Groundbreaking blueprint for SL re-opening
Geo Distancing, a far-reaching protocol which adds Vehicle Distancing, School Distancing and Work Distancing to the new normal of Social Distancing along the lines of Geographical demarcations may hold the key to not just finding a practical methodology in dealing with the Covid-19 virus but enforcement of long-felt dynamics to balance the scale between urbanization and rural inequality, says Contingency Intelligence & Response Agency (CIRA), a think tank and catalyst for disaster prevention, mitigation and management.
In an ambitious “Sri Lanka 2.0” Strategy, the think-tank advocates that the government is duty-bound to seize the crisis-opportunity to correct-course while ensuring that the gains on the climate change front are not lost in allowing the country to spiral back to pre-Covid-19 status-quo.
CIRA’s far-fledged suggestions includes that popular city schools be asked to operate satellite centers of learning, segregating student, teacher and admin populations in Colombo schools to three satellites in Colombo North, East and South, as a way of getting students back into classes but within their own localities and administered by the same schools.