Ministry of Telecommunication and Digital Infrastructure

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Ministry of Telecommunication and Digital Infrastructure
Emblem of Sri Lanka.svg
Ministry overview
Jurisdiction Government of Sri Lanka
Headquarters 79/1 5th Lane, Colombo
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Annual budget
  • Rs. 0.1 billion (2016, recurrent)
  • Rs. 0.3 billion (2016, capital)
Minister responsible
  • Harin Fernando, Minister of Telecommunication and Digital Infrastructure
Deputy Minister responsible
Ministry executive
  • Nihal Somaweera, Wasantha Deshapriya
Child agencies
  • Department of Telecommunication
  • Information and Communication Technology Agency
  • Sri Lanka Telecom
Website mtdi.gov.lk

The Ministry of Telecommunication and Digital Infrastructure is the central government ministry of Sri Lanka responsible for telecommunication and digital infrastructure. The ministry is responsible for formulating and implementing national policy on telecommunication and digital infrastructure and other subjects which come under its purview.[1] The current Minister of Telecommunication and Digital Infrastructure and Deputy Minister of Telecommunication and Digital Infrastructure are Harin Fernando and Tharanath Basnayake respectively.[2][3] The ministry's secretary is Wasantha Deshapriya.[4]

Ministers

The Minister of Telecommunication and Digital Infrastructure is a member of the Cabinet of Sri Lanka.

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Ministers of Telecommunication
Name Portrait Party Took office Left office Head of government Ministerial title Refs
Mohamed Macan Markar 1931 1936 Minister of Communications and Works [5]
John Kotelawala 1936 1945 [6][7]
C. Sittampalam Independent 26 September 1947 D. S. Senanayake Minister of Posts and Telecommunication [8][9][10]
1952 Dudley Senanayake [10]
Mahanama Samaraweera Sri Lanka Freedom Party 28 May 1963 Sirimavo Bandaranaike Minister of Communications [11]
Anil Moonesinghe Lanka Sama Samaja Party 11 June 1964 [11]
Montague Jayawickrama United National Party Dudley Senanayake Minister of Public Works, Posts and Telecommunications [12]
Chelliah Kumarasuriar 31 May 1970 Sirimavo Bandaranaike Minister of Posts and Telecommunications [13][14]
Shelton Jayasinghe United National Party 23 July 1977 J. R. Jayewardene [15][16]
D. B. Wijetunga United National Party [17]
Alick Aluwihare United National Party 18 February 1989 14 March 1991 Ranasinghe Premadasa [18][19][20]
A. M. S. Adhikari United National Party 14 March 1991 [19][20]
Mangala Samaraweera Mangala Samaraweera.jpg Sri Lanka Freedom Party 19 August 1994 D. B. Wijetunga [21][22]
Nimal Siripala de Silva Sri Lanka Freedom Party 19 October 2000 Chandrika Kumaratunga [23][24]
Indika Gunawardena Sri Lanka Freedom Party 14 September 2001 [24][25]
D. M. Jayaratne Sri Lanka Freedom Party 10 April 2004 Minister of Post, Telecommunications and Udarata Development [26][27][28]
23 November 2005 Mahinda Rajapaksa Minister of Posts and Telecommunication [29]
Rauff Hakeem Rauff Hakeem.jpg Sri Lanka Muslim Congress 28 January 2007 December 2007 [30][31][32][33][34]
Jeewan Kumaranatunga Sri Lanka Freedom Party 23 April 2010 [35][36][37]
Ranjith Siyambalapitiya 100x100px Sri Lanka Freedom Party 22 November 2010 Minister of Telecommunication and Information Technology [38][39]
Harin Fernando United National Party 4 September 2015 Maithripala Sirisena Minister of Telecommunication and Digital Infrastructure [40][41][42]

Secretaries

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Telecommunication Secretaries
Name Took office Left office Title Refs
Asoka Jayasekara 25 April 2010 Posts and Telecommunication Secretary [43]
N. A. Athukoral 22 November 2010 Telecommunication and Information Technology Secretary [44]
Wasantha Deshapriya 11 September 2015 Telecommunication and Digital Infrastructure Secretary [45][46][47]

References

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