Ashok Leyland bags order for supplying 630 buses in Sri Lanka

[Contrarian]

Ashok Leyland gets $17 mn order for supplying 630 buses in Sri Lanka



NEW DELHI: Hinduja group flagship company Ashok LeylandBSE -4.15 % has received an order worth USD 17 million (around Rs 104 crore) to supply 630 buses to Sri Lankan operators.

The company, through its joint venture in Sri Lanka, has received an order for 630 buses worth USD 17 million from private bus operators, Ashok Leyland said in a filing to the BSE.

Coming on the heels of the order for 2,200 buses, the company further consolidates its position as the market leader in the Sri Lankan market, it added.

"This order is further evidence of the confidence Sri Lankan customers have in our capability to offer the most appropriate products and transport solutions to them through our JV company - Lanka Ashok Leyland," Ashok Leyland Managing Director Vinod K Dasari said.

The JV with the government is a publicly listed company and has been performing very well for its customers as well as shareholders, he added. Ashok Leyland shares were trading 0.22 per cent up at Rs 44.70 apiece during afternoon session on the BSE.

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Ashok Leyland gets $17 mn order for supplying 630 buses in Sri Lanka - The Economic Times

 

[SledgeHammer]

Ashok Leyland buses and heavy vehicles are very good and long lasting, good purchase Sri Lanka.

 

[kaku1]

Ashok Leyland gets $17 mn order for supplying 630 buses in Sri Lanka



NEW DELHI: Hinduja group flagship company Ashok LeylandBSE -4.15 % has received an order worth USD 17 million (around Rs 104 crore) to supply 630 buses to Sri Lankan operators.

The company, through its joint venture in Sri Lanka, has received an order for 630 buses worth USD 17 million from private bus operators, Ashok Leyland said in a filing to the BSE.

Coming on the heels of the order for 2,200 buses, the company further consolidates its position as the market leader in the Sri Lankan market, it added.

"This order is further evidence of the confidence Sri Lankan customers have in our capability to offer the most appropriate products and transport solutions to them through our JV company - Lanka Ashok Leyland," Ashok Leyland Managing Director Vinod K Dasari said.

The JV with the government is a publicly listed company and has been performing very well for its customers as well as shareholders, he added. Ashok Leyland shares were trading 0.22 per cent up at Rs 44.70 apiece during afternoon session on the BSE.

Read more at:
Ashok Leyland gets $17 mn order for supplying 630 buses in Sri Lanka - The Economic Times

First train, track and now bus. In return what we receiving?

 

[The Great One]

First train, track and now bus. In return what we receiving?

 

[Gibbs]

First train, track and now bus. In return what we receiving?

Money.. $17 million at that

 

[Contrarian]

First train, track and now bus. In return what we receiving?

Money.. $17 million at that

If I recall correctly, the train track was India's developmental assistance to Sri lanka as a friendly nation, so Govt of India bore the cost for that.

This is a commercial contract between Ashok Leyland and Sri Lanka dept/company.

Happy to see Lanka investing in infrastructure.

 

[janith pasindu]

This is really bad news. those three wheelers and these Leyland busses ruining the environment as well as it does not bring decent looking to the country as well. no matter how clean the environment is no matter how those roads getting carpeted once these Busses and Three Wheelers are on the road, everything is gone. Government should import high standard luxury busses. look at other emerging economies, Malaysia, Thailand etc, you will only see Luxury Busses. really a bad move

We as the People saw enough of these things on the road, and expected more luxury Busses will join the sector, at least by Private Sector.., Transportation also need pick up its standard as Economy grow in to high Middle Income nation. get rid of those Three Wheelers and low standard Busses.

Look what these three wheelers and ugly Leyland Busses ruining the look of the country.. shit

When Sri Lanka can Manufacture Busses like these of their own, Why we still move to these garbage Leyland

 

[Bombaywalla]

^^ Ashok Leyland produces a large range of buses, from inexpensive yet supremely robust workhorses to low floor urban models, to luxury coaches; your "private bus operators" get what they pay for. Durable, inexpensive workhorses for the average joe, are what SL's bus operators demand, and that's exactly what they get from A. Leyland.

 

[Bombaywalla]

It gets on my nerves when people complain about something they have no clue about. You have only yourselves to blame for not having a proactive automobile industry for heavy & transport vehicles in your country (Micro only assembles chinese components on SL soil and that too in extremely miniscule numbers).

Some of Ashok Leyland's low floor city buses purchased by the SL govt. Please note: these are government purchases...

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An Ashok Leyland city bus does its duty on Galle Road, Colombo...

cc: Pathum1986

 

[janith pasindu]

@Bombaywalla

FYI the Double Decker bus that I have posted, was fully manufactured here in SL by Micro, not an assemble

 

[Bombaywalla]

@Bombaywalla

... yet your countrymen and government continue to purchase hundreds upon thousands of them year after year.

 

[Kloitra]

@Bombaywalla

FYI the Double Decker bus that I have posted, was fully manufactured here in SL by Micro, not an assemble

You do know that it is a case of corruption, by the company and govt officials? Problem was not with the bus, but cosmetics.
Chargsheet shows how CIRT slipped on plywood - Indian Express

It all began in July 2010 after CBI officials got a tip off that some samples of the marine plywood sheets used as flooring in the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) buses that had come to CIRT for tests were allegedly fraudently replaced with fresh plywood sheets after some of the them failed the fire-resistance test. Of the 90 buses supplied, some were used during the Commonwealth Games.

On July 12, 2010, a CBI team carried out a surprise check at the testing laboratory of CIRT. The initial check revealed that nine samples were replaced with fresh sheets. After primary scrutiny, the CBI filed a case on July 21 against officials of the CIRT and Ashok Leyland. Rajpal Singh, deputy superintendent of police and the investigating officer for the case, said, "As per standard procedure, Ashok Leyland would use the marine plywood boards in bus assembly only if it had clearance from CIRT after due laboratory test. At the Alwar Factory of Ashok Leyland, uniquely numbered stickers were affixed to the marine board sheets in presence of DTC staffers and Ashok Leyland officials after primary inspection. All officers present there used to sign the sticker. These samples, randomly taken out from a set of 10 pieces, were sent to CIRT for test."

 

[Azizam]

I have said this a long time ago. Those ugly-looking rusted buses and three-wheelers should be banned from central Colombo. It's a shame. Also the public transportation is heavily unorganised. Even introducing some of the modern buses hasn't done the job that it is supposed to do. I have seen videos in which the bus accelerates before closing the door. It should be regulated properly and new bus stops should be introduced and also it should be made illegal to stop the buses wherever the drivers want.