The Ceylon Electricity Board Engineers Union expressed concerns that their representatives have not been called in person to make their recommendations before the Committee appointed to make amendments to the Lanka Electricity Act No. 36 of 2024.
The Union wrote to the Secretary to the Ministry of Power Udayanga Hemapala and sought an early date to come before the committee.
The Cabinet of Ministers gave approval to appoint the committee in January on a proposal presented by the Minister of Power. The committee comprises main stakeholders and policy specialists in the field of power and energy and will make recommendations for suitable amendments after studying the Sri Lanka Electricity Act No. 36 of 2024.
The Unions said they had written to the Committee with their suggestions and had sought a date to appear before it but no such date had been granted so far. They sought an early date to discuss the matters concerned.
Public Security Minister Ananda Wijepala told Parliament today that the suspect in the rape of a lady doctor at the Anuradhapura teaching hospital has been identified as an army deserter and he will be apprehended shortly.
Police have arrested the suspect connected to the sexual assault on a female doctor at the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital today morning in Galnewa.
The Dutch Public Prosecutor suspects two companies of paying bribes in the construction of hospitals in Sri Lanka, according to an investigation by FD, the Dutch financial newspaper.
The Government today tabled in the House the Report of the Commission to Inquiry into the Establishment and Maintenance of Unlawful Places of Detention and Torture Chambers in the Batalanda Housing Scheme.
Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe said today he wholly rejects the Batalanda Commission report and that it was appointed wholly with the intention slinging political mud at him.
Leader of the National People’s Party (NPP) and one time Propaganda Secretary of the JVP Wimal Weerawansa accused the Government of bringing back the “Batalanda Commission” for a media spectacle instead of a genuine concern for those who suffered during the 1988-1990 period.
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