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The history of Sri Lanka Transport Board goes back to 1 January 1958; at the time known as the Ceylon Transport Board (CTB). The inaugural trip of the CTB took the Prime Minister and the Transport and Works Minister Maithripala Senanayake on a maroon luxury Mercedes-Benz bus imported from Germany. The bus is still owned by the Nittambuwa Bus Depot.
The history of Sri Lanka Transport Board, the state-run, primary bus operator in Sri Lanka, goes back to 1 January 1958. The state-owned enterprise was at the time known as the Ceylon Transport Board. At its peak, it was the largest omnibus company in the world - with about 7,000 buses and over 50,000 employees. With privatization in 1979, it ...
Immediately after the nationalisation of the bus companies in 1958, the Motor Workers’ Union successfully concluded negotiations with the Ceylon Transport Board on many demands, amongst which was the payment of Government rates of cost of living allowances to the employees. However, both in 1961 and 1963 C.T.B. employees won further gains ...
Airport and Aviation Services (Sri Lanka) Limited; The Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd; B.C.C. Lanka Ltd; B.O.C. Bank; CTB BUS; Lynx BUS; Building Materials Corporation Ltd
Transport Board may refer to: . Auckland Transport Board Act; Barbados Transport Board; Bucharest Metropolitan Transport Board; Ceylon Transport Board; Commonwealth Land Transport Board, Australia
Minister of Transport [41] 14 September 2001: Minister of Transport and Environment Protection [42] [43] Gamini Athukorala: United National Party: 12 December 2001: Minister of Transport, Highways and Aviation [44] [45] Felix Perera: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 10 April 2004: Minister of Transport [46] [47] [48] A. H. M. Fowzie: Sri Lanka Freedom ...
Sri Lanka, [a] historically known as Ceylon, [b] and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean , southwest of the Bay of Bengal , separated from the Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait .
The 1958 anti-Tamil pogrom and riots in Ceylon, also known as the 58 riots, refer to the first island-wide ethnic riots and pogrom [3] [4] [5] to target the minority Tamils in the Dominion of Ceylon after it became an independent dominion from Britain in 1948. The riots lasted from 22 May until 29 May 1958 although sporadic disturbances ...