Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) has abandoned plans to cut jobs and a recruitment freeze which was to have been done by shutting down unproductive divisions of the firm.
The plan aimed at reducing staff to 3,500 from around 6,000 through its manpower restructuring method was introduced earlier in an effort to stem losses, a senior SLT official said.
Sri Lanka Airforce helicoptors and transport aircraft, with the end of a 30 year-long armed revolt by the LTTE, are being commissioned for a more lucrative and productive venture: Commercial passenger and cargo transport.
