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Press briefing of Cabinet Decision taken on 2017-09-26
Improvement of the efficiency of the Railway operations through the introduction of the Global Positioning System (GPS) and providing train operation related information to the General Public
- The Cabinet has previously granted approval to improve the efficiency of the train operations by procuring a train operating information system based on the Global Positioning System (GPS). It has been proposed to further expand the use of the Global Positioning System (GPS) for the improvement of the efficiency of the railway operations to cover a wide scope by connecting Colombo, Anuradhapura and Nawalapitiya control centres of Sri Lanka Railways, preparation of train charts automatically, generating all train operation related reports, analyzing the train delay monitoring system etc; and to provide the general public with the train operation related information. As such, the proposal made by Hon. Nimal Siripala de Silva, the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, to obtain the relevant operating system from the Ministry of Defence for a sum of Rs.31.8 million, in accordance with the proposal put forward by the said Ministry, was approved by the Cabinet.