The Sri Lankan Government is planning to extend the Yaldevi train service, between Colombia and Vavuniya, in northern SriLanka, to Kankasenthurei, near the coastal city of Jaffna in the northern province.
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Posted on: Thursday, December 04, 2008 ; 05:00 IST
Sri Lanka has shown interest in a railway link with neighbouring India via the north-western coastal Mannar island, which is located a few nautical miles away from India's pilgrim town of Rameshwaram, near the south Indian tip.
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Posted on: Thursday, November 06, 2008 ; 04:17 IST
Four more power sets (railway coaches), costing US$10.4 million, imported from China have arrived at the Colombo Harbour and will be added to the seven power sets already arrived in Sri Lanka to strengthen the railway service.
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Posted on: Saturday, February 16, 2008 ; 03:44 IST
The extension of existing rail link between Matara and Kataragama, to be undertaken by the Sri Lankan government at an estimated cost of US$300million, is slated to begin from April 2008.
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Posted on: Thursday, February 14, 2008 ; 04:34 IST
With a view to augment train services and offer a comfortable journey for commuters, Sri Lanka proposed to import a total of 35 power sets, including 20 from India and the rest from China, at a total cost of Rs10billion.
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A total of 25 new railway carriages, built in China, have arrived in Sri Lanka and another lot of 25 is expected to come by early January 2008.
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First fleet of around of 22 Chinese made new rail carriages out of a total 100, each costing Rs 22 million, are to be delivered to Sri Lanka next month.
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RPTL signs power pact with western region power utilities
Reliance Power Transmission (RPTL), subsidiary of Reliance Infrastructure, India’s largest private sector enterprise in power utility, has signed power transmission agreement with eight entities from western India for two inter-state power transmission projects.
RPTL signed the agreement through its two Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) for the projects under the Western Region System Strengthening Scheme-II (WRSSS-II), entailing an investment of INR18 billion, for establishing 400 KV double circuit transmission lines of around 1,500 kms, mainly in Maharashtra Continue
