Rs. 40mln loss due to UPFA rally-JVP

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The JVP today alleged that the Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) had incurred a loss of Rs. 40 million due to providing buses to the UPFA May Day rally.

JVP General Secretary Tilvin Silva told a news conference today that SLTB buses had been give on hire on a much lesser than the usual fee of Rs 65 per kilo meter. “Malpractices such as these have made SLTB a loss making entity,” he said charging that there are no funds in some deports to pay salaries to the employees.

The JVP further called on the government to suspend the bus fare hike and take steps to stop frauds such as reselling of Colombo- Jaffna route permits. “Persons who bought the route permits for Rs. 400,000 had sold them for Rs. 1.1 million,” the JVP said. (Yohan Perera)

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