Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation (Sri Lanka)

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Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation
Emblem of Sri Lanka.svg
Ministry overview
Jurisdiction Government of Sri Lanka
Headquarters 1 D. R. Wijewardena Mawatha, Colombo 10
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Annual budget
  • Rs. 17 billion (2016, recurrent)
  • Rs. 42 billion (2016, capital)
Minister responsible
Deputy Minister responsible
Ministry executive
  • Nihal Somaweera, Secretary
Child agencies
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
Mohamed Macan Markar 1931 1936 Minister of Communications and Works [5]
John Kotelawala 1936 1945 [6][7]
United National Party 26 September 1947 D. S. Senanayake Minister of Transport and Works [7][8][9]
Dudley Senanayake [7][10][11]
1953 1954 John Kotelawala [7][12]
Montague Jayawickrama [12]
Maithripala Senanayake Hon. Maithripala Senanayake.jpg Sri Lanka Freedom Party 12 April 1956 S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike [13][14][15]
8 December 1959 W. Dahanayake Minister of Transport and Power [16]
Montague Jayawickrama United National Party 23 March 1960 1960 Dudley Senanayake Minister of Nationalised Services, Shipping and Transport [16]
P. B. G. Kalugalla Sri Lanka Freedom Party 23 July 1960 Sirimavo Bandaranaike Minister of Transport and Works [17]
Anil Moonesinghe Lanka Sama Samaja Party 11 June 1964 March 1965 Sirimavo Bandaranaike Minister of Communications [18]
E. L. B. Hurulle 100x100px United National Party March 1965 Dudley Senanayake Minister of Communications [19][20][21]
Leslie Goonewardena Lanka Sama Samaja Party 31 May 1970 2 September 1975 Sirimavo Bandaranaike Minister of Transport [22][23][24][25][26][27]
K. B. Ratnayake Sri Lanka Freedom Party Sirimavo Bandaranaike Minister of Transport [28][29]
M. H. Mohamed United National Party 23 July 1977 J. R. Jayewardene Minister of Transport [30][31][32]
Wijayapala Mendis United National Party Ranasinghe Premadasa Minister of Transport and Highways [33][34][35]
Srimanee Athulathmudali Democratic United National Front (L) 1994 1997 D. B. Wijetunga Minister of Transport, Highways, Environment and Women's Affairs [36][37][38]
Dinesh Gunawardena Mahajana Eksath Peramuna 19 October 2000 Chandrika Kumaratunga Minister of Transport [39]
14 September 2001 Minister of Transport and Environment Protection [40][41]
Gamini Athukorala United National Party 12 December 2001 Minister of Transport, Highways and Aviation [42][43]
Felix Perera Sri Lanka Freedom Party 10 April 2004 Minister of Transport [44][45][46]
A. H. M. Fowzie 100x100px Sri Lanka Freedom Party 23 November 2005 Mahinda Rajapaksa Minister of Railways and Transport [47][48][49]
Dullas Alahapperuma 100x100px Sri Lanka Freedom Party 28 January 2007 Minister of Transport [50][51][52]
Kumara Welgama Sri Lanka Freedom Party 23 April 2010 [53][54][55]
R. M. Ranjith Madduma Bandara Ranjith Madduma Bandara.jpg United National Party 12 January 2015 17 August 2015 Maithripala Sirisena Minister of Internal Transport [56][57][58]
Nimal 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
M. Rajendra 1964 Permanent Secretary [63][64]
D. S. Jayaweera Transport Secretary [65]
D. T. P. Collure 5 May 2008 Transport Secretary [66]
Lalithasiri Gunaruwan 25 April 2010 Transport Secretary [67]
B. M. U. D. Basnayake 22 November 2010 Transport Secretary [68]
Dammika Perera 12 January 2011 Transport Secretary [69][70][71]
Lalithasiri Gunaruwan 22 January 2015 Internal Transport Secretary [72][73]
Nihal Somaweera 8 September 2015 Transport Secretary [74][75][76]

References

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