Ministry_of_Home_Affairs_(Sri_Lanka)

Ministry of Home Affairs
ස්වදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්‍යාංශය; உள்நாட்டலுவல்கள் அமைச்சு
Ministry overview
Formed	1931; 93 years ago
Jurisdiction	Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
Headquarters	Independence Square, Colombo 07; 6.903524°N 79.869168°E
Annual budget	LKR 27 billion (2016, recurrent); LKR 5 billion (2016, capital);
Minister responsible	Dinesh Gunawardena, Minister of Public Administration, Home Affairs, Provincial Councils and Local Government;
Ministry executive	S. T. Kodikara, Ministry Secretary;
Child agencies	District and divisional secretariats of Sri Lanka; Registrar General's Department;
Website	moha.gov.lk

Ministry of Home Affairs (Sri Lanka)

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The Ministry of Home Affairs (Sinhala: ස්වදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්‍යාංශය Swadēsha Katayuthu Amathyanshaya; Tamil: உள்நாட்டலுவல்கள் அமைச்சு) is a cabinet ministry of the Government of Sri Lanka responsible for public administration.

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The Minister of Home Affairs is one of the most senior ministers in the government and ranks third in the ministerial ranking. The ministry is responsible for formulating and implementing national policy on home affairs and other subjects which come under its purview.^[1] The ministry manages the country's administrative service, including District and Divisional Secretariats as well as the Grama Niladhari (village officers) network under the oversight of the latter.

The current Minister of Home Affairs is Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena.

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	Portrait	Party	Took office	Left office		Ministerial title	Refs
Don Baron Jayatilaka			1931	1942		Minister of Home Affairs	^[2]^[3]
Arunachalam Mahadeva			1942	1946		Minister of Home Affairs	^[4]^[5]
Oliver Goonetilleke			26 September 1947		D. S. Senanayake	Minister of Home Affairs and Rural Development	^[6]^[7]
Edwin Wijeyeratne			1948	1951	D. S. Senanayake		^[8]
Oliver Goonetilleke			1952		Dudley Senanayake
A. Ratnayake					Dudley Senanayake	Minister of Home Affairs	^[9]
A. Ratnayake			1953		John Kotelawala		^[10]
A. P. Jayasuriya			12 April 1956	June 1959	S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike		^[11]^[12]
T. B. Ilangaratne		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	26 September 1959	8 December 1959	W. Dahanayake		^[13]
M. C. M. Kaleel		United National Party	23 March 1960	1960	Dudley Senanayake	Minister of Home Affairs and Rural Development	^[13]^[14]
Maithripala Senanayake		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	23 July 1960		Sirimavo Bandaranaike	Minister of Industries, Home and Cultural Affairs	^[15]^[16]
W. Dahanayake		Sri Lanka Freedom Socialist Party	March 1965		Dudley Senanayake	Minister of Home Affairs	^[17]^[18]
Felix Dias Bandaranaike	align=center	Sri Lanka Freedom Party	31 May 1970		Sirimavo Bandaranaike	Minister of Public Administration, Local Government and Home Affairs	^[19]^[20]
T. B. Ilangaratne		Sri Lanka Freedom Party			Sirimavo Bandaranaike	Minister of Public Administration and Home Affairs	^[21]
Montague Jayawickrama		United National Party	23 July 1977		J. R. Jayewardene	Minister of Public Administration and Home Affairs	^[22]
K. W. Devanayakam		United National Party	14 February 1980		J. R. Jayewardene	Minister of Home Affairs	^[23]^[24]
Festus Perera		United National Party	1990		Ranasinghe Premadasa	Minister of Public Administration, Provincial Councils and Home Affairs	^[25]
Amarasiri Dodangoda		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	1994		D. B. Wijetunga	Minister of Home Affairs, Local Government and Co-operatives	^[26]
Richard Pathirana		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	19 October 2000	14 September 2001	Chandrika Kumaratunga	Minister of Public Administration, Home Affairs and Administrative Reforms	^[27]
Richard Pathirana		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	14 September 2001			Minister of Public Administration, Home Affairs, Provincial Councils, Local Government and Southern Development	^[28]^[29]
Alick Aluvihare		United National Party	12 December 2001			Minister of Home Affairs and Local Government	^[30]^[31]
Amarasiri Dodangoda		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	10 April 2004			Minister of Public Administration and Home Affairs	^[32]^[33]^[34]
Sarath Amunugama		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	23 November 2005		Mahinda Rajapaksa		^[35]
Karu Jayasuriya		United National Party	28 January 2007	9 December 2008			^[36]^[37]^[38]
Sarath Amunugama		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	1 January 2009				^[39]^[40]
John Seneviratne		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	23 April 2010				^[41]^[42]^[43]
M. Joseph Michael Perera		United National Party	12 January 2015	22 March 2015	Maithripala Sirisena	Minister of Home Affairs and Fisheries	^[44]^[45]^[46]^[47]
M. Joseph Michael Perera		United National Party	22 March 2015	17 August 2015		Minister of Home Affairs	^[48]^[49]^[50]^[51]
Vajira Abeywardena		United National Party	4 September 2015	21 November 2019		Minister of Home Affairs	^[52]^[53]^[54]
Janaka Bandara Tennakoon		Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna	22 November 2019	3 April 2022	Gotabaya Rajapaksa	Minister of Public Administration, Home Affairs, Provincial Councils and Local Government
Dinesh Gunawardena		Mahajana Eksath Peramuna	18 April 2022	Incumbent	Gotabaya Rajapaksa	Minister of Public Administration, Home Affairs, Provincial Councils and Local Government

Name	Took office	Left office	Title	Refs
D. Dissanayake	25 April 2010		Public Administration and Home Affairs Secretary	^[55]
P. B. Abeykoon	22 November 2010		Public Administration and Home Affairs Secretary	^[56]
S. D. A. B. Borelessa	19 January 2015		Home Affairs and Fisheries Secretary	^[57]^[58]^[59]^[60]
J. J. Rathnasiri	8 September 2015	31 July 2016	Home Affairs Secretary	^[61]^[62]^[63]^[64]
Neil De Alwis	4 September 2016		Home Affairs Secretary	^[65]
S. T. Kodikara	17 April 2018		Home Affairs Secretary	^[66]

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ස්වදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්‍යාංශය உள்நாட்டலுவல்கள் அமைச்சு

Formed	1931; 93 years ago (1931)
Jurisdiction	Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
Headquarters	Independence Square, Colombo 07 6.903524°N 79.869168°E / 6.903524; 79.869168
Annual budget	LKR 27 billion (2016, recurrent) LKR 5 billion (2016, capital)
Minister responsible	Dinesh Gunawardena, Minister of Public Administration, Home Affairs, Provincial Councils and Local Government
Ministry executive	S. T. Kodikara, Ministry Secretary
Child agencies	District and divisional secretariats of Sri Lanka Registrar General's Department
Website	moha.gov.lk