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It is a matter that never dawned on the learned Ministers and
politicians of these country. Now it is too late to tackle or arrest
this problem of student discipline in the universities. The same cancer
has extended its venomous tentacles to other institutions such as
Technical Colleges, Leading Colleges in the country and alarmingly to
some rural schools.
Politics mingled with education and religion is bane to a country and
unless and otherwise a new culture of learning is formulated and
forcibly implemented, there is no way out of this mess, which will one
day engulf the whole country in fire, because youths don't bother of the
consequences or repercussions of their actions once kindled by politics
or religion.
It is a disgrace universities becoming slaughter grounds in the
recent past and the system needs a 360 degree about-turn or better a
decent closure to save the country, from idiotic, uncontrollable force.
Rila
The activities in the current world are so modern and dynamic the
majority of people are now used to surf the web to find all the required
information with a limited time for their day to day life, particularly
a traveller who plans to make a tour abroad.
We, as Sri Lankans who take all the trouble to attract more visitors
to our country as tourists by promoting our valuable attractions and
facilities made available to foreigners are far behind as a very
important aspect related to travel is not updated to date.
It's a known fact that all the airports, including small domestic
airports in India too are having their own descriptive websites with
very valuable information, but not the BIA, the Colombo International
Airport with many modern facilities for us to be proud of.
Unfortunately a visitor to Sri Lanka has no way to seek information
about facilities made available for them to get out of the Airport and
reach a pre planned destination upon his/her arrival at the Colombo
Airport. This is a saddening matter, which should be paid more attention
by responsible authorities.
It is high time that anyone responsible takes immediate action to
make an informative website as soon as possible without waiting until
the new International Airport is also completed and begins its operation
to publish both airports in one website.
Majority of the International Airport websites contains all the
information about flights being operated by them, all flight arrival and
departure times, taxi and transport facilities, accommodation facilities
available and all sorts of other important facilities being made
available to its passengers and many more.
Unfortunately, a foreigner planning to visit Sri Lanka will have to
seek information from other websites who have very limited and poor
information about our Colombo airport.
Hope this message would help the relevant authorities to give a start
on the above matter as soon as possible.
A few years back, there was a website of our Airport with many
important information, but it is inactive now, although many other
travel related web sites refers to the previous web address given as
www.airport.lk.
REXIE DABARE
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