{"id":124263,"date":"2022-04-12T16:19:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T23:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=124263"},"modified":"2022-04-12T16:19:41","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T23:19:41","slug":"government-expenditure-to-be-curbed-finance-ministry-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/04\/12\/government-expenditure-to-be-curbed-finance-ministry-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"Government expenditure to be curbed &#8211; Finance Ministry Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block wp-block-post-title block-editor-block-list__block editor-post-title editor-post-title__input rich-text is-selected\" role=\"textbox\" aria-label=\"Add title\" aria-multiline=\"true\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Finance Ministry Secretary says that they will issue a new circular to line ministries to reduce expenditure.&amp;nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Budget deficit has risen sharply due to high govt spending and lower revenues, therefore revenue has to be increased significantly and various methods will be introduced to achieve the target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News Finance Ministry Secretary says that they will issue a new circular to line ministries to reduce expenditure.&amp;nbsp; Budget deficit has risen sharply due to high govt spending and lower revenues, therefore revenue has to be increased significantly and various methods will be introduced to achieve the target.<\/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-124263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124263","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=124263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}