{"id":15089,"date":"2021-08-16T13:10:41","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T07:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=15089"},"modified":"2021-08-16T13:10:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T07:40:47","slug":"cabinet-memorandum-to-increase-rice-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=15089","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet memorandum to increase rice prices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trade Minister Bandula Gunawardena has submitted a cabinet memorandum on the 10th to seek cabinet approval to increase rice prices.<br \/>According to the memorandum, the price of red and white raw rice has been increased to Rs. 95 \/ &#8211; and steamed rice to Rs. 98 \/ -. Red and white samba rice has been increased to Rs. 105 and keeri samba to Rs. 130 \/ -. Earlier the control price of a kilogram of keeri samba was Rs. 120 \/.<br \/>The government is preparing to give cabinet approval to increase the price of rice at a time when people are facing a very difficult situation due to the increase in the prices of all commodities.<br \/>The government has officially worked out the price of rice in this manner despite the fact that it is being sold at a much higher price than what is being controlled by the government. Moreover, it is not available to consumers at a controlled price in any part of the country.<\/p>\n<div class='saic-wrapper saic-default saic-comments-closed saic-border' style='overflow: hidden;'><div class='saic-wrap-link'><a id='saic-link-15089' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=15089&amp;comments=0&amp;get=30&amp;order=DESC' title='0 Comments'><i class='saico-comment'><\/i><span>0<\/span> Comments<\/a><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-link--><div id='saic-wrap-commnent-15089' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-15089' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-15089' class='saic-container-form saic-no-login'><p>Comments are closed<\/p><\/div><!--.saic-container-form--><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-form--><div id='saic-comment-status-15089'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-15089' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-15089 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trade Minister Bandula Gunawardena has submitted a cabinet memorandum on the 10th to seek cabinet approval to increase rice prices.According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[106,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","category-smartphones","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}