{"id":145642,"date":"2024-11-09T15:19:40","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T22:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=145642"},"modified":"2024-11-09T15:19:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T22:19:40","slug":"president-dissanayake-pledges-30-electricity-tariff-reduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/11\/09\/president-dissanayake-pledges-30-electricity-tariff-reduction\/","title":{"rendered":"President Dissanayake pledges 30% electricity tariff reduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>President Anura Kumara Dissanayake announced plans to reduce electricity tariffs by over 30% in the near future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at a National People&amp;rsquo;s Power (NPP) public meeting in Dambulla today, he stated that the government is committed to creating a significant transformation in the electricity sector within the next one to one-and-a-half years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We will bring a massive change to the electricity sector and reduce the electricity bill by more than 30%. Give us some time for this, as well as for reducing fuel prices. We will make these changes,&#8221; he assured the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News President Anura Kumara Dissanayake announced plans to reduce electricity tariffs by over 30% in the near future. Speaking at a National People&amp;rsquo;s Power (NPP) public meeting in Dambulla today, he stated that the government is committed to creating a significant transformation in the electricity sector within the next one to one-and-a-half years. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jvp-promises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145642","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=145642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}