Minister Dulles Alahapperuma said that the Transport Ministry was contemplating the reduction of railway ticket fares in tandem with the bus fares reduction after the decrease in the diesel fuel prices announced by the government in the New Year’ relief package. He said the decision on whether to reduce the train ticket fares would be taken next [...]
Railway ticket fares are to be increased with effect from first of June. This information was revealed today by the Ministry of Transport.
The fare increase amount has not yet been finalised and is still being discussed by the Railway Department and the Ministry of Transport. Nevertheless, the increase will be less than the 17.7% increase [...]
Transport Minister Dulles Alahapperuma and his Railway officials have taken their own government by surprise.
The Sri Lanka Railway as we all know has a huge debt burden besides being a loss making venture. Despite all that however, the Railway has resorted to acts of generosity in issuing iron rails free of charge even to private [...]
