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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
Formed1947; 77 years ago (1947)
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
  • Upali Pannilage, Minister of Social Empowerment, Welfare and Kandyan Heritage
Deputy Minister responsible
Ministry executive
  • TBD, 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.

Parties

  Ceylon National Congress   United National Party   Sri Lanka Freedom Party   Mahajana Eksath Peramuna   Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna   Eelam People's Democratic Party   National People's Power

Ministers of Social Services
Name Portrait Party Took office Left office Head of government Ministerial title Refs
T. B. Jayah 26 September 1947 1950 D. S. Senanayake Minister of Labour and Social Services [5][6]
Kanthiah Vaithianathan 1953 1953 John Kotelawala Minister of Housing and Social Services [7]
1953 Minister of Industries, Housing and Social Services [7]
T. B. Ilangaratne Sri Lanka Freedom Party 12 April 1956 S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike Minister of Labour, Housing and Social Services [8][9][10][11]
P. B. G. Kalugalla Sri Lanka Freedom Party 9 June 1959 Minister of Cultural Affairs and Social Services [12]
8 December 1959 W. Dahanayake [12]
M. V. P. Peiris 23 March 1960 1960 Dudley Senanayake Minister of Health and Social Services [12]
D. S. Goonesekera Sri Lanka Freedom Party 28 May 1963 Sirimavo Bandaranaike Minister of Labour and Social Services [13]
Asoka Karunaratne   United National Party Dudley Senanayake Minister of Social Services [14]
S. S. Kulatileke Sirimavo Bandaranaike [15]
Asoka Karunaratne   United National Party 23 July 1977 J. R. Jayewardene [16][17]
Ranjit Atapattu United National Party 18 February 1989 5 January 1990 Ranasinghe Premadasa Minister of Labour and Social Welfare [18]
D. B. Wijetunga United National Party 11 January 1990 [18]
A. M. S. Adhikari United National Party 30 March 1990 14 March 1991 Minister of Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Social Welfare [19]
P. Dayaratna United National Party 14 March 1991 [19][20]
A. H. M. Fowzie   Sri Lanka Freedom Party 19 August 1994 D. B. Wijetunga Minister of Health and Social Services [21][22]
Milroy Fernando Sri Lanka Freedom Party 19 October 2000 Chandrika Kumaratunga Minister of Social Services and Fishing Community Housing Development [23]
Nimal Siripala de Silva Sri Lanka Freedom Party 14 September 2001 Minister of Health, Indigenous Medicine and Social Services [24][25]
Sumedha G. Jayasena Sri Lanka Freedom Party 10 April 2004 Minister of Women's Empowerment and Social Welfare [26][27][28]
Douglas Devananda   Eelam People's Democratic Party 23 November 2005 Mahinda Rajapaksa Minister of Social Services and Social Welfare [29]
Felix Perera Sri Lanka Freedom Party 23 April 2010 Minister of Social Services [30][31][32][33][34]
P. Harrison   United National Party 12 January 2015 17 August 2015 Maithripala Sirisena Minister of Social Services, Welfare and Livestock Development [35][36][37][38]
S. B. Dissanayake   Sri Lanka Freedom Party 4 September 2015 22 May 2017 Minister of Social Empowerment and Welfare [39][40][41][42]
22 May 2017 12 April 2018 Minister of Social Empowerment, Welfare and Kandyan Heritage [42][43][44]
Daya Gamage United National Party 20 December 2018 21 November 2019 Minister of Labour, Trade Union Relations and Social Empowerment
Mahinda Rajapaksa Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna 1 June 2020 9 May 2022 Gotabaya Rajapaksa Minister of Community Empowerment and Estate Infrastructure Development
Ranil Wickremesinghe United National Party 21 July 2022 23 September 2024 Ranil Wickremesinghe Minister of Women, Child Affairs and Social Empowerment
Anura Kumara Dissanayake National People's Power 24 September 2024 18 November 2024 Anura Kumara Dissanayake Minister of Rural Development, Social Security and Community Empowerment
Upali Pannilage National People's Power 18 November 2024 Incumbent Anura Kumara Dissanayake Minister of Rural Development, Social Security and Community Empowerment [45]

Secretaries

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Social Services Secretaries
Name Took office Left office Title Refs
W. Yamuna Chitrangani 25 April 2010 Social Services Secretary [46][47]
D. K. R. Ekanayake 19 January 2015 Social Services, Welfare and Livestock Secretary [48][49][50][51]
Mahinda Seneviratne 8 September 2015 Social Empowerment and Social Services Secretary [52][53][54]

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