Minister_of_Telecommunication,_Digital_Infrastructure_and_Foreign_Employment_(Sri_Lanka)

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Jurisdiction	Government of Sri Lanka
Headquarters	79/1 5th Lane, Colombo; 6°54′19.90″N 79°51′20.50″E
Annual budget	Rs. 0.1 billion (2018, recurrent); Rs. 2 billion (2018, capital);
Minister responsible	Harin Fernando, Minister of Telecommunication, Digital Infrastructure and Foreign Employment;
Deputy Minister responsible	Tharanath Basnayake, Deputy Minister of Telecommunication and Digital Infrastructure;
Ministry executive	Nihal Somaweera, Wasantha Deshapriya;
Child agencies	Department of Telecommunication; Information and Communication Technology Agency; Sri Lanka Telecom;
Website	mtdi.gov.lk

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The Ministry of Telecommunication, Digital Infrastructure and Foreign Employment is the central government ministry of Sri Lanka responsible for telecommunication and digital infrastructure. The ministry is responsible for formulating and implementing national policy on telecommunication and digital infrastructure and other subjects which come under its purview.^[1] The current Minister of Telecommunication, Digital Infrastructure and Foreign Employment and Deputy Minister of Telecommunication and Digital Infrastructure are Harin Fernando and Tharanath Basnayake respectively.^[2]^[3] The ministry's secretary is Wasantha Deshapriya.^[4]

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	Party	Took office	Left office		Ministerial title	Refs
Mohamed Macan Markar		1931	1936		Minister of Communications and Works	^[5]
John Kotelawala		1936	1945		Minister of Communications and Works	^[6]^[7]
C. Sittampalam	Independent	26 September 1947		D. S. Senanayake	Minister of Posts and Telecommunication	^[8]^[9]^[10]
C. Sittampalam	Independent		1952	Dudley Senanayake	Minister of Posts and Telecommunication	^[10]
Mahanama Samaraweera	Sri Lanka Freedom Party	28 May 1963		Sirimavo Bandaranaike	Minister of Communications	^[11]
Anil Moonesinghe	Lanka Sama Samaja Party	11 June 1964		Sirimavo Bandaranaike	Minister of Communications	^[11]
Montague Jayawickrama	United National Party			Dudley Senanayake	Minister of Public Works, Posts and Telecommunications	^[12]
Leslie Goonewardene	Lanka Sama Samaja Party	31 May 1970	1977	Sirimavo Bandaranaike	Minister of Posts and Telecommunications	^[13]^[14]
Shelton Jayasinghe	United National Party	23 July 1977		J. R. Jayewardene		^[15]^[16]
D. B. Wijetunga	United National Party			J. R. Jayewardene		^[17]
Alick Aluwihare	United National Party	18 February 1989	14 March 1991	Ranasinghe Premadasa		^[18]^[19]^[20]
A. M. S. Adhikari	United National Party	14 March 1991		Ranasinghe Premadasa		^[19]^[20]
Mangala Samaraweera	Sri Lanka Freedom Party	19 August 1994		D. B. Wijetunga		^[21]^[22]
Nimal Siripala de Silva	Sri Lanka Freedom Party	19 October 2000		Chandrika Kumaratunga		^[23]^[24]
Indika Gunawardena	Sri Lanka Freedom Party	14 September 2001				^[24]^[25]
D. M. Jayaratne	Sri Lanka Freedom Party	10 April 2004			Minister of Post, Telecommunications and Udarata Development	^[26]^[27]^[28]
D. M. Jayaratne	Sri Lanka Freedom Party	23 November 2005		Mahinda Rajapaksa	Minister of Posts and Telecommunication	^[29]
Rauff Hakeem	Sri Lanka Muslim Congress	28 January 2007	December 2007			^[30]^[31]^[32]^[33]^[34]
Jeewan Kumaranatunga	Sri Lanka Freedom Party	23 April 2010				^[35]^[36]^[37]
Ranjith Siyambalapitiya	Sri Lanka Freedom Party	22 November 2010			Minister of Telecommunication and Information Technology	^[38]^[39]
Harin Fernando	United National Party	4 September 2015	25 February 2018	Maithripala Sirisena	Minister of Telecommunication and Digital Infrastructure	^[40]^[41]^[42]^[43]
Harin Fernando	United National Party	25 February 2018		Maithripala Sirisena	Minister of Telecommunication, Digital Infrastructure and Foreign Employment	^[44]^[45]^[46]

Name	Took office	Title	Refs
Asoka Jayasekara	25 April 2010	Posts and Telecommunication Secretary	^[47]
N. A. Athukoral	22 November 2010	Telecommunication and Information Technology Secretary	^[48]
Wasantha Deshapriya	11 September 2015	Telecommunication and Digital Infrastructure Secretary	^[49]^[50]^[51]

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