{"id":97704,"date":"2020-01-13T16:13:12","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T23:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=97704"},"modified":"2020-01-13T16:13:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T23:13:12","slug":"over-50000-unemployed-graduates-to-be-given-jobs-by-march-dullas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/01\/13\/over-50000-unemployed-graduates-to-be-given-jobs-by-march-dullas\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 50,000 unemployed graduates to be given jobs by March &#8211; Dullas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Ada Derana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Employment opportunities will be provided for over 50,000 unemployment graduates by 1st of March this year, says Minister of Education and Minister of Sports &amp; Youth Affairs Dullas Alahapperuma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He made this statement during a press conference held at the head office of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) today (13).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back in 2012, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa took a decision to provide employment opportunities to all graduates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the previous government had appointed a limited number of graduates as development officers under a strict criterion, says the Minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He further stated that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has given instructions to give job opportunities for unemployed graduates regardless of the type of their degrees, age, political affiliations and any other divisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the existing statistics, there are nearly 50,000 unemployed graduates, the Minister added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Ada Derana Employment opportunities will be provided for over 50,000 unemployment graduates by 1st of March this year, says Minister of Education and Minister of Sports &amp; Youth Affairs Dullas Alahapperuma. He made this statement during a press conference held at the head office of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) today (13). Back in [&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-97704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97704","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=97704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}