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500 new buses on roads before April

50 buses handed over to President under project’s second phase
165 buses received from India so far
President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Minister Dr. Bandula Gunawardena and Indian High Commissioner Gopal Baglay at the handing over ceremony held yesterday. Picture by President’s Media.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Minister Dr. Bandula Gunawardena and Indian High Commissioner Gopal Baglay at the handing over ceremony held yesterday. Picture by President’s Media.

A token of another fifty buses (50) were handed over to President Ranil Wickremesinghe at the Presidential Secretariat premises yesterday (5) out of the 500 buses to be provided by the Indian Government to uplift the public transport service in rural areas across the country.

The documents of the buses were handed over to the President by Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Gopal Baglay.

The President inspected two of the buses at the function held yesterday. These buses are provided by the Indian Government as a part of a project which is implemented in parallel to the 75th Independence Day Celebration and its first fleet of 75 buses were handed over to the Sri Lankan Government recently.

Another 40 buses have been directed to registration and hence 165 buses have already been provided out of the 500 buses that are to be provided as per the request made by Transport Minister Dr.Bandula Gunawardena from the Indian Government. The project is to be completed by March 2023.

President Ranil Wickremesinghe instructed to direct these buses to all SLTB bus depots countrywide to uplift the public transport service in rural areas across the country.

Transport, Highways and Mass Media Minister Dr.Bandula Gunawardena, State Ministers Lasantha Alagiyawanna and Dilum Amunugama, MPs Rajika Wickramasinghe, Muditha Prishanthi, First Secretary of Indian High Commission Irina Thakur, the SLTB Chairman, the Commissioner General of Motor Traffic and Lanka Ashok Leyland CEO Umesh Gautam were also present at the occasion.


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