Dokument #1000498
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
Information on this organization is scarce
among the sources consulted by the DIRB.
According to The Europa World Year Book
1995, the Sri Lanka Central Transport Board (SLCTB) was founded
in 1958 and is a "nationalized organization responsible for road
passenger transport services consisting of a central transport
board and 10 regional transport boards" (1995, 2850).
The Encyclopedia of the Third World
attachment, however, states that the state-owned Sri Lanka
Transport Corporation has a "monopoly of road and bus
transportation" (1992, 1790).
According to the 1990 Sri Lanka: A
Country Study attachment the Ceylon Transport Board was the
sole organization in charge of providing public passenger road
transport from 1957 to 1978 (1990, 147). In 1978, when private
buses were permitted to operate once more, it was replaced by the
Sri Lanka Transport Board and nine regional boards (ibid.). Please
consult this attachment for further information.
For the following information, please
consult: Reuters of 13 July 1989 on a strike called by the Central
Transport Board Joint Action Front; Xinhua of 17 December 1988 on
buses made available by the SLCTB for work connected with the
presidential election of 19 December 1988; Xinhua of 22 January
1987 on security measures implemented by the SLCTB; and
Financial Times of 19 June 1984 on a SLCTB contract for 200
buses that was won by Lanka Ashok Leylandu, an India-Sri Lanka
joint venture company.
This Response was prepared after
researching publicly accessible information currently available to
the DIRB within time constraints. This Response is not, and does
not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular
claim to refugee status or asylum. Please find below the list of
additional sources consulted in researching this Information
Request.
References
Encyclopedia of the Third World.
1992. 4th ed. Vol. 3. Edited by George Thomas Kurian. New York:
Facts on File.
The Europa World Year Book 1995.
1995. 36th ed. Vol. 2. London: Europa Publications.
Sri Lanka: A Country Study. 1990.
2nd ed. Edited by Russell R. Ross and Andrea Matles Savada.
Washington, DC: Secretary of the Army.
Attachments
Encyclopedia of the Third World.
1992. 4th ed. Vol. 3. Edited by George Thomas Kurian. New York:
Facts on File, p. 1790.
The Europa World Year Book 1995.
1995. 36th ed. Vol. 2. London: Europa Publications, p. 2850.
Financial Times [London]. 19 June
1984. R.C. Murthy. "Ashok Leyland Earnings Down by 35.5%."
(NEXIS)
Reuters. 13 July 1989. AM Cycle. Feizal
Samath. "Fifty Thousand Bus Workers Call Off Sri Lankan Strike."
(NEXIS)
Sri Lanka: A Country Study. 1990.
2nd ed. Edited by Russell R. Ross and Andrea Matles Savada.
Washington, DC: Secretary of the Army, p. 147.
The Xinhua General Overseas News
Service. 17 December 1988. "Sri Lanka Ready for Presidential
Election." (NEXIS)
_____. 22 January 1987. "Bus-by-Bus
Check on Baggage in Sri Lanka." (NEXIS)
Additional Sources Consulted
Encyclopedia of the Third World.
1992.
International Directory of Government
1995. 1995.
On-line search of media sources.
Oral sources.