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		<title>Navigating Political Minefields in the Public Service</title>
		<link>http://www.slrfc.org/2009/02/21/navigating-political-minefields-in-the-public-service-part-1</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 05:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SLRF Team</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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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		<title>A bouquet for Railways Minister Dullas Alahapperuma</title>
		<link>http://www.slrfc.org/2008/12/18/a-bouquet-for-railways-minister-dullas-alahapperuma</link>
		<comments>http://www.slrfc.org/2008/12/18/a-bouquet-for-railways-minister-dullas-alahapperuma#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SLRF Team</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was the late evening of Saturday the 14th, December. I was a passenger in the Colombo bound intercity train from Nanu Oya. When it reached Ihalakotte, a small station situated between Kadugannawa and Kadigamuwa, the train was stopped by the control room to give way to a Kandy bound train, which should have reached [...]


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		<title>&#8220;Preventing accidents at crossings not our job&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.slrfc.org/2008/06/22/preventing-accidents-at-rail-crossings-not-our-job</link>
		<comments>http://www.slrfc.org/2008/06/22/preventing-accidents-at-rail-crossings-not-our-job#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SLRF Team</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[General Manager, Sri Lanka Railways (SLR),  Lalithasiri Gunaruwan  said that it is not fair for the public to blame the SLR for the unprotected railway crossings in the country.
The General Manager was of the opinion that it was unfair and unreasonable for the road traveller to blame the SLR for the accidents at unprotected rail [...]


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		<title>Opinion &#8211; New names erase our history</title>
		<link>http://www.slrfc.org/2008/05/03/new-names-for-old-roads-erase-history</link>
		<comments>http://www.slrfc.org/2008/05/03/new-names-for-old-roads-erase-history#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 05:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SLRF Team</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the helpful and devoted hard work of two social workers of the area, the Ahungalla Railway Station and its access road was opened during the colonial days on 26.11.1947.
Similarly, the adjoining Maha Kumbura Ela (Drainage channel) and its road was opened on 09.05.1968 by an officer of the Ceylon Civil Service who was then [...]


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		<title>Union says 7.5 million spent on Deyata Kirula</title>
		<link>http://www.slrfc.org/2008/02/27/union-says-75-million-spent-on-deyata-kirula</link>
		<comments>http://www.slrfc.org/2008/02/27/union-says-75-million-spent-on-deyata-kirula#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SLRF Team</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Questions have been raised as to how the Sri Lanka Railway (SLR) spent Rs.7.5 million on the Deyata Kirula exhibition at a time the department could not allocate funds for distress loans for its employees, the All Ceylon Railway Employees General Union (ACRGU) said.
SLR’s massive expenditure on Deyata Kirula has irked its employees according to [...]


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