The Hon. Rohana Bandara
Hon. Rohana Bandara linked CEB borrowing and possible tariff increases to cost-recovery failures and the coal procurement issues affecting the Norochcholai power plant. He argued that reduced coal generation had forced greater use of costly liquid fuels and asked whether losses from coal-quality problems would be passed on to consumers through a proposed 20 per cent tariff increase or financed through bank borrowing.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Minister, first, we wish you success in ensuring this Ministry does not become controversial or a burden to the public. Your own answer states borrowing occurs due to failure to recover costs. You and we know that you assumed this portfolio because of the coal procurement debacle. We could not obtain full capacity from the Norochcholai coal power plant; the shortfall forced us to rely on liquid fuels, imposing extraordinary costs on the CEB. The President once said this burden would not be placed on consumers, though elsewhere he said part would be. We now hear of a proposed 20% tariff increase. Will the coal-quality losses be covered by passing costs to the public, or through bank borrowings?
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- Hansard, Tuesday, 5 May 2026 ·No. 23546 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Rohana Bandara. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 5 May 2026. No. 23546. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/19715