{"id":59951,"date":"2016-10-20T11:57:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T18:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=59951"},"modified":"2016-10-20T11:57:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T18:57:46","slug":"president-to-spend-over-rs-10-million-per-day-reduced-allocation-for-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/10\/20\/president-to-spend-over-rs-10-million-per-day-reduced-allocation-for-education\/","title":{"rendered":"President to spend over Rs.10 million per day, reduced allocation for education"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>October 20, 2016\u00a0\u00a004:26 pm<\/p>\n<div class=\"bookmarkIcon\"><span class=\"st_sharethis\"><span class=\"stButton\"><span class=\"chicklets sharethis\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>The total expenditure of the government for 2017 according to the Appropriation Bill presented to the Parliament today will be over Rs.1819.5 billion (Rs 1,819,544,000,000).<\/div>\n<div class=\"newsContent\">\n<p>The total expenditure for 2016 was Rs.1941.4 billion and it is a Rs.21.9 billion reduction when compared to last year.<\/p>\n<p>The budget allocated for president\u2019s expenses has increased to the tune of Rs.6.45 billion. It was limited to Rs.2.3 billion in 2016. Therefore, fund allocated for expenses of the president would exceeded Rs.10 million per a day, Ada Derana learns.<\/p>\n<p>The total expenditure allocated for the Prime Minister is Rs.1.25 billion. However, Rs.0.4 billion was allocated for the Prime Minister through the last year\u2019s Appropriation Bill.<\/p>\n<p>The Defence Ministry allocation for 2017 is around Rs 284 billion, however, in 2016, Defence allocation stood at more than Rs.306 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Allocation for the Ministry of Education for 2017 is Rs.76.9 billion. However, for 2016, this amount was Rs.185.9 billion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adaderana October 20, 2016\u00a0\u00a004:26 pm \u00a0The total expenditure of the government for 2017 according to the Appropriation Bill presented to the Parliament today will be over Rs.1819.5 billion (Rs 1,819,544,000,000). The total expenditure for 2016 was Rs.1941.4 billion and it is a Rs.21.9 billion reduction when compared to last year. The budget allocated for president\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-106"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59951","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=59951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}