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| Sunday, 6 November 2005 |
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Call to export Lanka's professional services by Don Asoka Wijewardena Sri Lankan professionals such as doctors, engineers, architects, lawyers and computer personnel are having plums of office in many countries. Therefore the time has come to export the services of Sri Lankan professionals needed in various spheres of education,medicine,law and engineering,said Minister of Advanced Technology and National Enterprise Development Rohitha Bogollagama at the launch of the National Work Strategy at the EDB auditorium on Wednesday. Minister Bogollagama said that the formulation of the National Work Strategy was started this year with a team of consultants appointed by the Commonwealth Secretariat who visited Sri Lanka for initial work plan development. The EDB made arrangements to launch the National Work Strategy for the professional services sector in Sri Lanka. He said that this was a pioneering attempt made by the EDB with the assistance of the Commonwealth Secretariat to strategise the promotional efforts on exporting Sri Lanka's professional services to the global market. He said that the principal objective of this program was to formulate a conducive services, policy framework and strategic program for the development of selected professional services sectors in Sri Lanka. Referring to the National Market Strategy,Minister Bogollagama said that in many countries policy makers had seen a powerful and important link between knowledge-based business and economic growth. Knowledge-based industries were constantly generating a high demand for high-skilled competent professionals who relied on brain-power rather than muscle-power. EDB Chairman Brian Agunawala said that several meetings were held with professional associations and firms in Sri Lanka who were involved in overseas professional services and added that this was followed by two market surveys successfully conducted in UK and UAE markets in June and August 2005 and a comprehensive study conducted in Sri Lanka with practising professionals, professional associations and private sector enterprises. |
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