India delivers 50 more buses to Sri Lanka

Colombo: India delivered fifty more buses to Sri Lanka at the Presidential Secretariat premises, yesterday as the Island nation celebrated its 75th Independence Day on Saturday. High Commissioner of India Gopal Baglay handed over the buses to Sri Lanka’s President Ranil Wickremesinghe.

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Leyland had bagged the contract for supplying 500 buses to the Sri Lanka Transport Board, of which 75 buses have already been delivered earlier this year. The order is a part of a Line of Credit extended by the Export-Import Bank of India, under the Economic Assistance Scheme of the Indian government.