Electricity breakdown is not sabotage

Mar 20, 2016

Trade union leaders said the electricity breakdown encountered last Sunday was not due to a sabotage act but a result of technical failure.

Electricity Board Technical Specialist Union chairman Lalith Janakan told BBC the reason which took so many hours to provide electricity is due to a conflict between the old administration in the electricity board and the electricity board workers.  

 

When BBC inquired wasn’t there any pre-preparation when such a situation arises, he said surely there are security measures prevailing.

 

He said “there is a question whether those security measures were duly implemented? Were the people in charge allowed to continue the situation?”

 

Supplying electricity is a team work of many sections. The old administration increased the wages of the engineers giving a special consideration which resulted the other staffs to mentally fall, said the chairman.

 

“Different workers have specific responsibilities and precise duties and all of them are specialists in their field”

 

However it is doubtful whether the non engineer technical staff who were mentally deprived over the previous administration was fully committed to reinstate the electricity breakdown, said the chairman of the Technical Specialist Union.

 

The trade union leader said if all the workers would have acted with a collective coordination the breakdown would have been reconnected.

 

“The supply chain of the electricity board is similar to a chain connected. The error was found in a transformer carrying 234,000 KW line from Kothmale” he said

 

When the error impacted the Norochcholai power station and when a large supply of electricity was removed at once, all power stations around the country came to a standstill.

 

Chairman Lalith Janakanth said following the electricity breakdown the electricity supply still have not restored properly.