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Ministry of Industries (Sri Lanka)

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The Ministry of Industries[2] (Sinhala: කර්මාන්ත අමාත්‍යාංශය; Tamil: கைத்தொழில் அமைச்சு) is a cabinet ministry of the Government of Sri Lanka responsible for industry and commerce. The ministry is responsible for formulating and implementing national policy on industry and commerce and other subjects which come under its purview.[3] The current Minister of Industries is Ramesh Pathirana.[1] The ministry's secretary is Thilaka Jayasundara.[4]

Ministry of Industries
කර්මාන්ත අමාත්‍යාංශය
கைத்தொழில் அமைச்சு
Ministry overview
JurisdictionGovernment of Sri Lanka
Headquarters73/1 Galle Road, Colombo 3
6°55′10″N 79°50′56″E / 6.919315°N 79.848821°E / 6.919315; 79.848821
Annual budget
  • LKR 2 billion (2016, recurrent)
  • LKR 3 billion (2016, capital)
Minister responsible
Ministry executive
  • Thilaka Jayasundara, Secretary
Child agencies
  • Ceylon Sugar (Private) Limited
  • Consumer Affairs Authority
  • Co-operative Employees Commission
  • Co-operative Wholesale Establishment
  • Department of Commerce
  • Department of Co-operative Development
  • Department of Food Commissioner
  • Department of Measurement Units, Standards and Services
  • Department of Textile Industries
  • Elephant Pass Saltern
  • Hingurana Sugar Industry Limited
  • Industrial Development Board
  • Internal Trade Department
  • Kahatagaha Graphite
  • Lanka Ashok Leyland Limited
  • Lanka Cement Limited
  • Lanka General Trading Company Limited
  • Lanka Mineral Sands Company
  • Lanka Salusala Limited
  • Lanka Sathosa Limited
  • Lanka Textile Mills Emporium Limited
  • Manthai Salt Limited
  • National Crafts Council
  • National Design Centre
  • and 11 others
    • National Enterprise Development Authority
    • National Institute of Cooperative Development
    • National Intellectual Property Office of Sri Lanka
    • National Paper Corporation Limited
    • Paranthan Chemicals Limited
    • Registrar of Companies
    • SME Authority
    • SME Venture Capital Company
    • Sri Lanka Cement Corporation
    • Sri Lanka Handicraft Board (Laksala)
    • Sri Lanka Institute of Textile and Apparels
Websitewww.industry.gov.lk

The biggest government controlled wholesale and retail chain known as the Lanka Sathosa falls under this ministry. The acronym SA-THO-SA is believed to be derived from the Sinhalese name "SAmoopakaara THOgaveladhaam SAngsthava", i.e., Cooperative Wholesale Establishment.

Ministers

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Ministers of Industry
NamePortraitPartyTook officeLeft officeHead of governmentMinisterial titleRefs
Peri Sundaram19311935Minister of Labour, Industry and Commerce[5]
Claude Corea19361947[6]
George E. de Silva26 September 19471948D. S. SenanayakeMinister of Industries, Industrial Research and Fisheries[7][8][9]
C. SittampalamIndependent19481948[7]
G. G. PonnambalamAll Ceylon Tamil Congress3 September 1948[10][11]
19 June 1952Dudley SenanayakeMinister of Industries and Fisheries[10][12]
22 October 1953John Kotelawala[13]
Kanthiah Vaithianathan19531953Minister of Industries, Housing and Social Services[13]
William de SilvaViplavakari Lanka Sama Samaja Party18 May 1959S. W. R. D. BandaranaikeMinister of Industries and Fisheries[14][15][16][17]
W. J. C. MunasinhaSri Lanka Freedom Party9 June 1959[17]
W. Dahanayake
Maithripala Senanayake Sri Lanka Freedom Party23 July 1960Sirimavo BandaranaikeMinister of Industries, Home and Cultural Affairs[18]
Philip Gunawardena Mahajana Eksath PeramunaMarch 1965Dudley SenanayakeMinister of Industries and Fisheries[19][20]
T. B. SubasingheSri Lanka Freedom Party1 March 1977Sirimavo BandaranaikeMinister of Industries and Scientific Affairs[21][22]
Cyril MathewUnited National Party23 July 1977J. R. Jayewardene[23][24][25]
Ranil Wickremesinghe United National Party18 February 1989Ranasinghe PremadasaMinister of Industries[26][27]
30 March 1990Minister of Industries, Science and Technology[28][29]
C. V. GunaratneSri Lanka Freedom Party19 August 1994D. B. WijetungaMinister of Industrial Development[30][31]
G. L. Peiris Sri Lanka Freedom Party19 October 2000Chandrika KumaratungaMinister of Constitutional Affairs and Industrial Development[32][33]
Ronnie de MelSri Lanka Freedom Party14 September 2001Minister of Trade, Industrial Development and Rural Industries[34][35]
G. L. Peiris United National Party12 December 2001Minister of Industrial Development[36][37]
Anura Bandaranaike Sri Lanka Freedom Party10 April 2004Minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment Promotion[38][39][40]
17 September 2004Minister of Industry and Investment Promotion[41]
Sarath Amunugama Sri Lanka Freedom Party22 August 2005[42]
Kumara WelgamaSri Lanka Freedom Party28 January 2007Mahinda RajapaksaMinister of Industrial Development[43][44][45]
Risad Badhiutheen All Ceylon Muslim Congress23 April 201022 December 2014Minister of Industry and Commerce[46][47][48][49][50]
12 January 2015Maithripala Sirisena[51][52][53][54][55][56][57]

Secretaries

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Industry Secretaries
NameTook officeLeft officeTitleRefs
Tilak Collure25 April 2010Industries and Commerce Secretary[58][59]
Anura Siriwardana12 July 2012Industry and Commerce Secretary[60]
S. S. Miyanawala19 January 2015Industries and Commerce Secretary[61][62][63][64]
T. M. K. B. Tennekoon8 September 2015Industry and Commerce Affairs Secretary[65]

References

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