{"id":144984,"date":"2024-10-16T15:32:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T22:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=144984"},"modified":"2024-10-16T15:32:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T22:32:24","slug":"has-the-new-sri-lankan-govt-taken-over-rs-400-billion-in-loans-in-13-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/10\/16\/has-the-new-sri-lankan-govt-taken-over-rs-400-billion-in-loans-in-13-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Has the new Sri Lankan Govt taken over Rs 400 billion in loans in 13 days?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Oct 16 (NewsWire) \u2013 The government has received Rs. 419 Billion in treasury bills and bond loans, in the 13 days from 02-15 October 2024, former Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) Matale District MP Rohini Kavirathna said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Issuing a statement, former MP Kavirathna said the government is continuing to take unlimited loans, but the country is not receiving any tangible relief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former SJB MP gave the following breakdown of the government\u2019s loans between 02-15 October;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>October 02 \u2013 Rs. 142.2 Billion<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>October 09 \u2013 Rs. 85 Billion<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>October 11 \u2013 Rs. 95 Billion<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>October 15 \u2013 Rs. 97 Billion&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>She further said that in the last few days, the government has been spending Rs. 32.23 billion each, which means Rs. 1.34 billion per hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former MP called on the government to clarify what investments were made using these funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Oct 16 (NewsWire) \u2013 The government has received Rs. 419 Billion in treasury bills and bond loans, in the 13 days from 02-15 October 2024, former Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) Matale District MP Rohini Kavirathna said.&nbsp; Issuing a statement, former MP Kavirathna said the government is continuing to take unlimited loans, but the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144984","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=144984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}