Sri Lanka Army has initiated a project for constructing of 12 new technologically sophisticated vehicle Service Centres inside country-wide Army establishments.

Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya, Commander of the Army yesterday (March 13) laid the foundation stone for the Army’s first-ever most modern vehicle Service Centre and the construction of a new administrative complex inside the Headquarters premises.

Each new Service Centre, valued at Rs 10 million, is to be equipped with state of the art sophisticated technical equipment. This is a novel concept proposed by the Army Commander, carried out jointly with Sri Lanka Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (SLEME) who have expertise to install those new equipment in these Service Centres.