{"id":121999,"date":"2022-01-10T15:37:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T22:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=121999"},"modified":"2022-01-10T15:37:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T22:37:21","slug":"prez-scraps-state-ministry-held-by-susil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/01\/10\/prez-scraps-state-ministry-held-by-susil\/","title":{"rendered":"Prez scraps state ministry held by Susil"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has brought about changes in ministerial subjects in an extraordinary gazette notification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this exercise , the subjects and the institutions held by sacked State Minister Susil Premajayantha&nbsp; has been brought under the purview of Education Minister Dinesh Gunawardane. They are the National Education Commission and the National Institute of Education .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The president also scrapped the State Ministry of Prison Management and Prisoners\u2019 Rehabilitation . The institutions and functions of that ministry have been assigned to the Justice Ministry . Mr. Lohan Ratwatte was the State Minister earlier .However, he resigned from it following allegation that he forced to kneel down some prisoners held under the Prevention of Terrorism Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Central Cultural Fund that remained under the purview of the Ministry of Economic Policies and Plan Implementation has been brought under Buddha Sasana Ministry.&nbsp;<em><strong>(Kelum Bandara)&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has brought about changes in ministerial subjects in an extraordinary gazette notification. In this exercise , the subjects and the institutions held by sacked State Minister Susil Premajayantha&nbsp; has been brought under the purview of Education Minister Dinesh Gunawardane. They are the National Education Commission and the National Institute of [&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-121999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121999","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=121999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}