Employee shortage to severely affect train services

 

Several train journeys will have to be cancelled in near future due to the existing employee vacancies, the Deputy General Manager of Railways, Gamini Seneviratne says. 

The General Manager also expressed that already several trains are being cancelled due to the lack of railway guards, claiming that even now the railway services are being conducted with a considerable shortage of operational staff. 

“The vacancies will be doubled in the future due to the compulsory retirement age limit and then the existing trains will have to be confined to a large extent”, the lawmaker stated further.