No benefit to people from reducing petrol prices: School van Assn.

People will only benefit from lowering diesel prices, not  the price of petrol, several other organizations, including the All Ceylon Inter-Provincial School Van Transporters Association said.

The Association chairman, Ruwan Prasad said that though the prices of petrol was brought down, no changes to the price of diesel.

If the government takes any action to reduce the price of diesel, that concession could be passed on to the parents while considering any reduction to the school van fares.

"Now we are helpless. We were expecting that there would be some relief for us if the price of diesel was brought down, but it was not to be," Prasad lamented. (Chaturanga Samarawickrama)