{"id":79049,"date":"2024-06-06T19:30:37","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/?p=79049"},"modified":"2024-06-06T19:30:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T14:00:41","slug":"sri-lanka-eletcricity-bill-passed-in-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/2024\/06\/06\/sri-lanka-eletcricity-bill-passed-in-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka Eletcricity Bill Passed in Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Sri Lanka Electricity Bill was passed by a majority of 44 votes following a debate held in Parliament today (06).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the end of the debate on the Second Reading of the Bill, the Opposition called for a division. Consequently, 59 votes were cast against the Bill, and 103 votes were cast in favor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amendments were added to the Bill during the Committee Stage, and the Third Reading was passed without a vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This Bill was presented to Parliament on April 25, 2024, and aims to make necessary arrangements for reforms in the electricity sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sri Lanka Electricity Bill was passed by a majority of 44 votes following a debate held in Parliament today (06). At the end of the debate on the Second Reading of the Bill, the Opposition called for a division. Consequently, 59 votes were cast against the Bill, and 103 votes were cast in favor. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":78892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5,6,708,8,1605,7],"class_list":{"0":"post-79049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-news19","9":"tag-news19-lk","10":"tag-parliament","11":"tag-sri-lanka","12":"tag-sri-lanka-eletcricity","13":"tag-sri-lanka-news"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79050,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79049\/revisions\/79050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.news19.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}