{"id":73697,"date":"2018-01-12T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=73697"},"modified":"2018-01-12T16:01:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T23:01:00","slug":"slr-in-shady-move-over-new-rms-ttois-mod-quotes-rs-8m-for-adb-funded-feasibility-study-existing-rms-ttos-stands-neglected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/01\/12\/slr-in-shady-move-over-new-rms-ttois-mod-quotes-rs-8m-for-adb-funded-feasibility-study-existing-rms-ttos-stands-neglected\/","title":{"rendered":"SLR in shady move over new RMS\/TTOIS MoD quotes Rs 8M for ADB funded feasibility study Existing RMS\/TTOS stands neglected"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>BY Kavindya Chris Thomas and Ruwan Laknath Jayakody\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em>Courtesy Ceylon Today<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Despite there being a computer based Railway Management System (RMS), which has been rendered dysfunctional owing to neglect, the Sri Lanka Railways (SLR) intends to undertake a separate Rs 8 million quoted feasibility study&#8230;&#8230; this month, with the hopes of creating a new computer based RMS.<\/p>\n<p>The Train Traffic Optimisation System (TTOS), developed by former Research and Development Officer of the SLR, Anura Pushpakumara Kasthoori, had run for more than a year on the Colombo Fort-Matara line since its introduction in 2013. However, come 2015 and Kasthoori&#8217;s alleged forced retirement, the system had seen severe dilapidation due to the alleged sheer neglect and apathy of the SLR administration.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>What we need is a computerised easily accessible grievance record of grievances of Railway workers to prevent frequent strikes\u00a0 and an effective rail management system before anything else .You may have read a news item where Japanese Railway apologized to the commuters for laving a train 1-3 minutes before the scheduled time !.We should learn from this .<\/p>\n<p>Our Railway system is badly managed since British left, Tracks need improvement ,engines need revamping and painting ,rail wagons are worse than toilets ( there is an article in the Island today hoe bad the Railway toilets\u00a0 are )<\/p>\n<p>If the train system is developed as in India we will not be using cars to go to work .<\/p>\n<p>Railway Minister surely travelled in Indian Trains when he went to India on a Pooja and shaved his head and came back with a pitch black wig !<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY Kavindya Chris Thomas and Ruwan Laknath Jayakody\u00a0\u00a0Courtesy Ceylon Today Despite there being a computer based Railway Management System (RMS), which has been rendered dysfunctional owing to neglect, the Sri Lanka Railways (SLR) intends to undertake a separate Rs 8 million quoted feasibility study&#8230;&#8230; this month, with the hopes of creating a new computer based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sarath-obeysekera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}