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#RailBusSriLanka #Trainsome #MadeInIndia A romantic ride on a Narrow Gauge Ashok Leyland Railbus Rail Bus Sri Lanka 🇱🇰. Train services in Sri Lanka. A locally made Rail bus. Interesting way to manage the local transportation. Subscribe to our channel for such interesting videos. LINKS India to assist Sri Lanka in Rs 2.7 cr Railbus project India is providing Sri Lanka assistance worth Rs 2.7 crore in implementing a rail bus project to connect the Tamil-dominated areas of Batiicaloa and Trincomalee in the eastern part of the country. The project that involves conversion of the existing conventional road transport system to one that is rail run, was formally inaugurated in Batticaloa today by Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Alok Prasad along with Sri Lankan Transport Minister Dullas Alahapperuma. The project aims to provide a quick and affordable avenue of transport between the two cities by converting conventional buses to enable them to run on rail tracks. The government of India has provided 10 buses at a cost of SLR 44 million to Sri Lanka Railways and has made available an additional SLR 22 million to pay for the cost of conversion of these buses into five railbus units. The conversion work will be carried out at the Sri Lankan Railways workshops in Ratmalana near Colombo. The entire project, costing about SLR 66 million (Rs 2.7 crore), is expected to be completed by end of this August. "It is India's desire to contribute to the efforts of the government of Sri Lanka in building up infrastructure in the province, so as to assure an early return to normalcy and stability in the lives of the people," the Indian High Commission said in a statement. To ease the congestion the Railway Department has decided to promote the rail bus service according to the instructions of Transport and Civil Aviation Minister Nimal Siripala De Silva. Already the rail bus service is operational from Trincomalee to Galoya, Batticaloa to Galoya, Chilaw to Puttalam, Anuradhapura to Medawachchiya, Kurunegala, Mahawa, Peradeniya to Kandy and from Maharagama to Kosgama. A rail bus service from Kandy to Matale will also commence parallelly. Though the bus service is functioning from every route rail bus service is a solution to the congestion. At times the trains are not running rail bus service is a great option for commuters while the low fare is also a boost for the public to use this service. Since the maintenance cost of rail buses is low compared to trains operating this service is profitable to the Railway Department. The rail bus service from Peradeniya to Gampola was started with the patronage of minister Nimal Siripala De Silva and Deputy minister of Mahaweli Development and Environment Anuraha Jayarathna. Minister De Silva said that this service was a request from the public.At present only 7 percent of the population travel by train. To popularize this service among the public the government together with the ministry will launch a massive development program. For this we have to create a attitude change in the workers as well said the minister.

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