{"id":245743,"date":"2026-02-08T14:43:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T09:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=245743"},"modified":"2026-02-18T09:56:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T04:26:02","slug":"rebuilding-sri-lanka-78-years-of-independence-78-modules-of-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/rebuilding-sri-lanka-78-years-of-independence-78-modules-of-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebuilding Sri Lanka: 78 Years Of Independence & 78 Modules Of Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Rajan Philips<\/a> –<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Rajan Philips<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cThe main theme of this year\u2019s Independence Day is \u201cRebuilding Sri Lanka,\u201d so spoke President Anura Kumara Dissanayake<\/a><\/span> as he ceremonially commemorated the island\u2019s 78th independence anniversary. That was also President AKD\u2019s second independence anniversary as President. Rebuilding implies that there was already something built. It is not that the NPP government is starting a new building on a vacant land, or whatever that was built earlier should all be destroyed and discarded.<\/p>\n

Indeed, making a swift departure from the NPP\u2019s usual habit of denouncing Sri Lanka\u2019s entire post independence history as useless, President AKD conceded that \u201cover the 78 years since independence, we have experienced victories and defeats, successes and failures. We will not hesitate to discard what is harmful, nor will we fear embracing what is good. Therefore, I believe that the responsibility of rebuilding Sri Lanka upon the valuable foundations of the past lies with all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Within the main theme of rebuilding, the President touched on a number of subthemes. First among them is the he development of the economy predicated on the country\u2019s natural resources and its human resources. Crucial to economic development is the leveraging of our human resource to be internationally competitive, and to be one that prioritises \u201cknowledge over ignorance, progress over outdated prejudices and unity over division.\u201d Educational reform becomes key in this context and the President reiterated his and his government\u2019s intention to \u201cinitiate the most transformative era in our education sector.\u201d<\/p>\n

He touched on his pet theme of fighting racism and extremism, and insisted that the government \u201cwill not allow division, racism, or extremism and that national unity will be established as the foremost strength in rebuilding Sri Lanka.\u201d He laid emphasis on enabling equality before the law and ensuring the supremacy of the law, which are both necessary and remarkable given the skepticism that is still out there among pundits about the NPP\u2019s commitment to Sri Lanka\u2019s democratic form of government.<\/p>\n

Special mention was given to the Central Highlands that have become the site of repeated devastations caused by heavy rainfall, worse than poor drainage and inappropriate construction. Rebuilding in the wake of cyclone Ditwah takes a special meaning for physical development. Nowhere is this more critical than the hill slopes of the Central Highlands. The President touched on all the right buttons and called for environmentally sustainable construction to become \u201ca central responsibility in the \u2018Rebuilding Sri Lanka\u2019 initiative.\u201d. On the external front, recognizing \u201cstrong international cooperation is essential\u201d for the rebuilding initiative, and the President stated that his government\u2019s goal is to \u201cestablish international relations that strengthen the security of our homeland, enhance the lives of our people and bring recognition to our country on a new level.\u201d<\/p>\n

The President also permitted himself some economic plaudits, listing his government\u2019s achievements in 2025, its first year in office. To wit, \u201cthe lowest budget deficit since 1977, record-high government revenue after 2006, the largest current account balances in Sri Lanka\u2019s history, the highest tax revenue collected by the Department of Inland Revenue and the sustained maintenance of bank interest rates at a long-term target, demonstrating remarkable economic stability.\u201d He was also careful enough to note that \u201can economy\u2019s success is not measured by data alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Remember the old Brazilian quip that \u201cthe economy is doing well but not the people.\u201d President AKD spoke to the importance of converting \u201cthe gains at the top levels of the economy \u2026 into improved living standards for every citizen,\u201d and projected \u201cthe vision for a renewed Sri Lanka \u2026 where the benefits of economic growth flow to all people, creating a nation in which prosperity is shared equitably and inclusively.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rhetoric, Reform and Reality<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

For political rhetoric with more than a touch of authenticity, President AKD has no rival among the current political contenders and prospects. There were pundits and even academics who considered Mahinda Rajapaksa to be the first authentic leadership manifestation of Sinhala nationalism after independence, and that he was the one who repaired the rupture between the Sri Lankan state and Sinhala nationalism that was supposedly caused by JR Jayewardene and his agreement with India to end a key component of Sri Lanka\u2019s constitutional contradictions.<\/p>\n

