Ministry of Posts, Postal Services and Muslim Religious Affairs

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Ministry of Posts, Postal Services and Muslim Religious Affairs
Emblem of Sri Lanka.svg
Ministry overview
Jurisdiction Government of Sri Lanka
Headquarters 6th & 7th Floors, Postal Headquarters Building, No. 310 D. R. Wijewardena Mawatha, Colombo
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Annual budget
  • Rs. 12 billion (2016, recurrent)
  • Rs. 0.2 billion (2016, capital)
Minister responsible
  • M. H. A. Haleem, Minister of Posts, Postal Services and Muslim Religious Affairs
Deputy Minister responsible
  • Duleep Wijesekera, Deputy Minister of Posts, Postal Services and Muslim Religious Affairs
Ministry executive
  • Nihal Somaweera, P. H. L. Wimalasiri Perera
Child agencies
  • Department of Muslim Religious and Cultural Affairs
  • Postal Department
Website minpost.gov.lk

The Ministry of Posts, Postal Services and Muslim Religious Affairs 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 current Minister of Posts, Postal Services and Muslim Religious Affairs and Deputy Minister of Posts, Postal Services and Muslim Religious Affairs are M. H. A. Haleem and Duleep Wijesekera respectively.[2][3] The ministry's secretary is P. H. L. Wimalasiri Perera.[4]

Ministers

The Minister of Posts, Postal Services and Muslim Religious Affairs is a member of the Cabinet of Sri Lanka.

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Ministers of Posts
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]
C. Sittampalam Independent 26 September 1947 D. S. Senanayake Minister of Posts and Telecommunication [8][9][10]
1952 Dudley Senanayake [10]
V. Nalliah United National Party 19 June 1952 12 July 1952 Minister of Posts and Information [10]
S. Natesan United National Party 1952 [10][11]
19 January 1956 John Kotelawala [12]
C. A. S. Marikar Sri Lanka Freedom Party 12 April 1956 S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike Minister of Posts, Broadcasting and Information [13][14][15][16]
W. Dahanayake
Montague Jayawickrama United National Party 23 March 1960 1960 Dudley Senanayake Minister of Posts, Works and Power [17]
M. P. de Z. Sriwardene 28 May 1963 Sirimavo Bandaranaike Minister of Public Works and Post [18]
Montague Jayawickrama United National Party Dudley Senanayake Minister of Public Works, Posts and Telecommunications [19]
Chelliah Kumarasuriar 31 May 1970 Sirimavo Bandaranaike Minister of Posts and Telecommunications [20][21]
Shelton Jayasinghe United National Party 23 July 1977 J. R. Jayewardene [22][23]
D. B. Wijetunga United National Party [24]
Alick Aluwihare United National Party 18 February 1989 14 March 1991 Ranasinghe Premadasa [25][26][27]
A. M. S. Adhikari United National Party 14 March 1991 [26][27]
Mangala Samaraweera Mangala Samaraweera.jpg Sri Lanka Freedom Party 19 August 1994 D. B. Wijetunga [28][29]
Nimal Siripala de Silva Sri Lanka Freedom Party 19 October 2000 Chandrika Kumaratunga [30][31]
Indika Gunawardena Sri Lanka Freedom Party 14 September 2001 [31][32]
D. M. Jayaratne Sri Lanka Freedom Party 10 April 2004 Minister of Post, Telecommunications and Udarata Development [33][34][35]
23 November 2005 Mahinda Rajapaksa Minister of Posts and Telecommunication [36]
Rauff Hakeem Rauff Hakeem.jpg Sri Lanka Muslim Congress 28 January 2007 December 2007 [37][38][39][40][41]
Jeewan Kumaranatunga Sri Lanka Freedom Party 23 April 2010 [42][43][44]
22 November 2010 Minister of Postal Services [45][46]
M. H. A. Haleem United National Party 21 January 2015 17 August 2015 Maithripala Sirisena Minister of Muslim Religious Affairs and Posts [47][48][49]
4 September 2015 Minister of Posts, Postal Service and Muslim Affairs [50][51][52]

Secretaries

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Posts Secretaries
Name Took office Left office Title Refs
Asoka Jayasekara 25 April 2010 Posts and Telecommunication Secretary [53]
22 November 2010 Postal Services Secretary [54]
Abdul Majeed 19 January 2015 Muslim Religious Affairs and Posts Secretary [55][56]
P. H. L. Wimalasiri Perera 8 September 2015 Postal, Postal Services and Muslim Religious Affairs Secretary [57][58][59]

References

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