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Ministry of Internal Affairs, Wayamba Development and Cultural Affairs
File:Emblem of Sri Lanka.svg
Ministry overview
JurisdictionGovernment of Sri Lanka
Headquarters8th Floor, Sethsiripaya, Battaramulla, Colombo
6°54′12.60″N 79°54′55.60″E / 6.9035000°N 79.9154444°E / 6.9035000; 79.9154444
Annual budget
  • Rs. 3 billion (2016, recurrent)
  • Rs. 3 billion (2016, capital)
Minister responsible
  • S. B. Nawinne, Minister of Internal Affairs, Wayamba Development and Cultural Affairs
Deputy Minister responsible
Ministry executive
  • D. Swarnapala, Secretary
Child agencies
  • Department of Cultural Affairs
  • Department of Immigration and Emigration
  • Department of National Museum
  • Department of Registration of Persons
Websitecultural.gov.lk

The Ministry of Internal Affairs, Wayamba Development and Cultural Affairs is the central government ministry of Sri Lanka responsible for internal affairs, development of Wayamba and culture. The ministry is responsible for formulating and implementing national policy on internal affairs, Waymba development and cultural affairs and other subjects which come under its purview.[1] The current Minister of Internal Affairs, Wayamba Development and Cultural Affairs and Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Wayamba Development and Cultural Affairs are S. B. Nawinne and Palitha Thewarapperuma respectively.[2][3] The ministry's secretary is D. Swarnapala.[4]

Ministers

The Minister of Internal Affairs, Wayamba Development and Cultural Affairs is a member of the Cabinet of Sri Lanka.

Ministers of Culture
Name Portrait Party Took office Left office Head of government Ministerial title Refs
Jayaweera Kuruppu Sri Lanka Freedom Party S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike Minister of Local Government and Cultural Affairs [5][6][7]
P. B. G. Kalugalla Sri Lanka Freedom Party 9 June 1959 Minister of Cultural Affairs and Social Services [8]
8 December 1959 W. Dahanayake [8]
Bernard Aluwihare United National Party 23 March 1960 1960 Dudley Senanayake Minister of Education and Cultural Affairs [8]
Maithripala Senanayake File:Hon. Maithripala Senanayake.jpg Sri Lanka Freedom Party 23 July 1960 Sirimavo Bandaranaike Minister of Industries, Home and Cultural Affairs [9]
P. B. G. Kalugalla Sri Lanka Freedom Party 28 May 1963 Sirimavo Bandaranaike Minister of Education and Cultural Affairs [10]
I. M. R. A. Iriyagolla United National Party March 1965 Dudley Senanayake [11][12]
T. B. Tennekoon Sirimavo Bandaranaike Minister of Cultural Affairs [13]
E. L. B. Hurulle File:Edwin Hurulle.jpg United National Party 23 July 1977 J. R. Jayewardene [14][15][16]
W. J. M. Lokubandara File:WJM Lokubandara.jpg United National Party 18 February 1989 28 March 1990 Ranasinghe Premadasa Minister of Education, Cultural Affairs and Information [17][18]
30 March 1990 Minister of Cultural Affairs and Information [18][19]
August 1993 D. B. Wijetunga [20]
Lakshman Jayakody Sri Lanka Freedom Party 19 August 1994 Minister of Cultural and Religious Affairs [21][22]
Monty Gopallawa Sri Lanka Freedom Party 19 October 2000 Chandrika Kumaratunga Minister of Cultural Affairs [23]
Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena File:Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena.JPG Sri Lanka Freedom Party 25 July 2005 Minister of Cultural Affairs and National Heritage [24]
28 January 2007 Mahinda Rajapaksa Minister of Cultural Affairs [25][26]
Pavithra Devi Wanniarachchi Sri Lanka Freedom Party 23 April 2010 Minister of National Heritage and Cultural Affairs [27][28][29]
T. B. Ekanayake File:T. B. Ekanayake - Korea-South Asia Culture Ministers Meeting (15376643337) (cropped).jpg Sri Lanka Freedom Party 22 November 2010 Minister of Culture and the Arts [30][31]
Ranil Wickremesinghe File:Ranil Wickremesinghe.jpg United National Party 12 January 2015 17 August 2015 Maithripala Sirisena Minister of Policy Planning, Economics Affairs, Child, Youth and Cultural Affairs [32][33][34][35]
S. B. Nawinne United National Party 4 September 2015 Minister of Internal Affairs, Wayamba Development and Cultural Affairs [36][37][38]

Secretaries

Culture Secretaries
Name Took office Left office Title Refs
Wimal Rubasinghe 25 April 2010 National Heritage and Cultural Affairs Secretary [39]
22 November 2010 Culture and the Arts Secretary [40]
K. Liyanage 19 January 2015 Policy Planning, Economic Affairs, Child, Youth and Cultural Affairs Secretary [41]
D. Swarnapala 8 September 2015 Internal Affairs, Wayamba Development and Cultural Affairs Secretary [42][43][44]

