Ministry of Housing and Construction (Sri Lanka)

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Ministry of Housing and Construction
Emblem of Sri Lanka.svg
Ministry overview
Jurisdiction Government of Sri Lanka
Headquarters 2nd Floor, Sethsiripaya, Battaramulla, Colombo
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Annual budget
  • Rs. 0.7 billion (2016, recurrent)
  • Rs. 2 billion (2016, capital)
Minister responsible
Deputy Minister responsible
Ministry executive
  • W. K. K. Athukorala, Secretary
Child agencies
  • Building Materials Corporation
  • Centre for Housing Planning and Building
  • Condominium Management Authority (Common Amenities Board)
  • Construction Industry Development Authority
  • Department of Buildings
  • Devco Showa (Private) Limited
  • Government Factory
  • National Equipment and Machinery Organization
  • National Housing Development Authority
  • State Development and Construction Corporation
  • State Engineering Corporation
  • Urban Settlement Development Authority
Website houseconmin.gov.lk

The Ministry of Housing and Construction is the central government ministry of Sri Lanka responsible for housing and construction. The ministry is responsible for formulating and implementing national policy on housing and construction and other subjects which come under its purview.[1] The current Minister of Housing and Construction and Deputy Minister of Housing and Construction are Sajith Premadasa and Indika Bandaranaike respectively.[2][3] The ministry's secretary is W. K. K. Athukorala.[4]

Ministers

The Minister of Housing and Construction is a member of the Cabinet of Sri Lanka.

Ministers of Housing
Name Portrait Party Took office Left office Head of government Ministerial title Refs
Kanthiah Vaithianathan 1953 1953 John Kotelawala Minister of Housing and Social Services [5]
1953 Minister of Industries, Housing and Social Services [5]
T. B. Ilangaratne Sri Lanka Freedom Party 12 April 1956 S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike Minister of Labour, Housing and Social Services [6][7][8][9]
Vimala Wijewardene Sri Lanka Freedom Party 9 June 1959 Minister of Local Government and Housing [10]
21 November 1959 W. Dahanayake
M. B. W. Mediwake Sri Lanka Freedom Party
J. R. Jayewardene Junius Richard Jayawardana (1906-1996).jpg United National Party 23 March 1960 1960 Dudley Senanayake [10]
Mahanama Samaraweera Sri Lanka Freedom Party 23 July 1960 Sirimavo Bandaranaike [11]
Badi-ud-din Mahmud 28 May 1963 Minister of Health and Housing [12]
M. H. Mohamed United National Party March 1965 Dudley Senanayake Minister of Labour, Employment and Housing [13][14]
Pieter Keuneman Communist Party 31 May 1970 February 1977 Sirimavo Bandaranaike Minister of Housing and Construction [15][16][17]
Ranasinghe Premadasa United National Party 23 July 1977 J. R. Jayewardene Minister of Local Government, Housing and Construction [18][19][20]
Sirisena Cooray United National Party 18 February 1989 Ranasinghe Premadasa Minister of Housing and Construction [21][22][23]
Nimal Siripala de Silva Sri Lanka Freedom Party 19 August 1994 D. B. Wijetunga Minister of Housing, Construction and Public Utilities [24][25]
Mangala Samaraweera Mangala Samaraweera.jpg Sri Lanka Freedom Party 4 September 2001 Chandrika Kumaratunga Minister of Urban Development, Public Utilities, Housing and Sports [26][27]
Arumugam Thondaman Ceylon Workers' Congress 12 December 2001 Minister of Housing and Plantation Infrastructure [28][29]
Ferial Ashraff 100x100px National Unity Alliance 10 April 2004 Minister of Housing and Construction Industry, Eastern Province Education and Irrigation Development [30][31][32]
23 November 2005 Mahinda Rajapaksa Minister of Housing and Construction [33]
28 January 2007 Minister of Housing and Common Amenities [34][35][36]
Wimal Weerawansa 100x100px National Freedom Front 23 April 2010 Minister of Construction, Engineering Services, Housing and Common Amenities [37][38][39][40]
Sajith Premadasa Sajith Premadasa.jpg United National Party 12 January 2015 17 August 2015 Maithripala Sirisena Minister of Housing and Samurdhi [41][42][43][44]
4 September 2015 Minister of Housing and Construction [45][46][47]

Secretaries

Housing Secretaries
Name Took office Left office Title Refs
Nissanka N. Wijeratne 25 April 2010 Construction, Engineering Services, Housing and Common Amenities Secretary [48]
S. M. G. Jayaratne 22 November 2010 Construction, Engineering Services, Housing and Common Amenities Secretary [49]
P. H. L. W. Perera 12 July 2012 Construction, Engineering Services, Housing and Common Amenities Secretary [50]
W. K. K. Athukorala 8 September 2015 Housing and Construction Secretary [51][52][53]

References

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