Although there are around 100,000 jobs in the agriculture, plantation apparel sectors the present generation has shown a deep reluctance to such sectors because they consider these jobs are menial and not accepted socially. The time has come to dispel such fallacies, Labour Relations and Human Resources Minister Athauda Seneviratne said at the anniversary of the Biyagama Rotary Society held at Kiribathgoda Shara hotel recently.

Minister Seneviratne said that he was proud of delivering a lecture on "Citizens’Duty on National Development" on the occasion. As a developing nation Sri Lankans must learn the English language in this globalized world.The Sinhala language and the Tamil language must have equal status in the administrative affairs while laying a special emphasis on English proficiency to deal with new vistas in the world.

He pointed out that the Biyagama Rotory club consisted of potential investors who could invest in both medium and large-scale business. These investors must realise that the profits of their investments would retain within the country. In 1971 and 1989 there riots in Sri Lanka and as a result of that the country’s progress had seen a downward trend. The open economy had aggravated the problem to a great extent.

Minister Seneviratne added that people in Sri Lanka were inclined to secure jobs in the field of engineering and medicine and they presumed that the other categories of jobs were menial. As long as that people had implanted that concept the country could never be developed. If the same trend continued Sri Lanka would have no alternative but to import labour from countries to fill vacancies available in agriculture and plantation sectors.