{"id":138746,"date":"2023-12-04T18:25:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T01:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=138746"},"modified":"2023-12-04T18:25:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T01:25:01","slug":"harin-appoints-new-national-sports-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/12\/04\/harin-appoints-new-national-sports-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Harin appoints new National Sports Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Minister of Sports Harin Fernando has appointed a 15-member National Sports Council, replacing its former chairman Arjuna Ranatunga with Dr. Maiya Gunasekara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The members of the new National Sports Council are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Dr. Maiya Gunasekara \u2013 Chairman<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. Mr. I.U. Wickramasuriya \u2013 Secretary<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. Mrs. Sriyani Kulawansa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4. Major General (Retired) Rajitha Ampemohotti<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5. Prof. Arjuna de Silva<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6. Mr. Panduka Keerthinada<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7. Mr. Ana G. G. Punchihewa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8. Mr. Malik Kader<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9. Dr. S.V.D. Nanayakkara<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10. Mr. Hafeez Marso<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11. Mr. Sidath Wettimuny<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12. General (Retired) Jagath Jayasuriya&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13. Mrs. Anuradha Illeperuma<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14. Prof. Shemal Fernando<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15. Mr. Kamal Deshapriya<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the Sports Minister has also appointed the National Sports Selection Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The committee comprises of;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. General Shavendra Silva \u2013 Chairman<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. Mr. Arjun Rishaya Fernando \u2013 Secretary<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. Dr. Maiya Gunasekara<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4. Mr. Suresh Subramaniyam<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5. Mr. Nalinda Sampath Ilangakoon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Sports Harin Fernando has appointed a 15-member National Sports Council, replacing its former chairman Arjuna Ranatunga with Dr. Maiya Gunasekara. The members of the new National Sports Council are as follows: 1. Dr. Maiya Gunasekara \u2013 Chairman 2. Mr. I.U. Wickramasuriya \u2013 Secretary 3. Mrs. Sriyani Kulawansa 4. Major General (Retired) [&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-138746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138746","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=138746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}