Railway employees numbering 17,000 are to be benefited in the way of getting distress alleviating payment, Transport Minister Dulles Alahapperuma said.
This would be in addition to the distress loan entitled for public servants. The cabinet has given approval to a cabinet paper submitted by Minister Alahapperuma to this effect.
Accordingly, employees of the Sri Lanka Railways [...]
The Government has decided to reconstruct the stretch of the Northern railway line between Jaffna and Kankesanthurai (52 km) on a special request by President Mahinda Rajapaksa to strengthen the railway services for the benefit of the people living in the Jaffna peninsula.
Transport Minister Dullas Alahapperuma said that reconstruction work had already begun from [...]
One hundred and thirty persons travelling in second class compartments in trains without valid tickets were nabbed by the Railway Security Service during raids conducted on the Galu Kumari, Ruhunu Kumari, Sagarika and other trains on the coastal line on June 26.
Among the suspects are six women who are Government servants, said Railway Security [...]
A van that had gone down a precipice in Haputale had fallen on to the railroad track and then been struck by a goods train and thrown off the track.
The Ministry of Education has decided to gift the Elephant Pass railway station to the northern as an ‘Affection Port’ with the contribution from all Sri Lankan students and teachers under the ‘Uthuru Mithuru Yal Devi Train Concept’ mooted by President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
The decision was arrived at by the ministry to inculcate the vital [...]
Sri Lanka’s state-run railways is discussing a deal with Pakistan Railways to rehabilitate track damaged in an internal war and upgrade passenger coaches, a media report said.
Pakistan Railways will rehabilitate 250 kilometres of war damaged track, the Pakistan Observer website said.
The reported quoted Pakistan Railways chairman Samiul Haq Khilji as having told a board [...]
Sri Lanka government is to give permanent appointments to a group of temporary employees in the Railway Department.
The Railway Department said the letters of appointment for permanent employment will be handed over tomorrow to a group of 500 temporary employees who have been working in minor capacity at selected railway stations island wide.
The [...]
Over 17,000 railway employees were planning to resort to trade union action to resolve problems affecting them. The employees allege that there were salary anomalies which have not been addressed over a long period of time. They also allege that disaster loans have not been paid and that some employees have not been confirmed in [...]
