Special transport service launched for the upcoming festive season to employees in investment promotion zones, the National Transport Commission (NTC) said.

Buses would be dispatched from nearby locations where the employees working areas without coming to Colombo, Nilan Miranda,
Director General of the National Transport said to the media.

The National Transport Commission (NTC) had deployed around 3,500 buses for the conveni
people traveling to rural areas for the Sinhala and Tamil New Year and also the Ceylon Transport Board says that another 200 buses will be added to the service in addition to the daily buses.

Apart from that, the Railway Department schedules special trains to Badulla, Jaffna, Kurunegala, Anuradhapura, Beliatta and other destinations from the 9th of April for the Sinhala and Tamil New Year.