Fifty buses (50) had been handed over to the President beneath the second a part of the mission.
A token of 1 different fifty buses (50) had been handed over to President Ranil Wickremesinghe on the Presidential Secretariat premises right now inside the morning (05)out of the 5 hundred buses to be supplied by the Indian Authorities to uplift most of the people transport service in rural areas all through the nation.
The paperwork of the buses had been handed over to the President by Indian Extreme Commissioner to Sri Lanka Gopal Baglay.
The President inspected two of the buses after declaring them open by lowering the ribbons.
These buses are supplied by the Indian Authorities as a part of a mission which is carried out in parallel to the seventy fifth Independence Day Celebration and its first fleet of 75 busses had been handed over to the Sri Lankan Authorities not too way back.
One different fleet of 40 buses have been directed to the registration and due to this fact 165 buses have already been supplied out of the 5 hundred buses which could be to be supplied as per the request made by Transport Minister Bandula Gunawardena from the Indian Authorities. The mission is to be completed by March 2023.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe instructed to direct these buses to all SLTB bus depots island huge to uplift most of the people transport service in rural areas all through the nation.
Minister of Transport and Highways and Minister of Mass Media Bandula Gunawardena, State Minister of Transport Lasantha Alagiyawanna, State Minister of Funding Promotion Dilum Amunugama, MP Rajika Wickramasinghe, MP Muditha Prishanthi, First Secretary of Indian Extreme Charge Irina Thakur, SLTB Chairman, Commissioner Frequent of Motor Guests, CEO of Lanka Ashok Leyland Umesh Gautam had been moreover present on the occasion.
(PMD)
