CORRECTION An error had crept into the concluding section of Eng. Parakrama Jayasinghe’s article, ‘Electricity tariff: A rational approach needed’, published on this page yesterday. The paragraph should have read as follows: “It must be accepted that the decision on final consumer tariff must necessarily be a national economic issue and thus cannot be left […]
While I was reading Dr B. J. C. Perera’s article, Railway Observation Saloons then and now, about the deterioration of railway service, my thoughts went back to the late 1950s, when I served the then known Ceylon Government Railways (CGR) for a few wonderful years. There were no Observation Saloons, but Restaurant Cars, run by […]