“There was a picture painted that one million electricity customers were in the dark,” Minister Wijesekera added.

“But when a connection is disconnected a person will get the connection back in a day or two. Sometimes in an hour two.There has never been a case where hundreds of thousands of houses being in the dark, he said. .

“I checked recently how many customers were in the dark after being disconnected. On average it is less than 12,000 daily he pointed out .