Climate Change is predicted as the biggest crisis faced by mankind and will badly hit developing countries like Sri Lanka. However, an opportunity has arisen to earn valuable foreign exchange through mechanisms adopted in the fight against Global Warming. Carbon Trading or selling Carbon Credits earned through Green House Gas (GHG) reduction projects is becoming [...]
Sri Lanka is to purchase 15 locomotive engines to improve the railway service, which has been subjected to heavy criticism recently, for under performance and bureaucratic inefficiency.
SL Railways imported eight high tech French-built engines in 2002, which was a sham as only two of the engines are presently in running condition.
Minister of Transport, Dulles Alahapperuma, [...]
In his efforts to improve the Railway Service, Transport Minister Dulles Alahapperuma has instructed railway authorities to replace 20 years old coaches of Yal Devi with Chinese-built new coaches which have modern facilities that include a public music system, spokesman for the Ministry Sumith Chandana Weerasingha said.
The department has imported 100 train coaches built to [...]
