[lg policy] Sri Lanka: Poor language proficiency among State Officers

[Harold Schiffman]

 Poor language proficiency among State Officers - Survey
Shirley Wijesinghe

The very low percentage of officers proficient in Tamil in the Public
Administrations service is hampering the full implementation of the
Official Language Policy, a survey conducted by Official Language
Commission revealed. According to the survey, the availability of
officers proficient in Tamil in 44 of the offices which were surveyed
located outside the Northern and Eastern Provinces, where the
administrative language is Sinhala, is at a low level. On the other
hand the availability of officers proficient in Sinhala in offices in
the Northern and Eastern provinces is also is at a low level .

In the provinces outside the North-East, there is an acute shortage of
officers proficient in the Second language, where the percentage of
officers proficient in Tamil is 9.5 percent compared with 18.1 percent
of officers proficient in Sinhala in the North-East. However OLC
officials revealed that none of the offices targeted in this survey
had the full cadre or the strength in their staff to cater to the
needs for the implementation of the official language policy.


http://www.dailynews.lk/2010/03/03/news13.asp
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