{"id":68738,"date":"2017-08-10T14:53:36","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T21:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=68738"},"modified":"2017-08-10T14:53:36","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T21:53:36","slug":"mattala-airport-to-be-leased-to-indian-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/08\/10\/mattala-airport-to-be-leased-to-indian-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Mattala Airport to be leased to Indian company"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Kelum Bandara Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Soon after the agreement to lease the Hambantota Port to a Chinese company, the government yesterday sought Cabinet approval for a 40-year lease of the Mattala International Airport to an Indian company.<\/p>\n<p>The Cabinet paper was presented by Transport and Civil Aviation Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva.<\/p>\n<p>An Indian company had made a bid to develop the airport which built under the previous regime with financial assistance from China.<\/p>\n<p>The airport and the harbour are in close proximity to each other.\u00a0<strong>()<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelum Bandara Courtesy The Daily Mirror Soon after the agreement to lease the Hambantota Port to a Chinese company, the government yesterday sought Cabinet approval for a 40-year lease of the Mattala International Airport to an Indian company. The Cabinet paper was presented by Transport and Civil Aviation Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva. An Indian [&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-68738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68738","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=68738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}