{"id":6654,"date":"2026-07-22T03:57:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T22:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/?p=6654"},"modified":"2026-07-22T03:57:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T22:27:55","slug":"peoples-bank-conducts-annual-dansel-for-kataragama-pada-yatra-devotees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/peoples-bank-conducts-annual-dansel-for-kataragama-pada-yatra-devotees\/","title":{"rendered":"People\u2019s Bank conducts annual Dansel for Kataragama Pada Yatra devotees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The People\u2019s Bank&nbsp;<em>Okanda Dansel<\/em>&nbsp;Committee \u2013 Ampara conducted its 25th Annual Dansel Programme on July 17, at the entrance to Kumana National Park in support of devotees undertaking the sacred Kataragama&nbsp;<em>Pada Yatra<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The programme was graced by the participation of Prof. Narada Fernando, Chairman of People\u2019s Bank. Among those in attendance were K.M.P.P. Kulathunga (Regional Manager \u2013 Ampara), M.M.A. Amarasiri (Regional Manager Moneragala), K. Kodeeswaran (Regional Manager Batticaloa), Senior Legal Officers, Assistant Regional Managers, Branch Managers and staff of the Ampara Regional Office.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of the programme, 1,000 dry food packs were distributed to devotees participating in the sacred Kataragama&nbsp;<em>Pada Yatra<\/em>, reflecting People\u2019s Bank\u2019s continued commitment to community service, social responsibility and the preservation of Sri Lanka\u2019s cultural and religious traditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: Daily News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The People\u2019s Bank&nbsp;Okanda Dansel&nbsp;Committee \u2013 Ampara conducted its 25th Annual Dansel Programme on July 17,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6656,"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6654\/revisions\/6656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}