{"id":147409,"date":"2025-01-17T14:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T21:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=147409"},"modified":"2025-01-17T14:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T21:29:10","slug":"electricity-tariff-revision-only-after-finance-ministrys-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/01\/17\/electricity-tariff-revision-only-after-finance-ministrys-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"Electricity tariff revision only after Finance Ministry\u2019s approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Energy Ministry stated that the proposed electricity tariff revision would be implemented only upon receiving approval from the Finance Ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) announced today that electricity tariffs will be reduced by 20%, effective from midnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the Energy Ministry stated that the proposed tariff revision would only be implemented after obtaining consent from the Finance Ministry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Energy Ministry stated that the proposed electricity tariff revision would be implemented only upon receiving approval from the Finance Ministry. Meanwhile, the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) announced today that electricity tariffs will be reduced by 20%, effective from midnight. However, the Energy Ministry stated that the proposed [&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-147409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147409","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=147409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}