Ministry of Social Empowerment and Welfare

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Ministry of Social Empowerment and Welfare
Emblem of Sri Lanka.svg
Ministry overview
Jurisdiction Government of Sri Lanka
Headquarters 1st Floor, Sethsiripaya (Stage II), Battaramulla, Colombo
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Annual budget
  • Rs. 68 billion (2016, recurrent)
  • Rs. 0.2 billion (2016, capital)
Minister responsible
Deputy Minister responsible
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
Website socialemwelfare.gov.lk

The Ministry of Social Empowerment and Welfare is the central government ministry of Sri Lanka responsible for social services and social welfare. 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 and Welfare and Deputy Minister of Social Empowerment and Welfare are S. B. Dissanayake and Ranjan Ramanayake respectively.[2][3] The ministry's secretary is Mahinda Seneviratne.[4]

Ministers

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

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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 100x100px United National Party Dudley Senanayake Minister of Social Services [14]
S. S. Kulatileke Sirimavo Bandaranaike [15]
Asoka Karunaratne 100x100px 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 100x100px 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 100x100px 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 P. Harrison.jpg 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 100x100px Sri Lanka Freedom Party 4 September 2015 Minister of Social Empowerment and Welfare [39][40][41]

Secretaries

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Social Services Secretaries
Name Took office Left office Title Refs
W. Yamuna Chitrangani 25 April 2010 Social Services Secretary [42][43]
D. K. R. Ekanayake 19 January 2015 Social Services, Welfare and Livestock Secretary [44][45][46][47]
Mahinda Seneviratne 8 September 2015 Social Empowerment and Social Services Secretary [48][49][50]

References

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