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Crisis
in premier state IT institute As a result of the crisis, the organisation has not been able to operate its current account and employees have not been paid their salaries for the months of August and September. The institution's salary crisis is due to the lack of signatories to authorise cheques. At present there is only one signatory, due to the minister's negligence in appointing other signatories, CINTEC sources said. From mid-August CINTEC has not been able to operate its bank accounts as the contract period of one of the two signatories who was responsible for operating the bank accounts had expired, the sources said. According to these sources, the minister should appoint a director and more signatories, but he has failed to do so. Mr. A. R. Ekanayake who had been appointed on a five-year contract from July 1999 as a director and was one signatory, had completed his term. CINTEC employees claimed that when this matter was conveyed to Science and Technology Ministry Secretary S.W. Rajapakse and to the minister, they had not made any attempt to appoint new signatories. CINTEC employees have already gone to courts regarding the matter against Minister Prof. Tissa Vitarana. However, a Ministry spokesman said the institution had been handed over to the Information Communication and Technology Agency (ICTA) during the tenure of former UNF Science and Technology Minister Milinda Moragoda. "Mr. Moragoda gave all the resources except human resources to ICTA. Now ICTA says it has not been given any power to appoint a director, as no human resources had been given to it. Some employees have resigned on their own, while others have gone to court," the spokesperson said. |
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