Herculean task achievable - CEB Chairman

Shirley Wijesinghe

It is a herculean task to make the Ceylon Electricity Board an institution that is no burden to the nation. But it can be achieved easily adhering to a periodical work frame with your support, said newly appointed Ceylon Electricity Board Chairman Vidya Dilruk Amarapala after assuming duties at CEB Head Office yesterday.

Amarapala said that to turn around the CEB from an estimated loss for this year to zero level could be only achieved by the dedication of employees under the correct political direction with necessary fine tunings.

CEB has become paradise of professionals. It should be converted to a profitable organization without being a burden to the future generation. Nobody likes to see their families split. Likewise no employee of the board would like to see the board collapsing, he said.

He said that he will give priority to streamline power generating systems to maximum capacity and regularize it adding renewable energy sources to the national power grid in a special manner.

“Let us work hard and try to give some funds to the treasury making CEB a financially sound statutory board shortly.