison with the line Minister and the relevant public officials and pointed out that sans such an approach, things have gone wrong in certain instances in the past. that has had a detrimental impact on Governments.

“The nation does not need ‘Opportunist Chairmen’ who work only to ‘serve their skin’. They fall short of being truly people-oriented and pragmatic. They fail to view things from a people’s perspective in such instances as when the Cost of Living rises. Some Chairmen are not punctual and don’t remain in their offices even for 45 minutes,” he said.

He reiterated that they ought to be efficient, persevering, dedicated and sensitive in the wake of a financial crisis the country is plunged into at present. They are obliged to deliver the envisaged service to the people and country.

Nevertheless, he said, “everyone has the option of working together with the Government or else leaving it, at his or her own discretion”.