{"id":961,"date":"2026-05-07T18:58:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=961"},"modified":"2026-05-07T18:58:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:58:27","slug":"steps-taken-to-address-postal-service-shortcomings-in-mullaitivu-vavuniya-and-mannar-minister-nalinda-jayatissa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/05\/07\/steps-taken-to-address-postal-service-shortcomings-in-mullaitivu-vavuniya-and-mannar-minister-nalinda-jayatissa\/","title":{"rendered":"Steps Taken to Address Postal Service Shortcomings in Mullaitivu, Vavuniya and Mannar \u2013 Minister Nalinda Jayatissa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Health and Mass Media Nalinda Jayatissa stated that necessary measures have been taken to address the shortcomings in postal services in the districts of Mullaitivu, Vavuniya, and Mannar, adding that the issues will be resolved in phases.<\/p>\n<p>He made these remarks in Parliament on Thursday (07) while responding to questions raised by Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi MP Thurairasa Ravikaran during the oral question session.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister stated that 142 staff positions have been approved for the postal service in Mullaitivu District, while 25 vacancies currently remain.<\/p>\n<p>In Mannar District, approval has been granted for 228 employees, with 32 vacancies reported.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Vavuniya District has 230 approved positions, but 56 vacancies still exist, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Jayatissa further stated that efforts to fill these vacancies have already commenced from December 2025.<\/p>\n<p>He also noted that action has been taken to address shortcomings in postal transportation services, and 10 lorries have been provided to improve operations.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Minister, these measures are expected to ensure more efficient and adequate postal services in the three districts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Health and Mass Media Nalinda Jayatissa stated that necessary measures have been taken to address the shortcomings in postal services in the districts of Mullaitivu, Vavuniya, and Mannar, adding that the issues will be resolved in phases. He made these remarks in Parliament on Thursday (07) while responding to questions raised by Illankai &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-961","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\/961","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=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":963,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions\/963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}