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Item Study on the issues in Solid Waste Management; special reference to selected sub-urban area in Sri Lanka(4th National Research Conference on Applied Social Statistics, Social Statistics Students’ Association, Department of Social Statistics, Faculty of Social Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Udayangana, T.In developing countries, the high density of population, industrialization, urbanization and economic growth contribute significantly to increase solid waste generation. Sri Lanka, as the highest per capita waste generated country in South Asia with 5.1Kg per capita per day faces serious difficulties, particularly in waste recycling. Strengths and capabilities of local authorities are inadequate to make a sustainable process for solid waste management. 100 households and 30 private waste recycling companies have been selected as the sample and this research examined the competency of promoting private sector participation as an alternative supporting service for local authorities. And, this research attempted to identify the impact of households’ waste management related practices on current waste issue in the country. Basically, three indicators were designed according to the quality of the household practices, competency of social aspect and the competency of institutional aspect. Finally, it was found that there is 85% high competency for promoting private sector participation according to social aspect while there is 100% competency according to institutional aspectItem Labour Movement from Private Sector to Public Sector and Drivers of Labour Movement in Sri Lanka(4th International Conference on Social Sciences 2018, Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Withanage, H.H.; Kularatne, M.G.Labour movement, especially seeking employment opportunities from one sector to another is a very common factor in the era of globalization. In the mixed economic system, labour moves between private sector and the public sector and vice versa. In the study “Labour Movement from Private Sector to Public Sector and Drivers of Labour Movement in Sri Lanka” it is intended to investigate the labour movement direction from private sector to public sector. The output will be compared with the findings on the literature that will help to prove the hypothesis of the research. The data was collected from purposely selected one public institute and two institutes of private sector using a questionnaire survey. A total of 27 employees from the Public Sector and 24 employees from the Private Sector were selected using systematic random sampling method. This represented 20% of the total population. The research revealed that 41% workers wished to move to the private sector from public sector while 71% workers wished to move from private sector to public sector. In conclusion, it clearly empasized that more labourers in the private sector prefers to move to the public sector in Sri Lanka due to reasons such as pension, number of holidays, working hours, credit facilities and job security