MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT AND CIVIL AVIATION PROGRESS REPORT - 2018 7th Floor, Sethsiripaya, Stage II, Battaramulla I THE PROGRESS REPORT 2018 - PREPARED FOR THE BUDGETARY COMMITTEE STAGE - 2019 Prepared by: Planning Division Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation February 2019 II Contents Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation: Vision and Mission v Message of the Hon. Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation vii Message of the Hon. State Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation ix Message of the Secretary to the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation xi 1. Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation..................................1 1.1 Functions of the Ministry ...........................................1 1.2 Institutions coming under the Ministry.................................2 1.3 Towards a country with an effective transport service .....................2 1.4 New Railway Development Projects ..................................7 2. Sri Lanka Railways . 15 2.1 Introduction .....................................................15 2.2 Overall Analysis .................................................15 2.3 Performance Indicators ............................................17 2.4 Infrastructure....................................................18 2.5 Financial Progress ...............................................22 2.6 Challenges & Issues .............................................22 2.7 Projects implemented in 2018 and expected activities in future in order to enhance the quality and reliability of train service. ......................23 3. Sri Lanka Transport Board............................................25 3.1 Introduction ....................................................25 3.2 Duties of the SLTB ...............................................25 3.3 SLTB’s contribution for social benefit . 26 3.4 Operational Status ...............................................28 3.5 Progress Achieved through bus operations in the year 2018 ...............30 3.6 New policies and action to be taken to improve supply of services during the year 2018. .............................................31 3.7 Financial Progress ...............................................32 3.8 Development and Rehabilitation of bus fleet in the year 2018..............33 3.9 Infrastructure facilities ............................................34 3.10 Other Development Programmes ...................................36 3.11 Proposed Plan and Programmes for second half of the year 2018 and for the year 2019 .............................................39 3.12 Expectations for the year 2019......................................43 4. Department of Motor Traffic...........................................45 4.1. Inception and our trajectory ........................................45 4.2 Activities of the Department........................................45 4.3 Progress of Implementation of Strategies of the Annual Action Plan.........53 4.4 Progress of capital projects implemented on budgetary provision ...........54 4.5 Performance (2018)...............................................57 4.6 Expectations of Year 2019 .........................................59 III 5. National Transport Commission ........................................61 5.1 Introduction.....................................................61 5.2 Activities of the National Transport Commission and their progress.........63 5.3 Challenges faced in the year 2018 when the projects were implemented .....75 5.4 Expectation of the year 2019 .......................................76 6. National Transport Medical Institute....................................79 6.1 Introduction.....................................................79 6.2 Performance for the year 2018 ......................................80 6.3. Income and Expenditure status of the institute (Up to 31 November 2018)....84 6.4 Challengers in implementation of projects in the year 2018 . 85 6.5 Aspirations 2019 .................................................85 7. The Civil Aviation Authority of Sri Lanka (CAASL) .......................87 7.1 Introduction.....................................................87 7.2 Performance (January – December 2018)..............................87 7.3 Analysis of Financial Statements ....................................98 7.4 Prospects for the Year 2019.........................................99 8. Airport & Aviation Service (Sri Lanka) Pvt Ltd (AASL)...................101 8.1 Introduction....................................................101 8.2 Physical and Financial Performance during the year 2018 ...............101 8.3 Financial Performance Period from 2018 January up to December 2018 ....107 9. Lakdiwa Engineering Private Company Limited ......................... 111 9.1 Introduction.................................................... 111 9.2 Progress achieved during the year 2018 (physical and financial)........... 111 9.3 Infrastructure Facilities ..........................................112 9.4 Productive Programmes ..........................................112 9.5 Progress ......................................................113 9.6 Projects expected to be implemented in 2019..........................113 10. National Council for Road Safety (NCRS)...............................115 10.1 Introduction....................................................115 10.2 Objectives of the National Council for Road Safety ....................115 10.3 Functions and powers of the National Council for Road Safety............116 10.4 Role of the National Council for Road Safety in the year 2018 ...........116 IV VISION Sri Lanka ; To be the country with the premier People Centered Transport System in the Region. MISSION To use State of Art technology to implement, develop, and sustain world class transport infrastructure and services to enhance living standard of the people. V VI Message of the Hon. Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation “Let’s understand the past to create our future vision…..” It is, on the one hand, a rare instance that I am making my remarks about the last year’s progress of this Ministry, merely a two months after my being sworn in as the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation. I would like to mention that whereas it is a pleasure for someone to have the opportunity to announce the achievements related to the responsibilities that have been under him, it is particularly because of its relevance to the future tasks of the Ministry that this announcement of achievements is important to me. Provision of transport facilities should be of equal or higher priority in regard to provision of social infrastructure facilities as part of community development. I am of the firm belief that it is totally our responsibility to ensure sustainable provision of social welfare-related public facilities such as the Sri Lanka railway service, passenger transport bus service, services of the Department of Motor Traffic and civil aviation services, and to transform such services into conveniently accessible public services. In appreciation of the service rendered by the staff who served in the last year of 2018 and are currently serving at the institutions coming under this Ministry, I would like to extend my sincere thanks to them all. I wholeheartedly hope that this staff will join hands with me to deliver a more people-friendly service in this new year. I take this opportunity to express my gratitude to the Hon. Minister and the Hon. Deputy Minister and the whole staff, who carried out the challenging the task of diplomatically coordinating the staff of all institutions of this Ministry, trade unions and other various kind of social organizations during last year towards providing a public-acclaimed social service. I request all to cooperate with me to accomplish our duties, treating them not as officially assigned tasks but as the services rendered in the interest of the society. Arjuna Ranatunga (M.P.) Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation VII VIII Message from the Hon. State Minister of Transport & Civil Aviation….. “Towards ensuring an efficient transport system in the country...” I am delighted to offer my congratulations at this moment of publishing the Annual Progress Report of the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, and full of hopes for rendering the possible utmost service to the people through the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation in the coming years as well. The Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation comprises several institutions and it is known to all that this Ministry is delivering various services, operating very close to the people. It is not a secret that the institutions of this Ministry being so close to the people, various problems also arise frequently. I would like to recall at this moment with a sense of respect that in all such situations, every officer of the Ministry, from top to bottom of hierarchy acted towards easing those situations and providing uninterrupted services to the people, ensuring the least difficulty to them. Also, I wish to mention that in collaboration with the Hon. Minister, I am, as the State Minister, involved in making several major reforms in the Ministry to avert recurrence of the situations such as the above, and pursuing the prime objective of establishing orderliness in the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation and developing the transportation sector of this country to match up to the international standards, by regularly following up the progress of such initiatives. While we are, as the representatives of the political