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All 'nearly perished' workshops to be restored by Anton Nonis The Transport Ministry, in an effort to revamp the Central Transport Board (CTB) to its former glory, is on a spree to restore all `nearly perished' workshops in the country, according to Minister, Felix Perera. As an initial step in this direction, the ministry will refurbish a workshop in Kaludewala, Matale which had remained defunct for the past eight years. Work on it is due to start Wednesday December 15. CTB chairman, Dr. I. S. Jayaratne said the workforce in the work site, had dropped to 32 from its initial number of 200. The balance workers had been detailed to various other locations in the CTB to make some use of them. Investigations had revealed that the drop in the workforce was due to a wholesale mismanagement of the workshop. It had a full complement of valuable machinery needed to turn-out `chassis' for buses. It has been targeted to produce 60 chasis per month. Though the place now has a lesser number of workers, the CTB yet has not decided to recruit personnel from outside. According to Dr.Jayaratne, the vacancies are due to be filled by transferring excess workers from other CTB depots. He said the workshop had already been updated through voluntary labour. Meanwhile, CTB vice chairman, Nihal Perera said that the Ekala workshop which was earlier under the CTB has now been taken under the charge of the Transport Ministry. It is too involved with the building of bus bodies at the rate of about 15 bodies at a time. |
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