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Ministry of Social Empowerment, Welfare and Kandyan Heritage
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Jurisdiction	Government of Sri Lanka
Headquarters	1st Floor, Sethsiripaya (Stage II), Battaramulla, Colombo; 6°54′10.10″N 79°54′57.40″E
Annual budget	Rs. 14 billion (2017, recurrent); Rs. 2 billion (2017, capital);
Minister responsible	Ranil Wikramasinhe, Minister of Social Empowerment, Welfare and Kandyan Heritage;
Deputy Minister responsible	Anupa Pasqual , Deputy Minister of Social Empowerment, Welfare and Kandyan Heritage;
Ministry executive	Mahinda Seneviratne, Secretary;
Child agencies	Department of Divineguma Development; Department of Social Services; National Council for Persons with Disabilities; National Institute of Social Development; National Secretariat for Elders and National Council for Elders; National Secretariat for Persons with Disabilities; Rural Development Training and Research Institute; Social Security Board;
Website	socialemwelfare.gov.lk

Ministry of Social Empowerment, Welfare and Kandyan Heritage

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The Ministry of Social Empowerment, Welfare and Kandyan Heritage is the central government ministry of Sri Lanka responsible for social services, social welfare and Kandyan heritage. The ministry is responsible for formulating and implementing national policy on social empowerment and welfare and other subjects which come under its purview.^[1] The current Minister of Social Empowerment, Welfare and Kandyan Heritage and Deputy Minister of Social Empowerment, Welfare and Kandyan Heritage are S. B. Dissanayake and Ranjan Ramanayake respectively.^[2]^[3] The ministry's secretary is Mahinda Seneviratne.^[4]

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	Party	Took office	Left office		Ministerial title	Refs
T. B. Jayah		26 September 1947	1950	D. S. Senanayake	Minister of Labour and Social Services	^[5]^[6]
Kanthiah Vaithianathan		1953	1953	John Kotelawala	Minister of Housing and Social Services	^[7]
Kanthiah Vaithianathan		1953		John Kotelawala	Minister of Industries, Housing and Social Services	^[7]
T. B. Ilangaratne	Sri Lanka Freedom Party	12 April 1956		S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike	Minister of Labour, Housing and Social Services	^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]
P. B. G. Kalugalla	Sri Lanka Freedom Party	9 June 1959		S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike	Minister of Cultural Affairs and Social Services	^[12]
P. B. G. Kalugalla	Sri Lanka Freedom Party		8 December 1959	W. Dahanayake	Minister of Cultural Affairs and Social Services	^[12]
M. V. P. Peiris		23 March 1960	1960	Dudley Senanayake	Minister of Health and Social Services	^[12]
D. S. Goonesekera	Sri Lanka Freedom Party	28 May 1963		Sirimavo Bandaranaike	Minister of Labour and Social Services	^[13]
Asoka Karunaratne	United National Party			Dudley Senanayake	Minister of Social Services	^[14]
S. S. Kulatileke				Sirimavo Bandaranaike		^[15]
Asoka Karunaratne	United National Party	23 July 1977		J. R. Jayewardene		^[16]^[17]
Ranjit Atapattu	United National Party	18 February 1989	5 January 1990	Ranasinghe Premadasa	Minister of Labour and Social Welfare	^[18]
D. B. Wijetunga	United National Party	11 January 1990			Minister of Labour and Social Welfare	^[18]
A. M. S. Adhikari	United National Party	30 March 1990	14 March 1991		Minister of Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Social Welfare	^[19]
P. Dayaratna	United National Party	14 March 1991				^[19]^[20]
A. H. M. Fowzie	Sri Lanka Freedom Party	19 August 1994		D. B. Wijetunga	Minister of Health and Social Services	^[21]^[22]
Milroy Fernando	Sri Lanka Freedom Party	19 October 2000		Chandrika Kumaratunga	Minister of Social Services and Fishing Community Housing Development	^[23]
Nimal Siripala de Silva	Sri Lanka Freedom Party	14 September 2001			Minister of Health, Indigenous Medicine and Social Services	^[24]^[25]
Sumedha G. Jayasena	Sri Lanka Freedom Party	10 April 2004			Minister of Women's Empowerment and Social Welfare	^[26]^[27]^[28]
Douglas Devananda	Eelam People's Democratic Party	23 November 2005		Mahinda Rajapaksa	Minister of Social Services and Social Welfare	^[29]
Felix Perera	Sri Lanka Freedom Party	23 April 2010		Mahinda Rajapaksa	Minister of Social Services	^[30]^[31]^[32]^[33]^[34]
P. Harrison	United National Party	12 January 2015	17 August 2015	Maithripala Sirisena	Minister of Social Services, Welfare and Livestock Development	^[35]^[36]^[37]^[38]
S. B. Dissanayake	Sri Lanka Freedom Party	4 September 2015	22 May 2017		Minister of Social Empowerment and Welfare	^[39]^[40]^[41]^[42]
S. B. Dissanayake	Sri Lanka Freedom Party	22 May 2017			Minister of Social Empowerment, Welfare and Kandyan Heritage	^[42]^[43]^[44]

Name	Took office	Title	Refs
W. Yamuna Chitrangani	25 April 2010	Social Services Secretary	^[45]^[46]
D. K. R. Ekanayake	19 January 2015	Social Services, Welfare and Livestock Secretary	^[47]^[48]^[49]^[50]
Mahinda Seneviratne	8 September 2015	Social Empowerment and Social Services Secretary	^[51]^[52]^[53]

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