President appoints three-member committee
With Sri Lanka imposing power cuts once again, inconveniencing the public, President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday (26), appointed a three-member committee to look into the power cuts and find solutions to the on-going power crisis.
Ministers Kabir Hashim, Ravi Karunanayake and Dr. Harsha de Silva were entrusted with this responsibility.
The committee was appointed following the Cabinet discussing the current crisis at length when the Cabinet met last morning at the Parliament Complex. Meanwhile, a senior Cabinet Minister told Ceylon Today that the President strongly criticised the conduct of the coun-try’s regulatory body the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL). He has blamed the PUCSL and several engineers’ unions in the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) for allowing the country to run into a power crisis, the senior Cabinet Minister claimed. The Cabinet met under the patronage of President Sirisena at the Parliament Complex last morning and the Ministers had discussed the power crisis and power cuts at length.
According to this Minister, the President has apparently said that some officials of the PUCSL and several Engineers of the CEB having links with private power plant owners has resulted in them obstructing the long-term power generation plan.
The President has said that he in fact has received information about Commission Members and engineers going on foreign tours with the owners of private power plants.
(Source: Ceylon Today – By Gagani Weerakoon)
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A three member committee again?
Mr P, the power crisis is caused by your decision to refuse the coal fired plant offered by India in Sampur.
You think you are the greatest Environmental Minister in the world and asked India to change technology to gas.
Mr P, you appointed a 3 member committee for SL Airways and having sat for 3 weeks, they came back to you and said what has been said a million times over; that is to find a foreign partner for SL Airlines to not only mange the airline but takeover the airlines’ debts!
Mr P, time to quit mate and manage the family paddy business in Polonnaruwa.
Another committee? His answer to any problem is to appoint a committee.
Ranjith,
The guy appoints a committee because he himself does not have a brain.
The guy cannot think on his own and so, hets other idiots to do the thinking.
One of the worst administration.
If there’s such issue, president should summon the subject experts, minister, secretary, relevant CEB heads, Engineers specialized for power grids. Identify the issue immediately. If they are not capable of handling it, borrow foreign consultancies. Running a country without power for 4hrs, gives a huge impact on economy and the productivity, I think no one cares about it. This country drags back due to those kind of errors.
People should elect the correct people to the parliament. If not, they only will suffer like this.