The Hon. Kumara Jayakody
Hon. Kumara Jayakody stated that many Ceylon Electricity Board projects have operated without clear end dates, with large project monitoring units and associated vehicles and facilities continuing beyond expected completion. He said projects begun in 2013 should have been completed around 2020, and that the Government is carrying out a full review and 100 per cent check of CEB assets. He added that assets will be verified separately, assigned to the relevant institutions, and subjected to a full investigation.
Verbatim record (translated)
Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Speaker, in many such projects there are a large number of vehicles, a big Project Monitoring Unit with a large staff and required facilities. Generally, that is how they operate. Many CEB projects do not have a clearly defined “end date” because, in my view, the temptation to continue enjoying the facilities and privileges exists from top to bottom. We are now taking steps to prevent such continuation.
¶ 02 These projects started in 2013 and should have been completed by around 2020. We are reviewing all of that and conducting a 100% check in the CEB. Accordingly, we are separately verifying these assets and assigning them to the relevant institutions. We will certainly conduct a full investigation on these matters.
Provenance
- Source
- Hansard, Tuesday, 11 November 2025 ·No. 22786 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
- Page · column
- not yet extracted — page/column anchors are not in the current dataset; the source PDF is the citable location.
- Permalink
/lk/speeches/11872
Cite as: The Hon. Kumara Jayakody. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 11 November 2025. No. 22786. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/11872