Salary anomalies of over 2,000 station masters in the Railway Department will be rectified before April with the approval of the Salaries and Cadres Commission, the Railway Operating Superintendent, Vijaya Samarasinghe said.
Speaking to the Sunday Observer, he said all information pertaining to station masters’ salary anomalies have already been submitted to the Salaries and Cadres [...]
The C.G.R. Station Masters’ Union, which struck work at midnight on Monday, protesting over salary anomalies, has decided to continue the strike crippling train services across the country.
Yesterday morning a number of railway stations did not issue tickets to commuters and people had travelled without tickets.
A Transport Ministry spokesman told The Island that the Ministry [...]
Sri Lanka Railways General Manager, Dr.Lalithasiri Gunaruwan said that though the Government was compelled to raise rail fares after a lapse of three years from midnight yesterday it had taken into consideration school children and university students who travel on season tickets by granting a subsidy of almost 90%.
He said the government had also taken [...]
Transport Minister Dallas Alahapperuma said he was ready to work as a sanitary worker, and did not mind working as an assistant to an engine driver, pointsman or a guard in order to improve the CGR.
Speaking at a function to give permanency to 1,500 employees of the CGR, he said the CGR had become a [...]
Transport Minister Dullas Alahapperuma said approval has been granted to absorb 1,500 casual, substitute and contract employees of the Sri Lanka Railway Service, into the permanent cadre.
A Transport Ministry release said, the Minister has stressed that these 1,500 employees had been recruited before he assumed duty as the Transport Minister.
He said along with General Manager [...]
On 20.02.08 there was a news item in “The Island” in which, the Minister of Transport has said that the Railways annual income had been only 2.5 billion rupees while the expenditure had reached 10 billion rupees. It further says that the deficit of 7.5 billion rupees had to be covered by a grant from [...]
The Transport Ministry is planing to absorb another 850 employees of the Railway Department to the permanent cadre.
They had not been granted permanency for the last 15 years.
These employees who worked on a contract and substitute basis in the Railway lines and maintenance divisions of the CGR have fulfilled the criteria for permanency.
A Spokesman of [...]
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 [...]
