{"id":147425,"date":"2025-01-18T12:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T19:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=147425"},"modified":"2025-01-18T12:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T19:41:11","slug":"electricity-bills-reduced-by-20-from-january-17-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/01\/18\/electricity-bills-reduced-by-20-from-january-17-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Electricity bills reduced by 20% from January 17 &#8211; Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Energy Minister Engineer Kumara Jayakody announced that electricity bills have been reduced by approximately 20%, effective from midnight on January 17, following recommendations from the Public Utilities Commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a special statement made today (18), the Minister expressed optimism that the reduction will benefit all citizens, particularly the hotel sector and industrialists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He described the significant reduction as a major relief for the people of the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News Energy Minister Engineer Kumara Jayakody announced that electricity bills have been reduced by approximately 20%, effective from midnight on January 17, following recommendations from the Public Utilities Commission. In a special statement made today (18), the Minister expressed optimism that the reduction will benefit all citizens, particularly the hotel sector and industrialists. [&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-147425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147425","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=147425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}