Travel Touch card used in Colombo City

Travel Touch card introduce to Sri lanka in 2013 December.Last month i brought a travel card from promotion campaign in borella area.
It cost Rs 200 and it contains value of Rs. 200.you can topped this card in any shop which can reloads to  mobile phones.

Now it is famous among the private buses in colombo city.CTB government buses do not support this feature.

Once you given this card to conductor,he will touch it on his machine.Then it will generate the bus ticket.

It's a good solution for bus service.Because handing money in a bus is difficult.Nowadays most conductors has a less exchangable money.Most of them do not have Rs 1,Rs 2 ,Rs 5 coins.So this card is a suitable solution for handling coins issue on a bus.

Most of the countries now used this system in their bus service.But it's a new experience for Lankans.This system implemented by Dialog,famous mobile service provider in Sri Lanka. 

Hand over Torn notes/damage notes to Bank of Ceylon

In the day to day life you will received  damage/torn notes.Please do not pass it to another person by hide it as a good note.It's not a good practice.Please hand over it to Bank.

If you are live in Sri Lanka you can hand over it to Bank Of Ceylon.But if you are live in another country,then you have to refer the process your country banks follows.But in this article i am talk about Sri lanka currency notes.

It's a natural thing once people use the notes 5 or 6 years,they will be get damage.But some notes will runs more than 10 years.I am point out if the note get damage then you need to remove it from society ,Because people will not willing to take damaged notes.




Process you need to follow to hand over damaged notes to bank.

1. take a A4 sheet.
2. Place the damaged note in the piece of paper.
3. give few minutes to make them dry.
4. after that write your name , Account no , branch name and signature on the back side of that stick damage note.
5. Remember in order to do this process, you need to have a BOC bank account.
6. then count the value of these damage notes, and fill the deposit slip with that count.
7. go to the bank counter 
8. hand over these damaged notes to counter with deposit slip 
9. Then bank update your pass book against the damaged notes value.

Panamure Elephant

Panamure Elephant  is the king of the Elephant Group,who lived on Panamure jungle,near Panamure village,near to Rathnapura Town.Last few month I got a opportunity to read the book called Panamure Elephant.The author of the book was Piyasena Kahadagamage.I would like to share this elephant story in this blog.