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Experiencing power outages other than the scheduled power cuts by the Public Utilities Commissionof Sri Lanka (PUCSL) is considered an illegal practice, Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) Chairman Janaka Ratnayake said.
He said scheduled power cuts would be announced only by the PUCSL every day.
"A written complaint was received today by the Irrigation Department alleging that the engineershave set the system ready for an automatic shutdown of the power generation grids at Randenigala, Rantambe and Senanayake Samudra reservoirs by 2:00 amyesterday and those engineers did not take any action to restore power until 8:00 am yesterday," he charged.
The CEB bears the responsibility of providing a continuous, uninterrupted power supply, provided power supplying sources are readily available in the grids and as per the mandate. Scheduled power cuts will be imposed due to the economic and Forex crisis. Other than that, not even the CEB trade unions or the engineers have the authority to arbitrarily shutdown power supply.
As announced by the CEB unions, they cannot decide on imposing a 24-hour island-wide power outage because it is completely illegal, sabotage, and it is against the essential service act. After announcing the CEB as an essential service, they can noteven make statements.
If such action was taken under the essential service act, they would be punished with rigorous imprisonment. The PUCSL can agree with the demands made by the unions by up to 60%, he said.
However, the unions exploited their privileges, as power outages enveloped several areas of the country and it can be considered as a sabotage, he said.
The unions are free to engage in any kind of trade union action or strike without causing inconvenience to the general public, he added. (Chaturanga Samarawickrama)
Kiri putha Thursday, 09 June 2022 06:30 PM
Hope legal actions will be taken against the corrupted engineers in electricity board . Otherwise they will play as the need.
joshua Thursday, 09 June 2022 06:32 PM
Unscheduled power cuts and disruptions have been in the blood of CEB for many years.
Sunil Thursday, 09 June 2022 11:02 PM
You are always taking about electricity, please talk about LPG gas distribution.
Jef Thursday, 09 June 2022 11:40 PM
Don't ever let any sector or sectors to sabotage the countries economy people have the say not departments and sectors government need to corporate accordingly not causing any inconveniences for the public under no circumstances all ongoing negotiations done on close doors to compromise in a one way or nother without any inconveniences to the public or economy in wider range to minimize further implementation for any loop holes
Adam Speak Friday, 10 June 2022 01:03 AM
This CEB Criminal Trade Unions and Engineers must be given the maximum punishment or must be privitised immediately. CPC is another useless Corporation. What the heck is Ministry of Power and Energy is doing.
Lakshman Ekanayake Friday, 10 June 2022 10:47 AM
Public Utilities Commissionof Sri Lanka (PUCSL), just an eyewash, spending government funds unessarely by maintaining this commission
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