The report of the committee appointed to look into the matter has stated that the island-wide power outage on August 17 was due to the negligence of an electricity superintendent during the maintenance work of the Kerawalapitiya substation.

The report has stated that with the outage at Kerawalapitiya substation all three generators at the Norochcholai power plant were inactivated leaving the entire country without electricity for six hours and 16 minutes.

The report also states that the lack of a handbook on the maintenance of the Kerawalapitiya substation is also a problem.

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