{"id":5656,"date":"2019-03-06T11:24:13","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T11:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=5656"},"modified":"2019-03-06T11:30:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T11:30:50","slug":"sri-lanka-army-returns-nearly-20-more-acres-of-land-in-jaffna-to-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/sri-lanka-army-returns-nearly-20-more-acres-of-land-in-jaffna-to-owners\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka Army returns nearly 20 more acres of land in Jaffna to owners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sri Lanka Army has released another 20 acres of land in Jaffna, used by the Army for service requirements on Monday on the account of Maha Shiva Rathri day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Army has released a total of 19.72 acres in Myliddy north and east inside the Palaly Army Cantonment and a portion adjoining it on Monday. A small portion (0.25 acres) of the released land in Myliddy belongs to the State while the remainder is owned by private owners.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Major General Dharshana Hettiarachchi, Commander, Security Forces &#8211; Jaffna, symbolizing the formal release of the lands, handed over relevant documents to the District Secretary for Jaffna, N. Vethanayahan in the presence of State officials and land owners during a simple symbolic ceremony held at the Thelippalai Divisional Secretariat on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Army on the directions of the Commander of the Army and the President has been in the practice of releasing private and State lands in the past 2 &#8211; 3 years with the objective of strengthening bonds of goodwill, reconciliation and ethnic harmony and relations with Security Forces serving those areas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka Army has released another 20 acres of land in Jaffna, used by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}