The plant has been constantly breaking down and amid a drought which reduced hydro generation is breakdowns had plunged the country into its first power cuts in more than a decade.
Legislator Harsha de Silva, representing the main opposition said the plant in Norochcholai on the west coast of Sri Lanka was used to depict "development and prosperity" of Sri Lanka in a currency note.
He said in a statement that it was amusing that authorities had "thought it fit to depict this symbol of corruption in the guise of development as our nation’s pride in ˜development and prosperity’."
The deal for the coal plant was struck between the ruling classes of the two countries without open tendering through what is generally referred to in statist nations as 'governm