Kanchana Wijesekera, Sri Lanka’s Minister of Power and Energy, stated that the Ceylon Electricity Board decided to start issuing paperless bills and receipts to all consumers in January 2023.

According to the minister’s tweet, this action would be implemented in order to cut costs at the CEB.

He said that during a meeting with the CEB’s management, directives were given to put on hold the organization’s continuing building of its new headquarters.

Kanchana Wijesekera also stated that it was determined to regulate the installation and operation of street lamps.

2) Decided to introduce paperless bills & receipts from Jan to all customers, regulate the fixing of street lamps & operating street lamps, outsourced services to be done with existing staff & work that cannot be competed by CEB to be done with the assistance of Local Councils.

— Kanchana Wijesekera (@kanchana_wij) December 7, 2022