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CEB staff appeal to minister over transfer
Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) employees attached to Parliament have appealed to Power and Energy Minister John Seneviratne to order an inquiry into the transfer of the Electrical Superintendent attached to the Legislature over an incident involving several Parliament staff members watching a cricket match on a television set kept in the room allocated to CEB staff.

The Electrical Superintendent was transferred out and another person appointed in his place early last week following the incident which took place two weeks ago.

The problem started when the Coordinating Engineer of Parliament found some Parliament staff members watching the Sri Lanka-Bangladesh test match in the CEB staff members’ room and sent a letter to the Electrical Superintendent questioning why he was allowing everyone to watch TV in the room.

The matter got aggravated when the CEB official pasted the letter on the door of the room to keep others informed that they were not welcome to watch TV there anymore. This angered the Engineer who removed the TV from the room.

Later the CEB men were also accused of playing carrom during work hours. Many employees were angered by the move to remove the previous superintendent for no valid reason and made the appeal to the Minister.
The CEB men who are on duty round the clock on shift basis are allocated a separate control room along with a TV due to the nature of their work.

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