Kanchana Wijesekera, Minister of Power and Energy, said steps would be done to give approximately 36,000 additional connections that had been delayed due to the Ceylon Electricity Board’s financial crisis.
Speaking at the Ministerial Consultative Committee held in Parliament yesterday (Mar. 09) the minister pointed out that due to the existing financial issues, there was a shortage of equipment to provide new connections and that with the recent steps to increase the electricity tariffs, the strengthening of the financial sector of the board would enable new connections to be provided.
The Minister said this when the Members of Parliament raised issues in the committee that despite a large number of people have registered to get new connections, there is a big delay in issuing connections.
