Idea 495 of 500. Cluster 27: The north and the east
A returnee service for the north and the east: permits, the tax office and the school, in one visit
The mechanism, from the book
The land, the lagoons and the savings of families abroad are waiting. What comes first is the small business.
Every idea in cluster 27 uses this mechanism.
A first step
List every office a returning family in the north or east must visit in its first month: land, permits, tax and schools. Visit each one yourself, noting the documents, the queues and the opening hours, and turn it into a single checklist. Then offer, through a Sri Lankan association abroad, to walk 3 families through it for a fee. Families paying is the service.
- Who pays first
- A Sri Lankan family abroad reclaiming land or a house in the north, who would pay one person to handle the offices in one visit rather than several trips.
- What leaves today
- Money and skills held by Sri Lankans abroad who want to come home stall at the first office, and the missing proof is that return can be done in one visit.
The idea and the mechanism are from the book. The first step was written for this site as a suggestion; if you know a better one, say so.
The test
Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?
The only test any idea on this site has to pass. The four rules that go with it are here.
In the book
- Ch. ThreeWhat We Have Already Built
Jaffna in what we have already built - Ch. SixteenThe Bridge
A nurse who comes home with a credential and not only savings
More from cluster 27
- 486Palmyrah co-operatives owning the processing, the way the coconut list works for the south
- 487Jaffna heritage stays in the old Dutch and Jaffna houses, restored by the families abroad
- 488Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu farm co-operatives with a cold chain to Colombo
- 489Batticaloa lagoon tourism: the singing fish, the kayaks, the prawns, sold as a week
- 490Technical colleges in Jaffna and Batticaloa funded by families abroad, with the employers at the table
- 491Trincomalee's Dutch fort and Koneswaram as one managed site, with a shop and a guide service
Idea 495 of the 500 in the appendix of Why Not Sri Lanka? Every one can be started by one person, one family or one small firm.