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⚡ CEB faces engineer exodus

⭕ In the past 3 years, 226+ engineers from the Ceylon Electricity Board left for overseas jobs – 20% of its engineering workforce.

⭕ Popular destinations: Australia 🇦🇺 & Ireland 🇮🇪 offering higher salaries & better living standards.

⭕ CEB warns of critical vacancies, plans urgent recruitment of skilled professionals to maintain operations.

#SriLanka 🇱🇰 #Energy #CEB #Engineers

16 Aug 2025, 15:35

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  1. මාෆියාව ඉවරවෙන එකට සතුටු නැද්ද දැං එතකොට??

    about 1 year ago
    1. Dananjana Yapa මාෆියාව 20%ක් ඉවරයි. තව 80% මාෆියාව තියෙනවා.

      about 1 year ago

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Priyan Chamikara ඒකත් ඉවර උනානම් සෑහෙන්න සතුටු හිතෙයි 😁

about 1 year ago
  • Great, now can hire foreign engineers with the best skills.

    about 1 year ago
  • Tharaka DhaNuranga

    about 1 year ago
  • Its not just CEB. in every sector there was skill labor migration.

    about 1 year ago
  • බදු සල්ලි නෙවේ😂

    about 1 year ago
  • This situation is much worse at the Waterboard

    about 1 year agoLikes:1
  • Same for doctors in the future. Stop them from leaving. Studying in government money and leaving abroad

    about 1 year ago
  • ඒත් numberslk පවුල තියෙන්නෙ දොස්තරලා ගියොත් විතරයි 🤣 අඩුම වැටුප අරගෙන ලංකාවට සේවය කරන්න ඕනේ දොස්තරලා විතරයිනේ. කොහොමත් දොස්තර කෙනෙකුට වඩා තුන් ගුණයක් හතර ගුණයක් වැඩී CEB එකේ වැටුප් දීමනා, කාලයෙන් භාගයක් වැඩකරත්

    about 1 year agoLikes:5
    1. Chalinda Samaranayake wrong

      about 1 year ago
    2. Sulakshi Nimsara what's wrong?

      about 1 year ago
  • People leave people retire and new people come in how is this a news even?

    about 1 year ago
  • දොස්තරල විතරක් නෙමෙයිද එතකොට රට දාල ගියේ? 😂

    about 1 year ago
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