Kelani Cables' foremost CSR program 'Kelani Visura' reaches Trincomalee
Kelani Cables PLC; Sri Lanka's number one brand in electrical and communication cables conducts its workshop 'Kelani Visura' as a CSR program. Kelani Visura focuses on gearing apprentices and technicians on laying wires in electrical systems.
The latest workshop was held at Chaya Blue Hotel in Trincomalee to electrical technicians in the vicinity. Here, the participants were taught of the very latest methods of laying wires. Kelani Visura is being conducted in various districts monthly adhering to an island-wide map.
Kelani Visura was launched by the Kelani Cables PLC a decade back under its CSR program; Electrical Technicians' Golden Welfare Service, with a view to gearing local technicians of latest techniques practiced in the sphere.
Trinco Kelani Visura program was conducted by Anopradeepan of the National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) who is an appraiser for the whole island. Technicians who attended the program were taught; how to; select wires with certified quality for the safety of houses and buildings, fix plug-points and switches taking into account the distance and nature of the house/building, select wires to suit the number of lamps, laying of wires and other areas of crucial importance.
This comprehensive one-day workshop was inclusive of food and refreshments and was winded up with presentation certificates and gifts to the participants.
The significance of Kelani Visura is, gearing every participant with the ability to illustrate an electrical wire-laying plan of a house or a building during the session. Thus a particular technician becomes a person who could work shoulder-toshoulder with others in this competitive field.
Kelani Visura which has thus become the leading workshop aimed at training novices and technicians throughout Sri Lanka has been able to reach the milestone of training 16,000 technicians to date.
Kelani Cables PLC by conducting training programs to uplift professional lives of budding electrical technicians in the war- weary districts; Kilinochchi, Jaffna, Vavunia, Batticaloa, Kalmunai, Ampara and Monaragala and other districts has engaged in a worthy cause towards uplifting the standards of the sector.
Mr. Channa Jayasinghe, brand development manager of Kelani Cables PLC expressing views at the workshop said, the company treats Kelani Visura CSR program as an investment made towards emergence of a new breed of world-class electrical technicians.
"Amongst the Top-of the-mind products introduced to the marketplace by Kelani Cables PLC, Kelani wires play a significant role. Throughout many years our product has consolidated the number position in this country", said Jayasinghe.