Online edition of Sunday Observer - Business: "However, the government's efforts to put on track the reconstruction phase in the tsunami ravaged coastal areas, seem to have met with some obstacles, primarily due to the absence of an integrated planning approach. The government's planning agencies appear to have failed to respond in a meaningful way thus leading to this vacuum. The rather vague perception of the spatial dimension by the State bureaucracy has further contributed to this confusion. Most national level institutions in Sri Lanka generally focus on the sectoral composition of the economy and the spatial dimension is often considered a constant factor in their analyses. Consequently despite the efforts of the media to focus on the devastation location wise. State officials only speak in terms of the sectoral impact. "
