New member appointed to PUCSL
Douglas. N. Nanayakkara has been appointed as a member of the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL).
The relevant appointment was made by the Constitutional Council on the recommendation of the President.
Janaka Rathnayake, chairman of the Public Utility Commission, says that with the new appointment, there will be no problem regarding the fullness of the commission.
Two members of PUCSL, namely deputy chairman Udeni Wickramasinghe and Mohan Samaranayake, had tendered their resignations to the Ministry of Finance, Economic Stabilization & National Policies on 03 February.Wickramasinghe vacated his position, citing personal reasons, while Samaranayake had said the work environment and the work style of the electricity sector regulator have become highly unprofessional, unpleasant and intolerable.
