{"id":118969,"date":"2021-10-07T16:27:50","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T23:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=118969"},"modified":"2021-10-07T16:27:50","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T23:27:50","slug":"govt-to-remove-price-controls-on-four-essential-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/10\/07\/govt-to-remove-price-controls-on-four-essential-items\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt. to remove price controls on four essential items"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The government has decided to remove the price controls on cement, LP gas, milk powder and wheat flour, says State Minister of Co-operative Services, Marketing Development and Consumer Protection Lasantha Alagiyawanna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision was taken during a special meeting between President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the Cabinet of Ministers held this evening (October 07).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The President has directed the officials not to allow room for unnecessary and arbitrary increases in prices, the state minister said further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The government has decided to remove the price controls on cement, LP gas, milk powder and wheat flour, says State Minister of Co-operative Services, Marketing Development and Consumer Protection Lasantha Alagiyawanna. The decision was taken during a special meeting between President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the Cabinet of Ministers held this evening (October 07). [&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-118969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118969","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=118969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}