Sunday, 25 June 2006 - 11:04 PM SL Time
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has asked his Minister of Power and Energy to drop a proposal to turn off TV transmissions by 10 PM as a measure to save energy.
The President compared the move to the ban on eating rice on Tuesday and Friday by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party government allied with the traditional leftists during the 1970-77 period, when the current President was a junior MP.
The President requested the Ministry not to produce humorous proposals like this and to take steps to minimize the waste of electricity by the Ceylon Electricity Board.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Power and Energy has appointed a task force and a committee to implement the national policy on power conservation and to take follow-up action. The task force and committee have been entrusted with the task of finding solutions to problems in the implementation of energy conservation programmes.
Link to LankaNewspapers.Com
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