It is reported that when the National Vocational Training Authority was summoned for the second time to the Committee on Public Enterprises or the COPE Committee, it was revealed that crores of rupees have been wasted due to some arbitrary actions carried out by the National Vocational Training Authority.
Professor Ranjith Bandara, Chairman of the COPE Committee, who commented in this regard,
“The Vocational Training Authority is in a very bad place today. We summoned a former chairman named Kappetipola. He did not come today. He has driven the last nail in the collapse of the bureau. The ministry has not properly monitored this. The Auditor General recommended that an independent audit be conducted. We need to provide that report within a month…
10 key officials, including the current director general, were sent home and some transferred at the discretion of the chairman without the approval of the board of directors. Now the former director general has been kept at home for 4 months and a salary payment of Rs 486,616.16 has been made. Who do we charge it to? You have paid a lot of money for courses that you did not start and paid for one item after another.”
