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Engineers not given due place in construction work by Indeewara Thilakarathne A founder member of the Association of Consulting Engineers Sri Lanka Dr. A. N. S. Kulasinghe said that Sri Lankans were the world's first consultant engineers and their services were obtained even by Indians. He was addressing a conference at the Hotel TaJ Samudra recently to apprise the media on the International Conference on "Challenges of Engineering Consultancy in the Asia-Pacific region" which will be held in Colombo from November 28-30. The conference is jointly organised by The Association of Consulting Engineers Sri Lanka and the TCDPA Secretariat in India. He said that Sri Lankan engineers had not been given a proper place in local construction work. He said that he had advised the late President J.R. Jayewardene that the Mahaveli Development Project could be completed in six years. Dr. Kulasinghe said that references were made in the Raja Taranga to Sinhala engineers engaged in construction work in India. The ancient irrigation systems and huge tanks and specially the invention of Biso Kotuva, a water regulatory gate bore testimony to the vast knowledge the Sinhala engineers possessed. The Department of Irrigation had carried out a lot of work to restore ancient irrigation work. After the colonial era, the Sri Lankan engineers got a chance to make a significant contribution to the nation's progress. Vice President of the ACESL and Chairman of the Organising Committee K. Sundaralingam, said that the Association of Consulting Engineers Sri Lanka was founded in 1980 and incorporated by an Act of Parliament in 2003 and the Technical Consultancy Development Program for Asia and Pacific (TCDPAP) was prompted by UN-ESCAP to develop the consulting capabilities at national, sub-regional and regional levels in the Asia and Pacific and the program was initiated in 1994. He said that a fierce competition in the face of globalisation and how to face challenges were among the themes at the seminar. Engineers Upali Delpachitra, Maxi Gomes, K. Sundaraligam, Ranjan Gunawardena, T. G. Perera and Tilak Ranaweera were also present. |
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