{"id":89289,"date":"2019-05-24T15:51:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T22:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=89289"},"modified":"2019-05-24T15:51:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T22:51:24","slug":"appeal-to-retain-original-name-of-sri-rahula-maha-vidyalaya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/05\/24\/appeal-to-retain-original-name-of-sri-rahula-maha-vidyalaya\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal to retain original name of Sri Rahula maha Vidyalaya"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Media Secretary <\/strong><strong>Western Province Governor&#8217;s Office<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>COLOMBO-\nOld boys and well-wishers of the oldest Madiwela Sri Rahula Maha Vidyalaya,\nwhose name has been changed to Jaya Isura&nbsp;\nVidyalaya, have urged President Maithripala Sirisena to retain the\noriginal name of the school because of its historical and cultural\nsignificance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\ngroup of representatives submitted the petition addressed to the President to\nWestern Province Governor Azath Salley at a meeting held at Governor\u2019s Office\non Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a\nrequest made to the president, the group of old boys and well-wishers have said\nthat the original name of the school was changed by the former Chief Minister\nof Western Province Isura Devapriya in April this year.  The name of the\nschool was kept in memory of the founder of this institution,\u201d Ven. Nagasthenne\nAruna Thero, secretary of the People\u2019s Movement for Protection of Schools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nThero said that he would give the authorities seven days time to change the\nname of the school to its original name, failing which, he said future action\nwill be taken as a remedial measure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\nresponse to the representation, the governor said that he would take up this\nmatter with the president and would act accordingly. He recalled that he had\nissued a directive earlier that schools should not be labeled with fancy names\nunless the buildings are fully funded by philanthropists in memory of their\nbeloved ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Secretary Western Province Governor&#8217;s Office COLOMBO- Old boys and well-wishers of the oldest Madiwela Sri Rahula Maha Vidyalaya, whose name has been changed to Jaya Isura&nbsp; Vidyalaya, have urged President Maithripala Sirisena to retain the original name of the school because of its historical and cultural significance. The group of representatives submitted the petition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89289","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=89289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}