{"id":51475,"date":"2016-01-26T16:08:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T23:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=51475"},"modified":"2016-01-26T16:08:38","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T23:08:38","slug":"devil-has-consumed-even-before-the-offering-pudana-kotama-kapi-yaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/01\/26\/devil-has-consumed-even-before-the-offering-pudana-kotama-kapi-yaka\/","title":{"rendered":"DEVIL HAS CONSUMED EVEN BEFORE THE OFFERING ( Pudana kotama Kapi Yaka)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>We all read the news about a powerful minister in the government taking legal action and securing a court injunction against\u00a0 Megapolis Minister ,for trying to acquire his land for development purposes<\/p>\n<p>On 29<sup>th<\/sup> January Megapolis Minister is planning to make the Grand Megapolis Development plan public ,with grandiose program to develop the western province and other towns<\/p>\n<p>I predict that there will be more and more discontent against acquisition of\u00a0 land for public purposes and there will be more and more legal action against the minister<\/p>\n<p>This is not a good sign before even launching the plan to public<\/p>\n<p>Any Megapolis development\u00a0 need public consultation with\u00a0 tangible benefits to be presented which should over weigh losses to public in losing valuable land during acquisition\u00a0\u00a0 of\u00a0 land<\/p>\n<p>I suggest that Megpaolis should first concentrate solving traffic problem\u00a0 and public transport issues\u00a0 and show the public that Megpolis plan is a workable program and beneficial to public and then move to acquire private lands for town development<\/p>\n<p>Let us wait until, and after 29<sup>th<\/sup> February and see how Harward Educated managers plan to implement the program\u00a0 !<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera We all read the news about a powerful minister in the government taking legal action and securing a court injunction against\u00a0 Megapolis Minister ,for trying to acquire his land for development purposes On 29th January Megapolis Minister is planning to make the Grand Megapolis Development plan public ,with grandiose program to develop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51475","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=51475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}