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Ministry of Social Empowerment, Welfare and Kandyan Heritage

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The Ministry of Social Empowerment, Welfare and Kandyan Heritage is the central government ministry of Sri Lanka responsible for social services, social welfare and Kandyan heritage. The ministry is responsible for formulating and implementing national policy on social empowerment and welfare and other subjects which come under its purview.[1] The current Minister of Social Empowerment, Welfare and Kandyan Heritage and Deputy Minister of Social Empowerment, Welfare and Kandyan Heritage are S. B. Dissanayake and Ranjan Ramanayake respectively.[2][3] The ministry's secretary is Mahinda Seneviratne.[4]

Ministry of Social Empowerment, Welfare and Kandyan Heritage
Ministry overview
JurisdictionGovernment of Sri Lanka
Headquarters1st Floor, Sethsiripaya (Stage II), Battaramulla, Colombo
6°54′10.10″N 79°54′57.40″E / 6.9028056°N 79.9159444°E / 6.9028056; 79.9159444
Annual budget
  • Rs. 14 billion (2017, recurrent)
  • Rs. 2 billion (2017, capital)
Minister responsible
Deputy Minister responsible
  • Anupa Pasqual , Deputy Minister of Social Empowerment, Welfare and Kandyan Heritage
Ministry executive
  • Mahinda Seneviratne, Secretary
Child agencies
  • Department of Divineguma Development
  • Department of Social Services
  • National Council for Persons with Disabilities
  • National Institute of Social Development
  • National Secretariat for Elders and National Council for Elders
  • National Secretariat for Persons with Disabilities
  • Rural Development Training and Research Institute
  • Social Security Board
Websitesocialemwelfare.gov.lk

Ministers

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The Minister of Social Empowerment, Welfare and Kandyan Heritage is a member of the Cabinet of Sri Lanka.

Ministers of Social Services
NamePortraitPartyTook officeLeft officeHead of governmentMinisterial titleRefs
T. B. Jayah26 September 19471950D. S. SenanayakeMinister of Labour and Social Services[5][6]
Kanthiah Vaithianathan19531953John KotelawalaMinister of Housing and Social Services[7]
1953Minister of Industries, Housing and Social Services[7]
T. B. IlangaratneSri Lanka Freedom Party12 April 1956S. W. R. D. BandaranaikeMinister of Labour, Housing and Social Services[8][9][10][11]
P. B. G. KalugallaSri Lanka Freedom Party9 June 1959Minister of Cultural Affairs and Social Services[12]
8 December 1959W. Dahanayake[12]
M. V. P. Peiris23 March 19601960Dudley SenanayakeMinister of Health and Social Services[12]
D. S. GoonesekeraSri Lanka Freedom Party28 May 1963Sirimavo BandaranaikeMinister of Labour and Social Services[13]
Asoka Karunaratne United National PartyDudley SenanayakeMinister of Social Services[14]
S. S. KulatilekeSirimavo Bandaranaike[15]
Asoka Karunaratne United National Party23 July 1977J. R. Jayewardene[16][17]
Ranjit AtapattuUnited National Party18 February 19895 January 1990Ranasinghe PremadasaMinister of Labour and Social Welfare[18]
D. B. WijetungaUnited National Party11 January 1990[18]
A. M. S. AdhikariUnited National Party30 March 199014 March 1991Minister of Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Social Welfare[19]
P. DayaratnaUnited National Party14 March 1991[19][20]
A. H. M. Fowzie Sri Lanka Freedom Party19 August 1994D. B. WijetungaMinister of Health and Social Services[21][22]
Milroy FernandoSri Lanka Freedom Party19 October 2000Chandrika KumaratungaMinister of Social Services and Fishing Community Housing Development[23]
Nimal Siripala de SilvaSri Lanka Freedom Party14 September 2001Minister of Health, Indigenous Medicine and Social Services[24][25]
Sumedha G. JayasenaSri Lanka Freedom Party10 April 2004Minister of Women's Empowerment and Social Welfare[26][27][28]
Douglas Devananda Eelam People's Democratic Party23 November 2005Mahinda RajapaksaMinister of Social Services and Social Welfare[29]
Felix PereraSri Lanka Freedom Party23 April 2010Minister of Social Services[30][31][32][33][34]
P. Harrison United National Party12 January 201517 August 2015Maithripala SirisenaMinister of Social Services, Welfare and Livestock Development[35][36][37][38]
S. B. Dissanayake Sri Lanka Freedom Party4 September 201522 May 2017Minister of Social Empowerment and Welfare[39][40][41][42]
22 May 2017Minister of Social Empowerment, Welfare and Kandyan Heritage[42][43][44]

Secretaries

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Social Services Secretaries
NameTook officeLeft officeTitleRefs
W. Yamuna Chitrangani25 April 2010Social Services Secretary[45][46]
D. K. R. Ekanayake19 January 2015Social Services, Welfare and Livestock Secretary[47][48][49][50]
Mahinda Seneviratne8 September 2015Social Empowerment and Social Services Secretary[51][52][53]

References

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