Ministry of Power and Renewable Energy

Ministry of Power and Renewable Energy
Ministry overview
Jurisdiction Government of Sri Lanka
Headquarters 72 Ananda Coomarswamy Mawatha,, Colombo
6°54′4.90″N 79°51′17.60″E / 6.9013611°N 79.8548889°E / 6.9013611; 79.8548889Coordinates: 6°54′4.90″N 79°51′17.60″E / 6.9013611°N 79.8548889°E / 6.9013611; 79.8548889
Annual budget
  • Rs. 0.5 billion (2016, recurrent)
  • Rs. 0.8 billion (2016, capital)
Minister responsible
Deputy Minister responsible
Ministry executive
  • B. M. S. Batagoda, Secretary
Child agencies
  • Ceylon Electricity Board
  • Lanka Coal Company (Private) Limited
  • Lanka Electricity Company
  • LTL Holdings (Private) Limited
  • Sri Lanka Atomic Energy Board
  • Sri Lanka Atomic Energy Regulatory Council
  • Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority
Website powermin.gov.lk

The Ministry of Power and Renewable Energy is the central government ministry of Sri Lanka responsible for power and renewable energy. The ministry is responsible for formulating and implementing national policy on power and renewable energy and other subjects which come under its purview.[1] The current Minister of Power and Renewable Energy and Deputy Minister of Power and Renewable Energy are Ranjith Siyambalapitiya and Ajith Perera respectively.[2][3] The ministry's secretary is B. M. S. Batagoda.[4]

Ministers

The Minister of Power and Renewable Energy is a member of the Cabinet of Sri Lanka.

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Ministers of Power
Name Portrait Party Took office Left office Head of government Ministerial title Refs
Senanayake, MaithripalaMaithripala Senanayake Sri Lanka Freedom Party 8 December 1959 Dahanayake, W.W. Dahanayake Minister of Transport and Power [5]
Jayawickrama, MontagueMontague Jayawickrama United National Party 23 March 1960 1960 Senanayake, DudleyDudley Senanayake Minister of Posts, Works and Power [5]
de Silva, C. P.C. P. de Silva Sri Lanka Freedom Party 23 July 1960 Bandaranaike, SirimavoSirimavo Bandaranaike Minister of Agriculture, Land, Irrigation and Power [6]
Sri Lanka Freedom Socialist Party March 1965 Senanayake, DudleyDudley Senanayake Minister of Land, Irrigation and Power [7][8]
Senanayake, MaithripalaMaithripala Senanayake Sri Lanka Freedom Party 31 May 1970 Bandaranaike, SirimavoSirimavo Bandaranaike Minister of Irrigation, Power and Highways [9][10]
Dissanayake, GaminiGamini Dissanayake United National Party 23 July 1977 Jayewardene, J. R.J. R. Jayewardene [11][12][13]
Wijetunga, D. B.D. B. Wijetunga United National Party Minister of Power and Energy [14]
Perera, FestusFestus Perera United National Party 18 February 1989 28 March 1990 Premadasa, RanasingheRanasinghe Premadasa [15]
Bandara, K. D. M. C.K. D. M. C. Bandara United National Party 30 March 1990 [16][17]
Ratwatte, AnuruddhaAnuruddha Ratwatte Sri Lanka Freedom Party 19 August 1994 Wijetunga, D. B.D. B. Wijetunga Minister of Irrigation, Power and Energy [18][19]
19 October 2000 Kumaratunga, ChandrikaChandrika Kumaratunga Minister of Power and Energy [20][21]
14 September 2001 Minister of Lands, Irrigation and Power [22][23]
Jayasuriya, KaruKaru Jayasuriya United National Party 12 December 2001 Minister of Power and Energy [24][25]
Premajayanth, SusilSusil Premajayanth Sri Lanka Freedom Party 10 April 2004 [26][27][28]
Seneviratne, JohnJohn Seneviratne Sri Lanka Freedom Party 23 November 2005 Rajapaksa, MahindaMahinda Rajapaksa [29][30][31]|[32][33][34]
Ranawaka, ChampikaChampika Ranawaka Jathika Hela Urumaya 23 April 2010 [35][36][37][38]
Wanniarachchi, Pavithra DeviPavithra Devi Wanniarachchi Sri Lanka Freedom Party 28 January 2013 [39]
Ranawaka, ChampikaChampika Ranawaka Jathika Hela Urumaya 12 January 2015 17 August 2015 Sirisena, MaithripalaMaithripala Sirisena [40][41][42][43]
Siyambalapitiya, RanjithRanjith Siyambalapitiya Sri Lanka Freedom Party 4 September 2015 Minister of Power and Renewable Energy [44][45][46]

Secretaries

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Power Secretaries
Name Took office Left office Title Refs
Ferdinando, M. M. C.M. M. C. Ferdinando 25 April 2010 Power and Energy Secretary [47][48]
Batagoda, B. M. S.B. M. S. Batagoda 19 January 2015 Power and Energy Secretary [49]
8 September 2015 Power and Renewable Energy Secretary [50][51][52]

References

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  5. 1 2 Rajasingham, K. T. "Chapter 17: Assassination of Bandaranaike". Sri Lanka: The Untold Story.
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