Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation (Sri Lanka)

Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation

Ministry overview
Jurisdiction	Government of Sri Lanka
Headquarters	1 D. R. Wijewardena Mawatha, Colombo 10 6°55′37.80″N 79°51′35.70″E / 6.9271667°N 79.8599167°ECoordinates: 6°55′37.80″N 79°51′35.70″E / 6.9271667°N 79.8599167°E
Annual budget	Rs. 17 billion (2016, recurrent) Rs. 42 billion (2016, capital)
Minister responsible	Nimal Siripala de Silva, Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation
Deputy Minister responsible	Ashoka Abeysinghe, Deputy Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation
Ministry executive	Nihal Somaweera, Secretary
Child agencies	Airport and Aviation Services Civil Aviation Authority Department of Motor Traffic National Transport Commission National Transport Medical Institute Sri Lanka Railways Sri Lanka Transport Board
Website	transport.gov.lk

The Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation is the central government ministry of Sri Lanka responsible for transport. The ministry is responsible for formulating and implementing national policy on transport and other subjects which come under its purview.^[1] The ministry manages the country's railways, public bus transport system and civil aviation. The ministry is not responsible for roads, ports and shipping - these come under the purview of the Ministry of Higher Education and Highways and Ministry of and Ports and Shipping respectively. The current Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation and Deputy Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation are Nimal Siripala de Silva and Ashoka Abeysinghe respectively.^[2][3] The ministry's secretary is Nihal Somaweera.^[4]

Ministers

The Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation is a member of the Cabinet of Sri Lanka.

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Ministers of Transport

Name		Portrait	Party	Took office	Left office	Head of government		Ministerial title	Refs
	Markar, Mohamed MacanMohamed Macan Markar			1931	1936			Minister of Communications and Works	[5]
	Kotelawala, JohnJohn Kotelawala			1936	1945				[6][7]
			United National Party	26 September 1947			Senanayake, D. S.D. S. Senanayake	Minister of Transport and Works	[7][8][9]
							Senanayake, DudleyDudley Senanayake		[7][10][11]
				1953	1954		Kotelawala, JohnJohn Kotelawala		[7][12]
	Jayawickrama, MontagueMontague Jayawickrama								[12]
	Senanayake, MaithripalaMaithripala Senanayake		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	12 April 1956			Bandaranaike, S. W. R. D.S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike		[13][14][15]
					8 December 1959		Dahanayake, W.W. Dahanayake	Minister of Transport and Power	[16]
	Jayawickrama, MontagueMontague Jayawickrama		United National Party	23 March 1960	1960		Senanayake, DudleyDudley Senanayake	Minister of Nationalised Services, Shipping and Transport	[16]
	Kalugalla, P. B. G.P. B. G. Kalugalla		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	23 July 1960			Bandaranaike, SirimavoSirimavo Bandaranaike	Minister of Transport and Works	[17]
	Moonesinghe, AnilAnil Moonesinghe		Lanka Sama Samaja Party	11 June 1964	March 1965		Bandaranaike, SirimavoSirimavo Bandaranaike	Minister of Communications	[18]
	Hurulle, E. L. B.E. L. B. Hurulle		United National Party	March 1965			Senanayake, DudleyDudley Senanayake	Minister of Communications	[19][20][21]
	Goonewardena, LeslieLeslie Goonewardena		Lanka Sama Samaja Party	31 May 1970	2 September 1975		Bandaranaike, SirimavoSirimavo Bandaranaike	Minister of Transport	[22][23][24][25][26][27]
	Ratnayake, K. B.K. B. Ratnayake		Sri Lanka Freedom Party				Bandaranaike, SirimavoSirimavo Bandaranaike	Minister of Transport	[28][29]
	Mohamed, M. H.M. H. Mohamed		United National Party	23 July 1977			Jayewardene, J. R.J. R. Jayewardene	Minister of Transport	[30][31][32]
	Mendis, WijayapalaWijayapala Mendis		United National Party				Premadasa, RanasingheRanasinghe Premadasa	Minister of Transport and Highways	[33][34][35]
	Athulathmudali, SrimaneeSrimanee Athulathmudali		Democratic United National Front (L)	1994	1997		Wijetunga, D. B.D. B. Wijetunga	Minister of Transport, Highways, Environment and Women's Affairs	[36][37][38]
	Gunawardena, DineshDinesh Gunawardena		Mahajana Eksath Peramuna	19 October 2000			Kumaratunga, ChandrikaChandrika Kumaratunga	Minister of Transport	[39]
				14 September 2001				Minister of Transport and Environment Protection	[40][41]
	Athukorala, GaminiGamini Athukorala		United National Party	12 December 2001				Minister of Transport, Highways and Aviation	[42][43]
	Perera, FelixFelix Perera		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	10 April 2004				Minister of Transport	[44][45][46]
	Fowzie, A. H. M.A. H. M. Fowzie		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	23 November 2005			Rajapaksa, MahindaMahinda Rajapaksa	Minister of Railways and Transport	[47][48][49]
	Alahapperuma, DullasDullas Alahapperuma		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	28 January 2007				Minister of Transport	[50][51][52]
	Welgama, KumaraKumara Welgama		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	23 April 2010					[53][54][55]
	Bandara, R. M. Ranjith MaddumaR. M. Ranjith Madduma Bandara		United National Party	12 January 2015	17 August 2015		Sirisena, MaithripalaMaithripala Sirisena	Minister of Internal Transport	[56][57][58]
	de Silva, Nimal SiripalaNimal Siripala de Silva		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	4 September 2015	14 October 2015			Minister of Transport	[59][60][61]
				14 October 2015				Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation	[62]

Secretaries

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Transport Secretaries

Name	Took office	Left office	Title	Refs
Rajendra, M.M. Rajendra	1964		Permanent Secretary	[63][64]
Jayaweera, D. S.D. S. Jayaweera			Transport Secretary	[65]
Collure, D. T. P.D. T. P. Collure	5 May 2008		Transport Secretary	[66]
Gunaruwan, LalithasiriLalithasiri Gunaruwan	25 April 2010		Transport Secretary	[67]
Basnayake, B. M. U. D.B. M. U. D. Basnayake	22 November 2010		Transport Secretary	[68]
Perera, DammikaDammika Perera	12 January 2011		Transport Secretary	[69][70][71]
Gunaruwan, LalithasiriLalithasiri Gunaruwan	22 January 2015		Internal Transport Secretary	[72][73]
Somaweera, NihalNihal Somaweera	8 September 2015		Transport Secretary	[74][75][76]

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External links

• transport.gov.lk