Norochcholai also inferior quality like fuel – project still born at birth
(Lanka-e-News-09.Aug.2012, 8.30PM) The commonly heard story that the eternally problematic Norochcholai power plant is giving trouble has again emerged .On the 8th morning , the power supply to Veyangoda from Norochcholai had broken down suddenly , and as a result the power plant had automatically ceased functioning, according to the CEB of Minister of power and energy Champika Ranawaka. The CEB added , the bearings have to be checked in this connection . Owing to this failure , the national power system will be deprived of 300 megawatts power .

Champika Ranawaka recently said , there could be a power Mafia in the country.

Though the Minister and the CEB are blaming on their bearings and a mafia to cover up their incompetence and Govt. rackets, the crux of the problem lies in the Govt.’s anxiety to install inferior plants ( like the inferior fuel import) overriding national interests in order to line its pockets with illicit commissions. 

This Chinese project was introduced sans transparency and ignoring legal tender procedures as the paramount need of the Rajapakses was illicit commissions . The Minister on the other hand who knows the inside out of this racket is defending this project which was still born from the time of its birth depending on technical and technological bombasts via the media to delude the people who have to bear the brunt of all the Govt. and the Ministers’ blunders, sins and swindles. The Minister of course takes pride in making inspections of the site wearing a yellow helmet and in the glare of media publicity. May the Minister who is a part and parcel of these deceitful practices understand at least at this belated stage that what the people need is electric power and not power produced by his stinking lying mouth.

Let this Minister and the Govt. who are apparently ignorant of the past power projects of SL be enlightened that the people have never heard news that the Polgolla power plant which has been supplying power for the last 50 years has ever failed. Even the Victoria power plant that is nearly 35 years old had never failed , at least there had never been such reports .

This was because the Governments of that time were primarily concerned about the country and the services to the people , whereby they took special pains to introduce projects and programs of quality and excellence., unlike the present Rajapakses whose gaze is fixed only on illicit commission collections even on death and despair of the subjects.

By installing this cheap Chinese power plant, only the Rajapakses have stood to gain to the detriment of the country. By analogy ,now this project is like a woman who is married by a man for greed of dowry only to realize too late he has to court eternal suffering . But the irony of it in the Govt.’s case is , it is the people who have to pay for the evil greed and ulterior motives of the Govt.