Janaka Rathnayake, Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission, says that a strange payment is being made for the employees of the Ceylon Electricity Board.
Question – Is a lot of money really going to the electricity board for salaries?
“I came to know this the day before yesterday, Not only the salaries EPF and ETF are generally provided for the employees of the Electricity Board. That’s the normal way. But did you know that all employees who work here for 20 years are paid a third of their salary, a pension for as long as they live? In which country do you pay the EPF and ETF and pay another pension with the money given by the public? I think this model should be studied in universities too, because this is a very strange model. This is the biggest company in Sri Lanka, if this continues, it will collapse and there will be a 24-hour power outage in Sri Lanka in the future.”
Janaka Ratnayake said this while participating in a conversation on Derana TV channel.
However, when asked about this, the Chairman of the Electricity Board, Nalinda Ilangakoon, had stated that there is a method of paying pensions that needs to be legally and properly managed in the Electricity Board.
