{"id":62928,"date":"2017-01-31T22:58:21","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T04:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=62928"},"modified":"2017-01-31T15:48:10","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T22:48:10","slug":"divulapitiya-alleged-sand-mining-racket-engineer-transferred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/01\/31\/divulapitiya-alleged-sand-mining-racket-engineer-transferred\/","title":{"rendered":"Divulapitiya alleged sand mining racket: engineer transferred"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Adaderana<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p class=\"newsDateStamp\">January 31, 2017\u00a0\u00a010:45 pm<\/p>\n<p class=\"newsDateStamp\">The Excavation Engineer of the Gampaha district has been transferred with immediate effect until probe in contact to alleged sand mining racket in Divulapitiya is concluded, Chairman of the Geological Survey and Mines Bureau Dr. Kithsiri Dissanayake said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"newsContent\">\n<p>The officials attached to the Geological Survey and Mines Bureau have also visited the site in Divulapitiya on Tuesday, it was reported.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Divulapitiya sand mining racket: engineer transferred\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LtGKvGKfvSw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Dissanayake said that further steps with respect of the case will be taken following the findings of the site inspection report.<\/p>\n<p>The state employees of the Gampaha district also resorted to a strike earlier in protest against remarks made by Deputy Minister Ranjan Ramanayake on the District Secretariat of Divulapitiya over the issue.<\/p>\n<p>The Deputy Minister has also charged that UPFA MP Indika Anuruddha and his family members are allegedly involved in illegal sand mining. I repeatedly challenge Anuruddha to sue me. I have enough evidence against him,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8211; See more at: http:\/\/www.adaderana.lk\/news\/38892\/divulapitiya-alleged-sand-mining-racket-engineer-transferred#sthash.yNl7xyVN.dpuf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adaderana January 31, 2017\u00a0\u00a010:45 pm The Excavation Engineer of the Gampaha district has been transferred with immediate effect until probe in contact to alleged sand mining racket in Divulapitiya is concluded, Chairman of the Geological Survey and Mines Bureau Dr. Kithsiri Dissanayake said. The officials attached to the Geological Survey and Mines Bureau have also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62928","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=62928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}