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.[permanent dead link‍]
  2. ↑ "Cabinet Ministers". President's Media Division News.
  3. ↑ "Deputy Ministers". President's Media Division News.
  4. ↑ "Secretaries to the Ministries". President's Media Division News.
  5. ↑ Ceylon Year Book 1956 (PDF). Department of Census and Statistics, Ceylon. pp. 10–11.
  6. ↑ Ceylon Year Book 1957 (PDF). Department of Census and Statistics, Ceylon. pp. 10–11.
  7. ↑ Ceylon Year Book 1959 (PDF). Department of Census and Statistics, Ceylon. pp. 9–10.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Rajasingham, K. T. "Chapter 17: Assassination of Bandaranaike". Sri Lanka: The Untold Story. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2016-04-09.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  9. ↑ Rajasingham, K. T. "Chapter 18: Srimavo - weeping arrogance". Sri Lanka: The Untold Story. Archived from the original on 2001-12-17.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  10. ↑ Rajasingham, K. T. "Chapter 19: Anguish and pain". Sri Lanka: The Untold Story. Archived from the original on 2001-12-18.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  11. ↑ Ceylon Year Book 1968 (PDF). Department of Census and Statistics, Ceylon. pp. 15–16.
  12. ↑ Rajasingham, K. T. "Chapter 20 - Tamil leadership lacks perspicuity". Sri Lanka: The Untold Story. Archived from the original on 2002-04-16.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  13. ↑ Sri Lanka Year Book 1975 (PDF). Department of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka. pp. 18–19.
  14. ↑ Sri Lanka Year Book 1977 (PDF). Department of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka. pp. 17–18.
  15. ↑ Rajasingham, K. T. "Chapter 25: War or peace?". Sri Lanka: The Untold Story. Archived from the original on 2002-04-16.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  16. ↑ Sri Lanka Year Book 1982 (PDF). Department of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka. pp. 12–14.
  17. ↑ de Silva, W. P. P.; Ferdinando, T. C. L. 9th Parliament of Sri Lanka (PDF). Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited. p. 210. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-06-23.
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Rajasingham, K. T. "Chapter 43: Aftermath of the Indian withdrawal". Sri Lanka: The Untold Story. Archived from the original on 2002-08-02.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  19. ↑ de Silva, W. P. P.; Ferdinando, T. C. L. 9th Parliament of Sri Lanka (PDF). Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited. pp. 213–214. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-06-23.
  20. ↑ Sebastian, Rita (15 August 1993). "One Hundred Days of Wijetunge's Presidency" (PDF). Tamil Times. XII (8): 4. ISSN 0266-4488.
  21. ↑ "The New Cabinet" (PDF). Tamil Times. XIII (8): 4. 15 August 1994. ISSN 0266-4488.
  22. ↑ "The Cabinet" (PDF). The Sri Lanka Monitor (79): 2. August 1994.
  23. ↑ "New cabinet sworn in today". Current Affairs. Government of Sri Lanka. 19 October 2000. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016.
  24. ↑ "PART I : SECTION (I) — GENERAL Appointments & c., by the President" (PDF). The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary. 1403/06. 25 July 2005.[permanent dead link‍]
  25. ↑ "PART I : SECTION (I) — GENERAL Appointments & c., by the President" (PDF). The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary. 1482/08. 29 January 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 February 2014.
  26. ↑ "The New Cabinet". The Island (Sri Lanka). 29 January 2007.
  27. ↑ "PART I : SECTION (I) — GENERAL Appointments & c., by the President" (PDF). The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary. 1651/3. 26 April 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 May 2010.
  28. ↑ "The New Cabinet". The Sunday Leader. 25 April 2010.
  29. ↑ "New Parliament, New Cabinet" (PDF). The Nation (Sri Lanka). 25 April 2010.
  30. ↑ "PART I : SECTION (I) — GENERAL Appointments & c., by the President" (PDF). The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary. 1681/2. 22 November 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 February 2014.
  31. ↑ "New Faces Boost Cabinet as Hopes Rise". The Nation (Sri Lanka). 28 November 2010. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
  32. ↑ "PART I : SECTION (I) — GENERAL Appointments & c., by the President" (PDF). The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary. 1897/16. 18 January 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 January 2015.
  33. ↑ "New Cabinet ministers sworn in". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 12 January 2015.
  34. ↑ "New Cabinet takes oaths". The Nation (Sri Lanka). 12 January 2015. Archived from the original on 18 January 2015.
  35. ↑ Imtiaz, Zahrah; Moramudali, Umesh (13 January 2015). "27-member cabinet 10 State ministers 08 Deputy ministers". Ceylon Today. Archived from the original on 18 January 2015.
  36. ↑ "PART I : SECTION (I) — GENERAL Appointments & c., by the President" (PDF). The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary. 1932/07. 14 September 2015.[permanent dead link‍]
  37. ↑ "New Cabinet". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 4 September 2015.
  38. ↑ "The new Cabinet". Ceylon Today. 4 September 2015. Archived from the original on 7 September 2015.
  39. ↑ "PART I : SECTION (I) — GENERAL Appointments & c., by the President" (PDF). The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary. 1652/02. 3 May 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 May 2010. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
  40. ↑ "PART I : SECTION (I) — GENERAL Appointments & c., by the President" (PDF). The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary. 1681/04. 22 November 2010.[permanent dead link‍]
  41. ↑ "PART I : SECTION (I) — GENERAL Appointments & c., by the President" (PDF). The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary. 1899/14. 28 January 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2015.
  42. ↑ "PART I : SECTION (I) — GENERAL Appointments & c., by the President" (PDF). The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary. 1932/69. 18 September 2015.[permanent dead link‍]
  43. ↑ "44 new Ministry Secretaries appointed". The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka). 8 September 2015.
  44. ↑ "New Secretaries to Ministries appointed". The Island (Sri Lanka). 9 September 2015.

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