{"id":134501,"date":"2023-05-22T15:11:43","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T22:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=134501"},"modified":"2023-05-22T15:11:43","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T22:11:43","slug":"fifty-new-passport-centres-by-end-june-e-passport-by-end-of-this-year-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/05\/22\/fifty-new-passport-centres-by-end-june-e-passport-by-end-of-this-year-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifty new passport centres by end June, e-passport by end of this year: Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>While establishing 50 new centres for the process of obtaining passports without delay by end June, it has been decided to issue e-passports by the end of this year, Public Security Minister Tiran Alles said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He told the media that 50 new centres at fifty District Secretariats will be established to collect photos and fingerprints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another five branches attached to the issuing of National Identity Cards (NICs) will also be established.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the new process of issuing passports will be introduced within three days, the Minister added.&nbsp;<strong>(Chaturanga Pradeep Samarawickrama)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/ZJ9pmQPsGL8\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror While establishing 50 new centres for the process of obtaining passports without delay by end June, it has been decided to issue e-passports by the end of this year, Public Security Minister Tiran Alles said. He told the media that 50 new centres at fifty District Secretariats will be established to [&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-134501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134501","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=134501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}