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Thursday, July 3, 2014
SPC Chief under investigation
Defends his actions
BY Ruwan Laknath Jayakody-July 3, 2014
The Chairman of the State Printing Corporation (SPC) Jayampathi Bandara Heenkenda is under investigation over allegations of financial irregularities, owing to an internal document being leaked to the public.
The document had been leaked for reasons of political gain or a personal grudge, Heenkenda remarked.
The SPC comes under the direct purview of the Ministry of Mass Media and Information.
The Chairman of the SPC quashed rumours, that had been circualted in the media, to the effect that the Public Enterprises Reform Commission (PERC) had instructed Secretary to the Ministry of Mass Media and Information, Dr. Charitha Herath, to ask him to resign.
Dr. Herath said the Ministry was looking into the matter as there were some issues.
The Chairman of the SPC, with over 15 years experience as a printer, told Ceylon Today newspapers had already passed judgement on his case with regard to his Rs 10 million worth official vehicle, which the Secretary of the Department of Public Enterprises had given him permission to obtain.
"When I took over the SPC in 2010, it was running at a loss and was also put up for sale on the PERC. Since then, Karu Jayasuriya, the Chairman of the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) at the time praised my efforts of having quadrupled the income and we managed to get a net profit of Rs 140 million in 2013. On one occasion, a crucial machine broke down and if we followed the rules, regulations and official 'on paper' procedures laid down to fix the problem, it would have taken three months to solve and therefore I decided on my own to get an Indian engineer down but although the final result was good and saved time, the manner in which it was done was wrong," Heenkenda added.
Sometimes, when working in the government doing government service, rules and regulations in circulars issued have to be bent, broken or done away with in order to make these State institutions profitable, but auditors only see and query as to how we managed to reap these profits strictly from an auditor's angle and an auditing framework, he opined.
Heenkenda observed that he had managed these feats only with another Director without the addition of any material wealth like machines and without hiring or firing any employees other than the existing ones.
He noted that only the Minister of Mass Media and Information, Dr. Keheliya Rambukwella, could ask him to leave.
Government factories and services become inactive if all the rules and regulations of the country are going to be followed by officials who have a short-term in their positions, Heenkenda emphasized.
Defends his actionsBY Ruwan Laknath Jayakody-July 3, 2014
The Chairman of the State Printing Corporation (SPC) Jayampathi Bandara Heenkenda is under investigation over allegations of financial irregularities, owing to an internal document being leaked to the public.
The document had been leaked for reasons of political gain or a personal grudge, Heenkenda remarked.
The SPC comes under the direct purview of the Ministry of Mass Media and Information.
The Chairman of the SPC quashed rumours, that had been circualted in the media, to the effect that the Public Enterprises Reform Commission (PERC) had instructed Secretary to the Ministry of Mass Media and Information, Dr. Charitha Herath, to ask him to resign.
Dr. Herath said the Ministry was looking into the matter as there were some issues.
The Chairman of the SPC, with over 15 years experience as a printer, told Ceylon Today newspapers had already passed judgement on his case with regard to his Rs 10 million worth official vehicle, which the Secretary of the Department of Public Enterprises had given him permission to obtain.
"When I took over the SPC in 2010, it was running at a loss and was also put up for sale on the PERC. Since then, Karu Jayasuriya, the Chairman of the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) at the time praised my efforts of having quadrupled the income and we managed to get a net profit of Rs 140 million in 2013. On one occasion, a crucial machine broke down and if we followed the rules, regulations and official 'on paper' procedures laid down to fix the problem, it would have taken three months to solve and therefore I decided on my own to get an Indian engineer down but although the final result was good and saved time, the manner in which it was done was wrong," Heenkenda added.
Sometimes, when working in the government doing government service, rules and regulations in circulars issued have to be bent, broken or done away with in order to make these State institutions profitable, but auditors only see and query as to how we managed to reap these profits strictly from an auditor's angle and an auditing framework, he opined.
Heenkenda observed that he had managed these feats only with another Director without the addition of any material wealth like machines and without hiring or firing any employees other than the existing ones.
He noted that only the Minister of Mass Media and Information, Dr. Keheliya Rambukwella, could ask him to leave.
Government factories and services become inactive if all the rules and regulations of the country are going to be followed by officials who have a short-term in their positions, Heenkenda emphasized.