To be cynical, the NPP or AKD were not the first to claim that everything before them had been failures and betrayals. Rajapaksas were making such claims too. And it is not at all cynical to say that the 20-year Rajapaksa era was one in which the politics of Sinhala nationalism objectively served the interests of family bandyism, facilitated corruption, and enabled environmentally and economically unsustainable infrastructure development. The more positive question, however, is to ask the same pundits and academics \u2013 how they would view the political authenticity of the current President and the NPP government. Especially in terms of rejecting chauvinism and bigotry and rejuvenating national inclusiveness, eschewing corruption and enabling good governance, and ensuring environmental stewardship and not environmental slaughter.<\/p>\n

The challenge to the NPP government is not about that it is different from and better than the Rajapaksa regime, or than any other government this century for that matter. The global, regional and local contexts are vastly different to make any meaningful comparison to the governments of the 20th century. Even the linkages to the JVP of the 1970s and 1980s are becoming tenuous if not increasingly irrelevant in the current context and circumstances. So, the NPP\u2019s real challenge is not about demonstrating that it is something better than anything in the past, but to provide its own road map for governing, indicating milestones that are to be achieved and demonstrating the real steps of progress that the government is making towards each milestone.<\/p>\n

There are plenty of critics and commentators who will not miss a beat in picking on the government. Yet there is no oppositional resonance to all the criticisms that are levelled against the government. The reason is not only the political inability of the opposition parties to take a position of advantage against the government on any issue where the government is seen to be vulnerable. The real reason could be that the criticisms against the government are not resonating with the people at large. The general attitude among the people is one of relief that this government is not as corrupt as any government could be and that it is not focused on helping family and friends as past governments have been doing.<\/p>\n

While this is a good situation for any government to be in, there is also the risk of the NPP becoming too complacent for its good. The good old Mao\u2019s Red Book quote that \u201ccomplacency is the enemy of study,\u201d could be extended to be read as complacency being the enemy of electoral success as well. In addition, political favouritism can be easily morphed from the sphere of family and friends to the sphere of party cadres and members. The public will not notice the difference but will only lose its tolerance when stuff hits the fan and the smell becomes odious. It matters little whether the stuff and the smell emanate from family and friends, on the hand, or from party members, on the other.<\/p>\n

It is also important to keep the party bureaucracy and the government bureaucracy separate. Sri Lanka\u2019s government bureaucracy is as old as modern Sri Lanka. No party bureaucracy can ever supplant it the way it is done in polities where one-party rule is the norm. A prudent approach in Sri Lanka would be for the party bureaucracy to keep its members in check and not let them throw their wait around in government offices. The government bureaucracy in Sri Lanka has many and severe problems but it is not totally dysfunctional as it is often made out to be. Making government efficient is important but that should be achieved through internal processes and not by outside party hacks.<\/p>\n

Besides counterposing rhetoric and reality, the NPP government is also awash in a spate of reforms of its own making. The President spoke of economic reform, educational reform and sustainable development reform. There is also the elephant-in-the-room sized electricity reform. Independence day editorials have alluded to other reforms involving the constitution and the electoral processes. Even broad sociopolitical reforms are seen as needed to engender fundamental attitudinal changes among the people involving both the lofty civic duties and responsibilities, as well as the day to day road habits and showing respect to women and children using public transport.<\/p>\n

Education is fundamental to all of this, and I am not suggesting another new module or website linkages for that. Of course, the government has not created 78 reform modules as I say tongue-in-cheek in the title, but there are close to half of them, by my count, in the education reform proposals. The government has its work cut out in furthering its education reform proposals amidst all the criticisms ranged against them. In a different way, it has also to deal with trade union inertia that is stymieing reform efforts in the electricity sector. The government needs to demonstrate that it can not only answer its critics, but also keep its reform proposals positively moving ahead. After 78 years, it should not be too difficult to harness and harmonise \u2013 political rhetoric, reform initiatives, and the realities of the people.<\/p>\n

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