A surprising move by the CEB Board of Management to hand over the management of the Lak Wijaya Power Plant at Norachcholai to a Chinese Company for six months, at a staggering fee of USD three million, was turned down yesterday by the Power and Energy Ministry Secretary M. M. C. Ferdinando.
When the proposal was forwarded to the Ministry Secretary, The Island reliably learns, he said that a decision could not be reached on a matter of that magnitude without Cabinet approval.
Ferdinando also pointed out that nearly 280 CEB employees had been trained to manage the Lak Wijaya Power Plant.
Sources also said that more than 100 employees, including over 80 engineers, had been given a special training on various aspects of the management of the power plant in China to handle the Norachcholai Power Plant.
Our attempts to contact Power and Energy Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka were in vain as he was at a meeting. CEB Chairman Professor Wimaladharma Abeywickrema said he was having lunch.
Last Friday, Ranwaka predicted that the country would never experience a shortage of electricity after the commissioning of the Second and Third phases of the Norochcholai coal power plant and the Upper Kotmale hydro power plant in 2014.
He made the above remarks at a recent function at the Galle Face Hotel to coincide with the handing over of the first phase of the Norochcholai Lak Wijaya Coal Power Plant to the Sri Lankan Government by the Vice President of the China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC).
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When the proposal was forwarded to the Ministry Secretary, The Island reliably learns, he said that a decision could not be reached on a matter of that magnitude without Cabinet approval.
Ferdinando also pointed out that nearly 280 CEB employees had been trained to manage the Lak Wijaya Power Plant.
Sources also said that more than 100 employees, including over 80 engineers, had been given a special training on various aspects of the management of the power plant in China to handle the Norachcholai Power Plant.
Our attempts to contact Power and Energy Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka were in vain as he was at a meeting. CEB Chairman Professor Wimaladharma Abeywickrema said he was having lunch.
Last Friday, Ranwaka predicted that the country would never experience a shortage of electricity after the commissioning of the Second and Third phases of the Norochcholai coal power plant and the Upper Kotmale hydro power plant in 2014.
He made the above remarks at a recent function at the Galle Face Hotel to coincide with the handing over of the first phase of the Norochcholai Lak Wijaya Coal Power Plant to the Sri Lankan Government by the Vice President of the China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC).
http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=35641
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