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JVP unions threaten to block CEB reforms
JVP-led unions in the Ceylon Electricity Board are demanding a written assurance from Power and Energy Minister Susil Premajayantha that the CEB will not be privatized at least for the next two years.

Union leaders warned yesterday that if such a written assurance was not given, they would block the implementation of the latest CEB reforms package which was approved by the cabinet last Wednesday.

“We are agreeable to reforms in the CEB, but will strongly oppose the setting up of a company,” Viduli Bala Sevaka Sangamaya General Secretary Ranjan Jayalal said.

He said that if a written assurance was not given, the unions would begin their agitation with a protest campaign outside the CEB headquarters early next month.

Mr. Jayalal said his union met leaders of 21 other CEB unions on Friday to discuss the issue and most of them were supportive of the demand for a written assurance though some unions had agreed to the latest reforms package.
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