Sri Lanka, March 9 -- In a historic shake-up of Sri Lanka's power sector, the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) has been officially dissolved and replaced with six separate state-owned companies from midnight yesterday, marking the beginning of a major restructuring of the country's electricity industry.

CEB Media Spokesman Engineer Dhammika Wimalaratne told the Daily Mirror that an Extraordinary Gazette Notification had been issued to establish six successor companies by transferring the functions and responsibilities previously handled by the CEB.

The Gazette, which came into effect today (March 9, 2026), ends the 56-year-old institution that was originally established under the Ceylon Electricity Board Act No. 17 of 1969.

Under the ne...