Can the public sector live up to the ideals?

National Productivity Award for Ministry of Media and Information-Success story behind productivity:

However, in the light of the Ministry of Media and Information securing the National Productivity Award in the Inter-Ministry category, the traditional perception of public sector institutions in general and Ministrries in particular has to be changed.

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40th commemoration of D. A. Rajapaksa on November 7:

Rajapaksa tradition and the Mahinda Chintana

In Sri Lanka, there were leaders who, by articulating local issues of significance and making use of the traditional institutions, managed to enter the national political stage; D. A. Rajapaksa, though a local provincial politician with a comparable popular acceptance, was able to emerge as a leader in the province because of the fact that he, as many a politician in Sri Lanka, was able to identify with the major issues of the day, which primarily impinged on the social and economic problems of a people who suffered due to both social oppression and economic backwardness.

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'Little Nipuna is doing fine'

Dr Gamini Ranasinghe performed the first successful (ASO) in Sri Lanka

Little Nipuna of Gampaha, the first baby to survive the first successful neonatal Arterial Switch Operation(ASO),(the first ASO in the government medical history of Sri Lanka) performed at the Lady Ridgeway Hospital (LRH) Borella on October 1 was brought for his first check up on Tuesday to the LRH.

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