CEB felicitates innovators

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The Annual Innovation Award Ceremony of the CEB was held recently at the BMICH with the participation of Minister Dallas Alahapperuma and higher authorities of the CEB.

Chathuranga Wickramasinghe won the Best Innovator Award (Silver category). He has invented an image-based insulator condition monitoring system which identifies the surface changes due to the growth of the leakage currents using an image processing tool. He has developed it into an android app that can be used as an online condition monitoring system.

Wickramasinghe was educated in Uva College and then Badulla Central College. He was selected to University of Ruhuna and at the moment he works at Kundasale CEB Depot as an engineer.

It has been proven left-brained people have contributed to most of the world’s significant innovations. Even Albert Einstein had never got through an examination, but he invented things that could turn the world upside down. Now the Government has appointed an able Professor as the Education Minister and he has shown his efficiency in this short period with a lot of difficulties. We expect him to improve the education system by appointing the right people to make right decisions in order to ensure that the education opportunities are granted for the students from all walks of life, so that they can contribute to country’s development with innovations of this nature.

In this ceremony the top officials of the CEB assured the possibility of supporting Wickramasinghe’s innovation to receive patent rights as his innovation is of global relevance.

I take this opportunity to wish all the best for future endeavours of professionals of his calibre to contribute to more innovations and become an exemplary to the generations to come, whilst making lagging districts such as Badulla proud.

Kapila Kalansooriya, Badulla