The Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) has launched this programon the 23rd of March 2009, exactly 53 years after the Yal Devi the popular train to Jaffna was first operated in 1956. The GoSL expects to make this a flagship project for rebuilding the country through rebuilding the vital Yal Devi Friendship Railway Track by making early plans for immediate construction to follow securing the northern areas.
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| Rebuild the country by rebuilding the Yal Devi Railway Track which will join the north and south together. |
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| To build a modern railway line that will provide fast, reliable connections for both passenger and goods transport between the northern parts of the country that have for two decades been alienated, with the south and to lay the basic building blocks for integrated transport solutions for rapid socio-economic development of the northern province. |
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Commencement of Yal Devi track Reconstruction |
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23.03.2009
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Expected date to complete the track |
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23.09.2012
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Percentage of time taken in date to complete the present progress of track |
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53.85%
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