Two women have been appointed scheduler officers at the National Transport Commission, the first time women have held the post in the Commission’s history.
They are among 18 officers recruited to the position, the Daily Mirror reported. Letters of appointment were presented at a ceremony held under the direction of the Ministry of Transport, Highways and Urban Development.
Deputy Minister of Transport and Highways Prasanna Gunasena attended the ceremony alongside NTC Chairman P.A. Chandrapala, the Commission’s Director General, board members and other officials.
The Commission said the recruitment is expected to strengthen its scheduling operations and support more efficient management of public transport services.
The NTC is the regulator responsible for inter-provincial bus services, and its scheduling function governs the timetables operators on those routes are required to run.
Timetable enforcement has been a recurring pressure point for the regulator, which has been rolling out a digital bus monitoring system intended to track whether operators keep to scheduled trips.
The Daily Mirror did not name the two women appointed, give their professional backgrounds, or say how the 18 posts were distributed across the country. No other verified newsroom had reported the appointments at the time of writing.
