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Thiranjala Weerasinghe sj.- One Island Two Nations
?????????????????????????????????????????????????Saturday, June 23, 2018
Preliminary steps to help Chathurika launch a TV channel ! Vimukthi and Nimal resign !!
(Lanka
e News -22.June.2018, 7.00AM) As a first move of the most cruel
conspiracy of president Gamarala which aims at launching a TV channel
for Chathurika after sinking the Rupavahini internal training division
alias ‘SL mass media training Institution’ which has been training
television artistes for the last 36 years, on the 19 th measures were
taken to oust its chairman Vimukthi Jayasundara a world renowned award
winning cinema director and its director general Nimal Ekanayake a
popular senior media personnel.
It is with deep regret we are reluctantly compelled to break this most sorrowful news to our viewers.
This Institution which was under the media ministry for the last 36
years was brought under the president’s secretary even without the
knowledge of the media ministry at the last cabinet reshuffle solely and
wholly to achieve this conspiratorial objective. Indeed , Lanka e
News on June 1st reported this conspiratorial moves and maneuvers under
the headline, ‘Can you beat that ? Only TV training Institute of SL to be sacrificed to give way for Chathurika’s TV channel !’
The presidential secretary and notorious Sarath Kongahage the chairman
of the Foundation Institute summoned Vimukthi and Nimal on the 19 th and
instructed them to bring the training Institution under the Foundation
Institute.
Foundation Institute is another Institution under a chairman, and
Rupavahini training Institute is another Institution also under a
chairman. Even to talk about bringing one Institution of two similar
Institutions under the other itself is ridiculous and ludicrous. Training
Institute chairman Vimukthi had cited an interesting example in this
connection. ‘ A car can belong to another person , but can a car belong
to another car ?’ he had questioned.
To the conspirators none of these had mattered. Their need was to
produce an old deed and show that the Rupavahini training Institute
land belongs to the Foundation Institute. It is a pity the conspirators
haven’t the basic knowledge to understand that this is an issue which
can only be resolved in court and not by the president’s henchmen. What
the president wants to do is , bring the training Institute under his
infamous henchman Kongahage , and with the aid of a foreign investor
make that another TV channel to be brought under the administration of
Chathurika.
When the chairman and the Director General of the training Institute had
questioned about the fate of the children who are currently learning ,
Kongahage had said , as that was first launched by the Foundation
Institute , and as the latter has enough funds , the students’ training
will be continued.
It is very evident there are no honest intentions in this move
because , after ousting a most renowned cinema academy director and a
most popular Television media personnel , the Rupavahini media training
is going to be entrusted to a brief-less lawyer who never won a case in
his whole career except that he had a case of a different sort with an
actress.
Finally Vimukthi and Nimal who did not wish to degrade themselves least
of all before conspirators resigned their respective posts. With them
two more directors , Sonesh Bandara Dissanayake and Prageeth Mayingamuwa
have also decided to tender their resignations.
Lanka e News On 28 th May wrote thus … ‘By now , Chathurika and
president’s son in law have prepared and finished the ground work along
with a Dubai businessman and a Korean businessman . They are these days
moving heaven and earth to conclude this transaction this week or next
on the sly ….’
Following our timely exposure , the transaction could not be put
through the following week . But now the stumbling blocks have been
cleared.
In truth what ought to be done is not wreaking havoc on an Institute
that existed for 36 years , rather amalgamate it with another world
educational Institution and raise it to the level of a University of
international standard and repute which will attract students of other
neighboring countries. It is well to remember the Institute’s 36 years
old history is most paramount . But what is going to be done now is the
converse.
Even as Gamarala was making the surreptitious moves to take this
over from the media ministry , it was for the UNP and the media
minister Mangala Samaraweera to raise objections. Sadly , until
today there had been no such opposition. In those circumstances there
is not much Vimukthis and Nimals can do alone . Nevertheless the mass
media which thinks this National asset should be rescued for the past
students and the present ,can certainly defeat these conspiratorial
actions targeted against the media.
This training Institute that was taken out from the media
ministry should have been given over to the higher education ministry .
Thereafter , it could be preliminarily started as a faculty under the
Colombo University . Or else , by providing the necessary government
assistance it could be made an independent higher education Institution
with facilities for further improvement . Instead, by trying to bring
the Institution under the Foundation Institute which is steeped in
corruption , it will be like converting a bullock cart into a
handcart .In the end the handcart will be sold to Chathurika free of
charge for sure.
By a special correspondent
Connected report ….
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