{"id":129834,"date":"2022-11-09T16:37:38","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T23:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=129834"},"modified":"2022-11-09T16:37:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T23:37:38","slug":"high-commission-of-sri-lanka-in-new-delhi-celebrates-diwali-felicitating-long-serving-staff-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/11\/09\/high-commission-of-sri-lanka-in-new-delhi-celebrates-diwali-felicitating-long-serving-staff-members\/","title":{"rendered":"High Commission of Sri Lanka in New Delhi celebrates Diwali\u00a0felicitating long-serving staff members"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>High Commission of Sri Lanka <\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>High Commission of Sri Lanka in New Delhi celebrated this year&#8217;s Diwali festival, felicitating its long-serving Indian staff members and with a family get-together that included the family members of both home-based and local staffs numbering around 150. The felicitation ceremony and the family get-together were held instant in the garden of the official residence of the High Commissioner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event was organized under the guidance and full sponsorship of the High Commissioner of Sri Lanka to India Milinda Moragoda, with a view to promoting camaraderie between the home- based and local staffs, and particularly to recognize and honour the services of Indian staff members who have served in the High Commission for more than twenty-five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this regard, five Indian staff members who have served more than twenty-five years in the High Commission were felicitated at the event. Notably, the High Commissioner, with the support of the Sri Lankan private sector, has made arrangements for these long-serving five staff members and their spouses\/ family members to undertake a visit to Sri Lanka with a five-night stay, and the announcement in this regard was made at the family get- together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was the second consecutive time that the High Commission celebrated Diwali felicitating its long-serving staff members. Last year too, it celebrated Diwali honouring five of its long-serving staff members and with a family get-together.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year\u2019s event also included distribution of Diwali gifts to the children and families, lighting of Diwali lamps and a dinner. As a special feature, a talent show with performances by the staff and their family members was also held, adding much colour to the celebrations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mrs. Jennifer Moragoda also joined the High Commissioner in distributing Diwali gifts to children and felicitating long-serving staff members. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High Commission of Sri Lanka High Commission of Sri Lanka in New Delhi celebrated this year&#8217;s Diwali festival, felicitating its long-serving Indian staff members and with a family get-together that included the family members of both home-based and local staffs numbering around 150. The felicitation ceremony and the family get-together were held instant in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129834","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=129834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}