Public Utilities Commission (PUC) will not allow any faction to increase the Electricity Bill the Chairman of the PSC Janaka Rathanayake has stated .
Although Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekare is attempting to increase the Electricity bill by spreading false rumors like if the Electricity bills will not be increased 6-8 hour long power cuts will be imposed from next January ,PUC will not allow such an increase he had stressed.
නිදහස දුන්නත් දාලා නොයන ,නීති නොදැම්මත් සිරව සිටින ,ආදරය ,සෙනහස ,වටිනාකම නොඉල්ලාම ලබා දෙන ,නිතර සොයා බලන අය සමග ඇති කරගන්නා බැඳීම්වලට කිසිවෙකුටත් අභියෝග කළ නොහැකිය (උපුටා ගැනීමකි )
If the proposed Electricity bill hike is not implemented
.There's a need to impose 6-8 hour daily island wide power cuts from
January next year the Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekare
had informed the Parliament yesterday (06).
Making a special statement in the Parliament yesterday ,Minister Wijesekare has stated that Electricity bills have to be increased from next January to meet the expenditure of Ceylon Electricity Board (ceb) needs to produce electricity units .CEB is spending Rs.56.90 to produce a unit of Electricity and all together the Board needs Rs.420 billion to meet its expenditure he has stressed;
Kaduwela Magistrate Court had today (06) released the imprisoned conveners of Inter University Students Federation and Inter Universty Bhikku students Federation Wasantha Mudalige and Galwewa Siridhamma thero.
They were released on a surety bail.of Rs.100,000 each .Both the conveners were arrested and held under police custody for 89 days under the terrorism prevention act over the protests organized by them .
However the convener of Inter University students Federation Wasantha Mudalige has been further remanded until 12th of December over another case files against him .The case filed against the two conveners is scheduled to be taken up for hearing on 25th of April next year.
Trade unions attached to Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) and Sri Lanka Ports Authority had staged protest campaigns in front of Electricity Board head quarters and Clock tower ) at Colombi Fort today (06) against the increasing Electricity tariffs and selling lands belong to ports authority .
Protesters had demanded the authorities to reverse back the decisions taken to increase Electricity tariffs and selling of land belongs to Ports authority .
The 22 member Cabinet of the new government which was appointed yesterday (18) had assumed duties in the respective Ministries today (19) i...
