“The situation is not getting better,” said Jayewardena, whose wife and two older daughters already have their papers. “When we consider it from the point of our children, it is better to leave. “The cost is going high, every day it is going higher, but the salary amount is the same”, Maduranga said. “There is large-scale migration of construction workers,” said Nissanka Wijeratne, secretary-general of the Chamber of Construction Industry. “When I checked with one consultancy company, they used to have 70 professionals in that office,” Wijeratne said.

Source: The Nation July 09, 2023 06:26 UTC