{"id":105552,"date":"2020-08-16T14:49:30","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T21:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=105552"},"modified":"2020-08-16T14:49:30","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T21:49:30","slug":"minister-calls-for-assessment-of-damage-caused-by-paddy-storage-at-mattala-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/08\/16\/minister-calls-for-assessment-of-damage-caused-by-paddy-storage-at-mattala-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister calls for assessment of damage caused by paddy storage at Mattala Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Minister of Tourism Prasanna Ranatunga has called for a report on an accurate assessment of the damage caused by paddy storage at the Mattala International Airport (MIA) during the Yahapalana regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During a discussion on the upcoming plans of the airport, Minister Ranatunga has directed the report to be handed over to him within a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/adaderanaenglish.s3.amazonaws.com\/1597574952-Minister-calls-for-assessment-of-damage-caused-by-paddy-storage-at-Mattala-Airport-B.jpg\" alt=\"Minister calls for assessment of damage caused by paddy storage at Mattala Airport\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At the meeting, trade union representatives had pointed out to the Minister that the Airport &amp; Aviation Services Sri Lanka Ltd (AASL) had not yet made an accurate assessment of the damage caused by the paddy storage at MIA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chief Financial Officer of the company, too, had agreed that an accurate assessment in this regard was essential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Ranatunga has further stated that the Yahapalana government has neglected MIAwith the intention of causing a natural death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa assumed power steps were taken to turn MIA into an active airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Tourism Prasanna Ranatunga has called for a report on an accurate assessment of the damage caused by paddy storage at the Mattala International Airport (MIA) during the Yahapalana regime. During a discussion on the upcoming plans of the airport, Minister Ranatunga has directed the report to be handed over to him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}