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Message: <blockquote data-quote="amasin" data-source="post: 16698179" data-attributes="member: 438906">  Champika’s 13 Billion Rupee Blunder  <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Minister says “We are guided by CEB” </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">CEB Gen. Manager: “Rise in Prices Inevitable” </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Power Tender for Jaffna “Aligned towards one agent” </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">No plans to set up CEB-owned Emergency Power Unit</li> </ul>By Faraz Shauketaly <a href="http://www.thesundayleader.lk/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/8-champika.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.thesundayleader.lk/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/8-champika.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> Kelanithissa power station, Nihal Wickremesuriya and Champika Ranavaka and Norochcholai thermal power plant Sri Lanka’s Power Minister’s quest to show case his capabilities in turning around the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) has had disastrous results. The CEB have had little option but to make immediate provisions to  secure 100 MW of Emergency Power. The quaintness of the English language has been used however to make this announcement less dramatic: the CEB now call this “Supplementary Power”. In Romeo and Juliet, they said, “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet’ except that at the CEB emergency power by any other name would cost the same astronomical amounts. A Senior government personality described the agent of a leading power supplier as a “Bloodsucker” – in describing the conundrum that the country finds itself thanks to the so-called diesel mafia. The latest saga that has afflicted the CEB is the need to plan for 100 MW of Supplementary power – just in case the water in the reservoirs do not reach adequate levels. The CEB’s General Manager Nihal Wickramasuriya wrote candidly to the Secretary, Ministry of Power & Energy: the estimated cost of this ‘stand-by’ arrangement was likely to cost anything between Rs 12,770,000,000 (12.7 Billion) and Rs 8,000,000,000. In Dollar terms between USD 110 Million and USD 69 Million. Money, which the Treasury can ill afford.  For a Minister who has been focused on monetary figures there appears to have been no consideration given to purchasing the 100 MW outright and having it as a stand-by measure. The cost of doing that would be in the region of USD 40 Million – and it would be permanently available whenever the CEB wanted it, rather than the 12 months this particular tender envisages.The CEB comprises some of th</blockquote>

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