PM appoints Archaeological Advisory Committee to look into archaeological sites

Farieze Wednesday, 29 July 2020 06:55 PM

What about President appointed Task force on this subject

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Interesting Thursday, 30 July 2020 07:17 AM

......committee is expected to provide instructions to the minister.....Instructions, not recommendations? WOW.

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Tony Reaves Thursday, 30 July 2020 10:41 AM

PM on July 29, 2020 appointed a 20 member Archaeological Advisory Committee to assist with the safeguarding of the country’s archeological sites. Meanwhile, on June 3, 2020 President gazetted an 11 member Task Force chaired by Secretary Defence Kamal Gunaratne on Archaeological Heritage Management in the Eastern Province. The issue here is what is hoax and what is legitimate? The worrying phenomenon is the haphazard appointment of committees and task forces undermining already existing institutions could lead to a disruption of the public service in the long run also leading to misappropriation of public funds, resources and possibly corruption and at worst weaponing nationalism leading to communal unrest. In both these archeological related appointments interestingly no other community or religion is represented, which suggests that whether the gov. is moving towards engineering a communal divide where they could sustain the nationalist vote base at the cost of minority concerns

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