{"id":50721,"date":"2017-01-10T15:43:32","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T20:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=50721"},"modified":"2017-01-10T15:43:32","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T20:43:32","slug":"4-rupee-commission-goven-to-sweep-ticket-agents-wont-be-increased-says-lotterie-board-chairperson-shermila-perera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=50721","title":{"rendered":"4 Rupee Commission Goven to  Sweep Ticket Agents Wont be Increased Says  Lotterie Board Chairperson Shermila Perera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Priyadhashana Liyanage<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chairperson of the National Lotteries Board Shermila Perera yesterday said that lottery agents would not be paid anything more than the current four-rupee commission. She said she would not give in to that unreasonable demand.<\/p>\n<p>She said that neither President Maithripala Sirisena nor Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe nor Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake had asked her to pay them a higher commission.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Asked whether the agents would be paid a higher commission, Perera said if the Lotteries Board was to pay the agents more it would have to close down.<\/p>\n<p>Last week the lottery agents struck work and launched a protest demanding a higher commission.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Island<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton50721\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D50721&amp;text=4%20Rupee%20Commission%20Goven%20to%20%20Sweep%20Ticket%20Agents%20Wont%20be%20Increased%20Says%20%20Lotterie%20Board%20Chairperson%20Shermila...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Priyadhashana Liyanage Chairperson of the National Lotteries Board Shermila Perera yesterday said that lottery agents would not be paid anything more than the current four-rupee commission. She said she would not give in to that unreasonable demand. She said that neither President Maithripala Sirisena nor Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe nor Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=50721\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;4 Rupee Commission Goven to  Sweep Ticket Agents Wont be Increased Says  Lotterie Board Chairperson Shermila Perera&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50722,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50721\/revisions\/50722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}