Cabinet of Ministers has approved the proposal made by Nimal Siripala de Silva, Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, to purchase 40-46 seated (2x2) high back 1000 new buses for the SLTB.
The new buses will be purchased halting the project of repairing 1000 SLTB buses, which has already called bids.
According to the Minister De Silva, the cost of repairing of a bus is closer to the price of a new bus.