Doctors and State officers hurt by withdrawal of tax free vehicle permits – strike on 3 rd.
(Lanka-e-News- 03.Dec.2015, 11.30PM) Following a radical decision taken by the government in its latest budget to stop issuing duty free vehicle permits to Ministers down to State officers , the Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) as well as several professional associations of government’s high ranking officers are to stage a strike on the 3 rd.
The GMOA has announced this trade union strike action as a committee jointly representing the Government executive officers’ committees across the Island. 16 more trade unions are affiliated to this.
The committees of the Sri Lanka (SL) policy implementation service union , SL administrative service union , Govt. Service engineering union , State Veterinary service officers union, Government Dental service officers union, Government educational administrative service union ,SL Surveyors’ department non staff officers union, SL Survey department Graduate officers union , SL Accountancy service union , Govt. science officers union , Labour Commissioners’ union , SL agriculture service joint union , SL Auditors service union and Inland revenue joint trade union are staging the strike citing the grounds that they are hurt over the withdrawal of the duty free vehicle permit . Since that demand alone cannot be made directly , various other demands too have been tagged on to it.
It is very unfortunate that the government servants in Sri Lanka assume they are a distinct ‘caste’ , and are therefore entitled to special perks and privileges.This ‘high caste’ is of the opinion that when they sit in those high seats the people of ‘lower caste’ should sit in the seats beneath. Like how this obnoxious notion prevailed in the past , so this government officers’ ‘caste’ thinks what privileges the ordinary people are not entitled to under the government elected by the people, belongs exclusively to them , and that the government should grant them duty free permits too. They have made it the grounds to stage the strike.
The students who are studying in the State Universities too are of the view, it is because they are specially privileged they are being provided with free education . Hence they treat students receiving education from other higher Instutions as ‘low caste.’
A (pingadi – free education ) student who has failed in mathematics , and has of necessity entered the arts faculty of the state university , treats a student who excelled in Mathematics and has entered the private Higher Institution ,disdainfully .The pingadi student without comparing with and understanding his/her own weakness, only thinks in terms of his/her privileged education (free) and looks down on the private Institution student .
Simply because the state University student is enjoying privileges , only taking that into account , these students insult others. (The ability of the student in mathematics was quoted as an example on purpose , because a student’s ability in Mathematics is treated as a benchmark for student evaluation in the world)
Among the Sri Lankans , still this ‘caste’ difference (stemming from a mental complex ? ) is still lingering and not extirpated. It is still coursing through their veins and are deeply rooted in their bones. Hence it manifests itself in various forms and shapes, and every determined effort is being made by these ‘caste complex’ afflicted individuals to give expression to it at the first opportunity . The word ‘Strike’ is the euphemism used by them for one such form .
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