President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has appointed a committee to look into the recent LP gas cylinder fires and explosions at domestic, trade and sales outlets in various parts of the country and to find immediate solutions.
The other members of the committee chaired by Prof. Shantha Walpola, University of Moratuwa are Senior DIG Deshabandu Tennakoon, Prof. Ajith de Silva of the University of Moratuwa and Prof. W. D. W. Jayathilaka of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Prof. Pradeep Jayaweera, Prof. Narayan Sirimuthu, Commissioner, Inventors’ Commission of Sri Lanka, Dr. Sudarshana Somasiri, Additional Director General, Institute of Industrial Technology, and Sujeewa Mahagama, Senior Deputy Director, Sri Lanka Standards Institute, presidential media unit announced.
The President has instructed the committee to look into all the necessary parties and existing studies and various views and submit the report to him within two weeks.
