{"id":117840,"date":"2021-09-05T15:35:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T22:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=117840"},"modified":"2021-09-05T15:35:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-05T22:35:13","slug":"parakrama-samudra-jogging-track-project-halted-irrigation-dg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/09\/05\/parakrama-samudra-jogging-track-project-halted-irrigation-dg\/","title":{"rendered":"Parakrama Samudra jogging track project halted: Irrigation DG"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Irrigation Department today decided to suspend the project to construct a jogging track on the breakwater of the ancient Parakrama Samudra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Department&#8217;s Director General K.D.N.Siriwardana told the Daily Mirror that if there is no agreement with the opposed parties, we will repair the damage caused to the breakwater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several parties across the Polonnaruwa District paid their visit to the construction site on Friday to witness the destruction caused to an ancient water conservation system, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, it was reported that the breakwater of the historic Parakrama Samudraya was destroyed by the use of heavy machinery, including backhoes, to construct a jogging track.&nbsp;<em><strong>(Chaturanga Samarawickrame)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Irrigation Department today decided to suspend the project to construct a jogging track on the breakwater of the ancient Parakrama Samudra. Department&#8217;s Director General K.D.N.Siriwardana told the Daily Mirror that if there is no agreement with the opposed parties, we will repair the damage caused to the breakwater. Several parties [&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-117840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117840","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=117840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}