Eighty families living in Galapalleyaya village in the Ibbagamuwa DS division in a memorandum to Salinda Dissanayake, Kurunegala district MP and Minister of Coconut Development has requested him to take action to provide them with electricity under the Keppetiya-Yakadagolla-Galapalleyaya rural electrification scheme which was opened on April 24, 2007. Although electric wires can be seen everywhere in the village, electricity has not been supplied to the houses so far. The Daily News understands that the main cause of the delay in supplying electricity is a tug-of-war between two parties over the place where the electric transformer is to be erected. Electricity has already been supplied to Keppetiya and Yakadagolla villages under this scheme. The villagers have allowed the Ceylon Electricity Board to cut down valuable trees in their lands without claiming any compensation with the hope of getting electricity.