The Government handed over 54 reconditioned buses to the Northern Sri Lanka Transport Board at a ceremony chaired by Douglas Devananda, Minister of Social Services and Social Welfare, at the Jaffna Central College grounds.

Basil Rajapaksa, Senior Advisor to the President, said that it was the efforts by Minister Douglas Devananda that made it possible to get these buses down to Jaffna from Colombo to join the peninsula’s transport service. He was instrumental and the force behind in attending to the reconditioning of this fleet of buses, Mr. Basil Rajapaksa said.

Minister Devananda in return thanked the President and his senior advisor for extending fullest co-operation in this endeavour. The fleet of buses would strengthen and ease out the transport problems of the people in Jaffna to a very great extent. The Minister said that the vacancies in the SLTB Northern region would soon be filled.