Sri Lanka’s oldest radio station on the verge of collapse

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Created On Wednesday, 14 August 2013 09:30

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The Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC), formerly Radio Ceylon, the oldest radio station in South Asia, is now facing a severe crisis due to its mismanagement. The SLBC is still having regional broadcasting stations Island wide, but they are being leased out to various other parties . Its Ruhunu Service has been leased out to the SANASA, Wayamba Service to be leased out to a leading businessman in the country, Times Radio channel run by the Ministry of Agriculture and Kadurata Service to be leased out soon.
It is pathetic to note that that Ekala Broadcasting Station, which was a valuable property of the SLBC, with its land and other equipment, has been shut down because of a funding issue to maintain or run the place. The Chairman of SLBC highlights corruption and irregularities of other organizations in the country through their channels, but ironically he is unaware of the corruption, irregularities and malpractices taking place within his own institution.
According to inside sources, a lot of under hand deals are happening in the SLBC. However, it is saddening to mention that for his own survival, the chairman does not want to take action and is giving a blind eye to the workers who want to run the SLBC as their own. Therefore, entire organization is now on the verge of collapse due to mass scale corruption and irregularities, which have been rampant throughout the organization.
SLBC’s marketing arm, which plays a pivotal role to promote the Channel is also going to be sold to another party. With these problems one would think whether Sri Lanka could become a “Wonder of Asia”in the future, when waste, mismanagement and irregularities are happening in abundance.

(digathanews.com)