Ministry of Social Empowerment and Welfare

Ministry of Social Empowerment and Welfare
Ministry overview
Jurisdiction Government of Sri Lanka
Headquarters 1st Floor, Sethsiripaya (Stage II), Battaramulla, Colombo
6°54′10.10″N 79°54′57.40″E / 6.9028056°N 79.9159444°E / 6.9028056; 79.9159444Coordinates: 6°54′10.10″N 79°54′57.40″E / 6.9028056°N 79.9159444°E / 6.9028056; 79.9159444
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
Jayah, T. B.T. B. Jayah 26 September 1947 1950 Senanayake, D. S.D. S. Senanayake Minister of Labour and Social Services [5][6]
Vaithianathan, KanthiahKanthiah Vaithianathan 1953 1953 Kotelawala, JohnJohn Kotelawala Minister of Housing and Social Services [7]
1953 Minister of Industries, Housing and Social Services [7]
Ilangaratne, T. B.T. B. Ilangaratne Sri Lanka Freedom Party 12 April 1956 Bandaranaike, S. W. R. D.S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike Minister of Labour, Housing and Social Services [8][9][10][11]
Kalugalla, P. B. G.P. B. G. Kalugalla Sri Lanka Freedom Party 9 June 1959 Minister of Cultural Affairs and Social Services [12]
8 December 1959 Dahanayake, W.W. Dahanayake [12]
Peiris, M. V. P.M. V. P. Peiris 23 March 1960 1960 Senanayake, DudleyDudley Senanayake Minister of Health and Social Services [12]
Goonesekera, D. S.D. S. Goonesekera Sri Lanka Freedom Party 28 May 1963 Bandaranaike, SirimavoSirimavo Bandaranaike Minister of Labour and Social Services [13]
Karunaratne, AsokaAsoka Karunaratne United National Party Senanayake, DudleyDudley Senanayake Minister of Social Services [14]
Kulatileke, S. S.S. S. Kulatileke Bandaranaike, SirimavoSirimavo Bandaranaike [15]
Karunaratne, AsokaAsoka Karunaratne United National Party 23 July 1977 Jayewardene, J. R.J. R. Jayewardene [16][17]
Atapattu, RanjitRanjit Atapattu United National Party 18 February 1989 5 January 1990 Premadasa, RanasingheRanasinghe Premadasa Minister of Labour and Social Welfare [18]
Wijetunga, D. B.D. B. Wijetunga United National Party 11 January 1990 [18]
Adhikari, A. M. S.A. M. S. Adhikari United National Party 30 March 1990 14 March 1991 Minister of Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Social Welfare [19]
Dayaratna, P.P. Dayaratna United National Party 14 March 1991 [19][20]
Fowzie, A. H. M.A. H. M. Fowzie Sri Lanka Freedom Party 19 August 1994 Wijetunga, D. B.D. B. Wijetunga Minister of Health and Social Services [21][22]
Fernando, MilroyMilroy Fernando Sri Lanka Freedom Party 19 October 2000 Kumaratunga, ChandrikaChandrika Kumaratunga Minister of Social Services and Fishing Community Housing Development [23]
de Silva, Nimal SiripalaNimal Siripala de Silva Sri Lanka Freedom Party 14 September 2001 Minister of Health, Indigenous Medicine and Social Services [24][25]
Jayasena, Sumedha G.Sumedha G. Jayasena Sri Lanka Freedom Party 10 April 2004 Minister of Women's Empowerment and Social Welfare [26][27][28]
Devananda, DouglasDouglas Devananda Eelam People's Democratic Party 23 November 2005 Rajapaksa, MahindaMahinda Rajapaksa Minister of Social Services and Social Welfare [29]
Perera, FelixFelix Perera Sri Lanka Freedom Party 23 April 2010 Minister of Social Services [30][31][32][33][34]
Harrison, P.P. Harrison United National Party 12 January 2015 17 August 2015 Sirisena, MaithripalaMaithripala Sirisena Minister of Social Services, Welfare and Livestock Development [35][36][37][38]
Dissanayake, S. B.S. B. Dissanayake 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
Chitrangani, W. YamunaW. Yamuna Chitrangani 25 April 2010 Social Services Secretary [42][43]
Ekanayake, D. K. R.D. K. R. Ekanayake 19 January 2015 Social Services, Welfare and Livestock Secretary [44][45][46][47]
Seneviratne, MahindaMahinda Seneviratne 8 September 2015 Social Empowerment and Social Services Secretary [48][49][50]

References

  1. ↑ "PART I : SECTION (I) — GENERAL Government Notifications THE CONSTITUTION OF THE DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF SRI LANKA Notification" (PDF). The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary. 1933/13. 21 September 2015.
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  5. ↑ "First cabinet had only 14 ministers". The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka). 23 September 2007.
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  7. 1 2 Rajasingham, K. T. "Chapter 15: Turbulence in any language". Sri Lanka: The Untold Story.
  8. ↑ Rajasingham, K. T. "Chapter 16: 'Honorable wounds of war'". Sri Lanka: The Untold Story.
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  12. 1 2 3 Rajasingham, K. T. "Chapter 17: Assassination of Bandaranaike". Sri Lanka: The Untold Story.
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  16. ↑ Sri Lanka Year Book 1977 (PDF). Department of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka. pp. 17–18.
  17. ↑ Sri Lanka Year Book 1982 (PDF). Department of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka. pp. 12–14.
  18. 1 2 de Silva, W. P. P.; Ferdinando, T. C. L. 9th Parliament of Sri Lanka (PDF). Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited. p. 210.
  19. 1 2 de Silva, W. P. P.; Ferdinando, T. C. L. 9th Parliament of Sri Lanka (PDF). Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited. pp. 213–214.
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  21. ↑ "The New Cabinet" (PDF). Tamil Times XIII (8): 4. 15 August 1994. ISSN 0266-4488.
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  28. ↑ "JVP boycotts UPFA cabinet swearing in ceremony". TamilNet. 10 April 2004.
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