Ten dilapidated buses repaired and refurbished by the state-owned Lakdiva Engineering Company Limited have been handed over to the Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) at an event presided by Transport and Highways Minister Dr. Bandula Gunawardena at the company’s site in Ekala, Ja-Ela yesterday.
The Minister gave instructions to the relevant officials to further expand the bus repair works carried out by the company as an urgent solution for the current shortage of passenger transport buses.
The Minister while commending the Lakdiva Engineering Company for an excellent job said that he hoped to widen the scope of the company’s activities to increase its revenue.
The SLTB Ekala Central Workshop was opened on March 14, 1974, on a 24-acre land and was renamed the Ekala Engineering Works on June 14, 1993, with a people-friendly concept. Many services including the repairing and refurbishing of dilapidated buses belonging to the Sri Lanka Transport Board are carried out by the company.
Among the other services, the repairing of bus bodies damaged by accidents,painting, repairing electrical systems in buses attached to the bus depots all over the island are done at more reasonable prices than the private sector.
Around 10 dilapidated buses are repaired by the staff including experienced technicians and handed over to a particular bus depot every month. Apart from this, vehicles belonging to Government institutions which have been damaged by accidents are also repaired at these premises.
In addition to SLTB buses, the company has also started to repair vehicles of Ministries and Government institutions and the Minister instructed the officials to take necessary steps to further expand these services.
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