Ministry of Home Affairs (Sri Lanka)

Ministry of Home Affairs

Ministry overview
Jurisdiction	Government of Sri Lanka
Headquarters	Independence Square, Colombo 07 6°54′13.00″N 79°52′09.50″E / 6.9036111°N 79.8693056°ECoordinates: 6°54′13.00″N 79°52′09.50″E / 6.9036111°N 79.8693056°E
Annual budget	Rs. 27 billion (2016, recurrent) Rs. 5 billion (2016, capital)
Minister responsible	Vajira Abeywardena, Minister of Home Affairs
Deputy Minister responsible	Nimal Lanza, Deputy Minister of Home Affairs
Ministry executive	J. J. Rathnasiri, Secretary
Child Ministry	Department of Registrar General
Website	pubad.gov.lk

The Ministry of Home Affairs is the central government ministry of Sri Lanka responsible for public administration. The ministry is responsible for formulating and implementing national policy on home affairs and other subjects which come under its purview.^[1] The ministry manages the country's Byzantine administrative service including District Secretaries, Divisional Secretaries and Grama Niladhari (village officers). The current Minister of Home Affairs and Deputy Minister of Home Affairs are Vajira Abeywardena and Nimal Lanza respectively.^[2][3] The ministry's secretary is J. J. Rathnasiri.^[4]

Ministers

The Minister of Home Affairs is a member of the Cabinet of Sri Lanka.

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Ministers of Home Affairs

Name		Portrait	Party	Took office	Left office	Head of government		Ministerial title	Refs
	Jayatilaka, Don BaronDon Baron Jayatilaka			1931	1942			Minister of Home Affairs	[5][6]
	Mahadeva, ArunachalamArunachalam Mahadeva			1942	1946				[7][8]
	Goonetilleke, OliverOliver Goonetilleke			26 September 1947			Senanayake, D. S.D. S. Senanayake	Minister of Home Affairs and Rural Development	[9][10]
				1952			Senanayake, DudleyDudley Senanayake
	Ratnayake, A.A. Ratnayake							Minister of Home Affairs	[11]
				1953			Kotelawala, JohnJohn Kotelawala		[12]
	Jayasuriya, A. P.A. P. Jayasuriya			12 April 1956	June 1959		Bandaranaike, S. W. R. D.S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike		[13][14]
	Ilangaratne, T. B.T. B. Ilangaratne		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	26 September 1959	8 December 1959		Dahanayake, W.W. Dahanayake		[15]
	Kaleel, M. C. M.M. C. M. Kaleel		United National Party	23 March 1960	1960		Senanayake, DudleyDudley Senanayake	Minister of Home Affairs and Rural Development	[15][16]
	Senanayake, MaithripalaMaithripala Senanayake		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	23 July 1960			Bandaranaike, SirimavoSirimavo Bandaranaike	Minister of Industries, Home and Cultural Affairs	[17][18]
	Dahanayake, W.W. Dahanayake		Sri Lanka Freedom Socialist Party	March 1965			Senanayake, DudleyDudley Senanayake	Minister of Home Affairs	[19][20]
	Bandaranaike, Felix DiasFelix Dias Bandaranaike		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	31 May 1970			Bandaranaike, SirimavoSirimavo Bandaranaike	Minister of Public Administration, Local Government and Home Affairs	[21][22]
	Ilangaratne, T. B.T. B. Ilangaratne		Sri Lanka Freedom Party					Minister of Public Administration and Home Affairs	[23]
	Jayawickrama, MontagueMontague Jayawickrama		United National Party	23 July 1977			Jayewardene, J. R.J. R. Jayewardene		[24]
	Devanayakam, K. W.K. W. Devanayakam		United National Party	14 February 1980				Minister of Home Affairs	[25][26]
	Perera, FestusFestus Perera		United National Party	1990			Premadasa, RanasingheRanasinghe Premadasa	Minister of Public Administration, Provincial Councils and Home Affairs	[27]
	Dodangoda, AmarasiriAmarasiri Dodangoda		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	1994			Wijetunga, D. B.D. B. Wijetunga	Minister of Home Affairs, Local Government and Co-operatives	[28]
	Pathirana, RichardRichard Pathirana		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	19 October 2000	14 September 2001		Kumaratunga, ChandrikaChandrika Kumaratunga	Minister of Public Administration, Home Affairs and Administrative Reforms	[29]
				14 September 2001				Minister of Public Administration, Home Affairs, Provincial Councils, Local Government and Southern Development	[30][31]
	Aluvihare, AlickAlick Aluvihare		United National Party	12 December 2001				Minister of Home Affairs and Local Government	[32][33]
	Dodangoda, AmarasiriAmarasiri Dodangoda		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	10 April 2004				Minister of Public Administration and Home Affairs	[34][35][36]
	Amunugama, SarathSarath Amunugama		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	23 November 2005			Rajapaksa, MahindaMahinda Rajapaksa		[37]
	Jayasuriya, KaruKaru Jayasuriya		United National Party	28 January 2007	9 December 2008				[38][39][40]
	Amunugama, SarathSarath Amunugama		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	1 January 2009					[41][42]
	Seneviratne, JohnJohn Seneviratne		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	23 April 2010					[43][44][45]
	Perera, M. Joseph MichaelM. Joseph Michael Perera		United National Party	12 January 2015	22 March 2015		Sirisena, MaithripalaMaithripala Sirisena	Minister of Home Affairs and Fisheries	[46][47][48][49]
				22 March 2015	17 August 2015			Minister of Home Affairs	[50][51][52][53]
	Abeywardena, VajiraVajira Abeywardena		United National Party	4 September 2015					[54][55][56]

Secretaries

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Home Affairs Secretaries

Name	Took office	Left office	Title	Refs
Dissanayake , D.D. Dissanayake	25 April 2010		Public Administration and Home Affairs Secretary	[57]
Abeykoon, P. B.P. B. Abeykoon	22 November 2010		Public Administration and Home Affairs Secretary	[58]
Borelessa, S. D. A. B.S. D. A. B. Borelessa	19 January 2015		Home Affairs and Fisheries Secretary	[59][60][61][62]
Rathnasiri, J. J.J. J. Rathnasiri	8 September 2015		Home Affairs Secretary	[63][64][65]

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External links

• pubad.gov.lk