COLOMBO (News 1st) – Although the government assured that there will be no power cuts during the period of the G. C. E. Advanced Level examination, the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka had granted approval for two-hour power cuts on Tuesday (24).The power outages for Tuesday (24) will be forty minutes during the day, and one hour and twenty minutes at night.At the media briefing to announce cabinet decisions on the 17th of January, Minister Bandula Gunawardena elaborated on the plan to provide a continuous supply of electricity during the period of the G.
C. E. Advanced Level examination."The Minister (Energy) was told to provide a continuous supply of electricity during the 14-days that the examination will take place.
He assured of a continuous supply of electricity during the examination period. However, we need to source Rs. 5 Billion, which is Rs.
357 Million per day. That is the issue in power generation," said the Cabinet Spokesperson on that day.Although the Minister spoke of assuring a continuous supply of electricity, a power outage of two-hours will be in effect, despite requests being made by the Education Minister to provide relief to the Advanced Level students sitting for the examination.The Ceylon Electricity Board said that it will have to continue with daily power outages due to the high generation cost, and the shortage of funds.However, the Public Utilities Commission said that it made recommendations to the Ceylon Electricity Board to not proceed with power outages during the period of the A/L examination.The Chairman of the PUCSL Janaka Ratnayake told News 1st that the CEB had informed them that they are unable to execute those recommendations.The Chairman of the PUCSL said that it is the.