Power matters : vimarsana.com

I am glad that G.A.D Sirimal has replied to my letter. He is au fait with the CEB affairs. I am just a consumer of electricity looking at the power-related problems from a layperson’s point of view. For me, actually it does not matter if it’s PUCSL, or any other body, as long as we are given power at affordable prices. By affordable I mean affordable by our environment, as well as our purses. I am no fan of PUCSL. But I believed it to be the only safeguard we, the consumers had against the powers that be, who run the power sector of Sri Lanka, the politicians, the businessmen and CEB et al. Yes PUCSL were interfering, nosey, petty, objectionable lot, more at home in a courtroom than a public sector institution. When I asked the question, ‘if not PUCSL, then who?’ It was a genuine query which I hoped somebody will provide an honest answer to. If the answer is the President, I’ll take it, if it’s PBJ, that’s good too. If it’s the planning ministry that’s fine too, If its consumer or environmental authorities, that’s great too. If any of these bodies are geared to look after the consumer and the environment in the end, not profits nor politics nor friends, then they are all good.