IET holds AGM

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is one of the world's largest professional institutions for knowledge of engineering and technology.

IET is the largest professional engineering society in Europe and the second largest of its type in the world and it has been directly linked with Engineering Council (EC-UK). IET promotes the mainly advancement of electrical, electronic, telecommunication, manufacturing, and facilitates the exchange of knowledge and ideas.

It also provides broad range of services to members to assist them in developing their careers by improving their capabilities as engineers specially incorporate engineering and Chartered Engineering qualifications. IET has mutual arrangements with several engineering institutions of local countries.

The 74th annual general meeting of IET Sri Lanka network was held recently at Ceylon Continental hotel, Colombo.

The session started with Annual General Meeting headed by Chairman N A Senanayake. Then the new committee was formed for the session of 2010/2011 and it was concluded with speech delivered by newly elected Chairman Manjula Perera.

K B M I Perera was elected Chairman, Rohan Seneviratne as Vice Chairman, R Jananthan as Secretary, T Surendran as Assistant Secretary, and T Mohotti was elected Treasurer.