{"id":1932,"date":"2026-05-29T05:01:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T05:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=1932"},"modified":"2026-05-29T05:01:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T05:01:43","slug":"transport-ministry-secretary-kapila-perera-decides-to-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/05\/29\/transport-ministry-secretary-kapila-perera-decides-to-resign\/","title":{"rendered":"Transport Ministry Secretary Kapila Perera Decides to Resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Kapila Perera, the Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, Highways and Urban Development, has reportedly decided to resign from his position.<\/p>\n<p>The decision follows a recent Supreme Court ruling which stated that Professor Kapila Perera had violated the fundamental rights of a senior official of the ministry.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, Professor Perera has already informed President Anura Kumara Dissanayake of his decision to step down.<\/p>\n<p>An official notification regarding his resignation has also reportedly been submitted to the Ministry of Public Administration, Provincial Councils and Local Government.<\/p>\n<p>Sources indicate that, after serving in the public sector for a long period, he decided to resign following the completion of his tenure.<\/p>\n<p>Before entering public service, Professor Kapila Perera served in the academic sector and previously held the position of Vice Chancellor of the University of Moratuwa.<\/p>\n<p>Ministry sources further state that, after resigning from the post of ministry secretary, he is preparing to rejoin the university service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Kapila Perera, the Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, Highways and Urban Development, has reportedly decided to resign from his position. The decision follows a recent Supreme Court ruling which stated that Professor Kapila Perera had violated the fundamental rights of a senior official of the ministry. According to reports, Professor Perera has already &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1934,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions\/1934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}