Post of ES Construction

When I assumed duties as EF in Balangoda area, there were two depots and were maintained as Balangoda and Kahawatte with a very big area like Balangoda,Pelmadulla and Kahawatte. It went upto Uda walave but in between Madampe and UdaWalave there was no power to the in between areas.

However, Madampe and Rakwana were electrified and ran under local bodies. We only maintained HT(33 kV) lines and substations.

Kahawatte area

This area was under a Minor Supervisor's control since there was no Foreman.

Balangoda Area

This place was under a EF (temp) who happened to be drunken officer and the EE was not happy with him.

There was a vacancy for the post of EF Construction

This place was filled by me and put directly under EE and was asked to look after the work of EF Balangoda due to absence of EF Balangoda.


RE Project 50

This was the time that 50 RE projects in progress and about 5 of such were in Balangoda area. Pinnawala RE scheme came under this project and that was my first construction job.


I did not know anything about RE Schemes nor about materials and layouts. The EE took me to the site once together with Linesman for pegging and I had to record pegging out details with the way the EE advised.

It was similar to the way we used to record level readings in a field book which we did for JTO.
The estimate then made with some calculations to sum up items to use with a template in a old file.
When Items to draw for the execution of the Job only I managed to identify them as the items were under a Store keeper.