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Navigating Political Minefields in the Public Service

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

It was by a quirk of circumstance that my friend and batch mate AGA and I found ourselves in the office of Mr. Vaithialingam at Railway Headquarters one day about the end of June 1960. This amiable, gentle person was the Chief Engineer, Way and Works, Sri Lanka Railways.
Year after year for several years he [...]

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Trains to run on bio-diesel from 2010

Monday, July 7th, 2008

The Sri Lanka Railways will run trains and powersets using bio-diesel by 2010 to curtail the drain on foreign exchange to import petroleum products, Transport Minister, Dullas Alahapperuma said yesterday.
The main source of producing bio-diesel will be Weta Endaru (Jetropha) which would be grown along the railway reservations on either side of the 1200 kilometre-long [...]

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