Friday, May 13, 2011

Conductor Theft in a Site

It was an incident of my gang. The general practice of the stores was to dispatch materials required for a job by stores lorry.We advise them in advance for them to deliver giving locations etc.It was a Saturday I was waiting for materials to come till evening as I had to rush home for a weekend.
Materials came and I checked everything and dumped at the site at Gannoruwa in Yatinuwara Electorate.The 800m LT line could not be completed due to short of conductors and the matter was reported to higher authorities.The balance conductors ordered and I shifted to another site in Hanguranketha Electorate.
A complaint over a telephone received by the Additional General Manager about the shortage and internal audite was sent to my new site.The final decision was to put the shortage on the construction gang and total loss to CEB with 25% surcharges recovered from the workmen
It was revealed that the complaint made by a driver against the linesmen for private incident.

Electrification work with tough Member of Parliment

During this time the Member of Parliment for Maiyangana electorate became a tough member to deal with since he became popular with the assault of an Education Officer of high rank in Colombo office.The MP wanted us to see him in one weekend at his electorate and construction engineer,commercial engineer and myself tried to see him at the particular location and unfortunately we had to locate him at somewhere else.
We faced him with some courage and spend two days with him in resolving his new electrification works.There was no rough incident with this MP as we managed to sort out everything except that the request for electrification for pending payments.We simply convinced him that we cannot obtain materials for any work without funds and he was OK.