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Practice drivers’ commerce unions announce that the strike deliberate to be applied from midnight yesterday has been suspended, and due to this fact, prepare operations at this time will proceed as regular with none hindrance.
This commerce union motion was referred to as by the Locomotive Working Engineers and Locomotive Officers Affiliation. They ready for this strike in protest of the federal government’s choice to offer prepare driver coaching to twenty military personnel, along with the civilians chosen for driver coaching via a aggressive examination.
Nonetheless, holding a particular press convention final night time, Deputy Minister of Transport and Highways, Dr. Prasanna Gunasekara, acknowledged that steps have been taken to quickly halt the choice to offer the related coaching to military officers. The Minister emphasised that this choice was made with the intention of stopping a strike, as almost 450,000 college students dealing with this yr’s G.C.E. Abnormal Stage examination shouldn’t face any transport difficulties.
The Deputy Minister, stating that he strongly condemns this protest by prepare drivers, recalled the distinctive contribution made by the military to revive the railway division within the face of the current ‘Ditwa’ cyclone. Appreciating the assist offered by military engineers for about two months for the development of Bailey bridges, restore of railway tracks, and restore of prepare engines on the Ratmalana workshop, he additional acknowledged that it was initially determined to offer this vocational coaching to a gaggle of navy personnel to be used in an emergency.