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We expect to re-create CTB - Transport Deputy Minister

Kegalle special correspondent

The masses in this country have placed a great responsibility in our hands and it is the bounden duty of the United People's Freedom Alliance Government to fulfil the needs of the masses and usher in an era of peace and prosperity, said Maheepala Herath, Kegalle District Parliamentarian and the Deputy Minister of Transport, at a rally held in Rambukkana town to accord a welcome to him, as Deputy minister of Transport.

We will accelerate development activities in Rambukkana area and to initiate these development activities the voters, in unprecedented numbers, have placed trust and confidence in us, Deputy Minister Herath said.

Referring to the public transport services, the Deputy Minister said that during the past two years under the UNF, the people underwent lot of inconveniences in their day to day lives, owing to the neglect of the public transport system, by the previous regime.

We shall not allow it to deteriorate further. The CTB created by late Prime Minister S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike in 1958, he said. He said that he will take all possible steps to provide a smooth transport system soon.

The CTB faced a deterioration in the hands of the past government, and now as the Deputy Minister of Transport he will create the former CTB and develop it to the status of a well established organisation, in order to provide better transport facilities to the people.

The Deputy Minister said that the present Government shall not privatise the transport system, instead it will resort to all possible action to improve the transport systems in all fields to provide more facilities and conveniences for the travelling public.

"We expect to re-create the Ceylon Transport Board for both the good of its employees, and the commuters," he said.

The public created a people's Government with a view to getting their needs and aspirations fulfilled and that this trust and confidence laid in as by the voters will be honoured by eliminating corruption, dishonesty and disorder that prevailed everywhere in the past two years.

It is the duty of the United People's Freedom Alliance government not only to get rid of frauds, and all types of corruption that some got accustomed to in the past but to trace all those people who were involved in those nefarious activities and bring them before the law and mete out punishment according to the laws of the country, and that there will be no pardon for those responsible for corruption and misappropriation of public property in spite of whatever positions they hold in lives, he said.

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