{"id":117859,"date":"2021-09-06T15:52:07","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T22:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=117859"},"modified":"2021-09-06T15:52:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T22:52:07","slug":"govt-decides-to-suspend-another-walking-lane-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/09\/06\/govt-decides-to-suspend-another-walking-lane-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt decides to suspend another walking lane construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> The government has decided to immediately suspend the construction work of the proposed walkway near the Kantale Lake in Trincomalee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is reported that the monks, farmers, and political activists in the area have strongly opposed the walking lane project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of their main allegations was that the government was spending money on unnecessary projects at a time when the country was facing a pandemic and a serious economic abyss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the second walking lane that was suspended due to public protests during the ongoing construction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The walkway previously planned to be built along the Polonnaruwa Parakrama Samudraya had to be suspended due to strong opposition from local monks and farmers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The protesters demanded that the money for the walking lane project be spent on the construction of a dam on the Divulgaswewa which broke down a few months ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kantale Lake, the largest reservoir in the Trincomalee District of the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka, has a catchment area of \u200b\u200b83 square miles and a capacity of 135 million cubic meters. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News The government has decided to immediately suspend the construction work of the proposed walkway near the Kantale Lake in Trincomalee. It is reported that the monks, farmers, and political activists in the area have strongly opposed the walking lane project. One of their main allegations was that the government was spending money [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption-and-bribery","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117859","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=117859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}