Ministry of Tourism and Lands

The Ministry of Tourism and Lands^[2] (Sinhala: සංචාරක හා ඉඩම් අමාත්‍යාංශය; Tamil: சுற்றுலாத்துறை மற்றும் காணி அமைச்சு) is the central government ministry of Sri Lanka responsible for land and parliamentary reforms. The ministry is responsible for formulating and implementing national policy on lands and other subjects which come under its purview.^[3] The current Minister of Tourism and Lands is Harin Fernando.^[1] The ministry's secretary is W.A. Chulananda Perera.^[4]

Ministry of Tourism and Lands

සංචාරක හා ඉඩම් අමාත්‍යාංශය சுற்றுலாத்துறை மற்றும் காணி அமைச்சு
Ministry overview
Jurisdiction	Government of Sri Lanka
Headquarters	Mihikatha Medura, Land Secretariat, 1200/6 Rajamalwatta Avenue, Battaramulla, Colombo 6°53′59.40″N 79°55′00.90″E
Annual budget	Rs. 5 billion (2017, recurrent) Rs. 3 billion (2017, capital)
Minister responsible	Vijitha Herath[1], Minister of Tourism and Lands
Ministry executive	W.A. Chulananda Perera, Secretary
Child agencies	Department of Land Commissioner General Department of Land Settlement Department of Land Use Policy Planning Department of Surveyor General Institute of Surveying and Mapping Kantalai Sugar Company Land Reform Commission Land Survey Council
Website	www.tourismmin.gov.lk

Ministers

The Minister of Tourism and Lands is a member of the Cabinet of Sri Lanka.

Parties

  Governors of British Ceylon   United National Party   Sri Lanka Freedom Party   Sri Lanka Freedom Socialist Party   Democratic National Movement   Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna   Samagi Jana Balawegaya

Ministers of Lands

Name		Portrait	Party	Took office	Left office	Head of government		Ministerial title	Refs
	D. S. Senanayake		United National Party	1931	1946		Henry Monck-Mason Moore	Minister of Agriculture and Lands	[5]
	Dudley Senanayake		United National Party	1946	1947				[6]
				26 September 1947	26 March 1952		D. S. Senanayake		[7][8]
	P. B. Bulankulame		United National Party	26 March 1952	12 October 1953		Dudley Senanayake		[9][10]
				12 October 1953	12 April 1956		John Kotelawala	Minister of Lands and Land Development	[11]
	C. P. de Silva		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	12 April 1956	26 September 1959		S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike		[12][13][14]
				26 September 1959	December 1959		W. Dahanayake	Minister of Agriculture and Lands	[15]
	M. D. Banda		United National Party	23 March 1960	1960		Dudley Senanayake		[15]
	C. P. de Silva		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	23 July 1960	29 May 1970		Sirimavo Bandaranaike	Minister of Agriculture, Land, Irrigation and Power	[16]
			Sri Lanka Freedom Socialist Party				Dudley Senanayake	Minister of Land, Irrigation and Power	[17][18]
	Hector Kobbekaduwa		Sri Lanka Freedom Party				Sirimavo Bandaranaike	Minister of Agriculture and Lands	[19][20]
	Lionel Senanayake		United National Party	13 July 1977			J. R. Jayewardene		[21]
	P. Dayaratna		United National Party				Ranasinghe Premadasa	Minister of Land, Irrigation and Mahaweli Development	[22][23]
	Gamini Atukorale		United National Party	14 March 1991					[24]
	D. M. Jayaratne		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	19 August 1994			D. B. Wijetunga	Minister of Agriculture, Land and Forestry Conservation	[25][26]
	Salinda Dissanayake		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	19 October 2000			Chandrika Kumaratunga	Minister of Land Development and Minor Export Agricultural Crops	[27]
	Anuruddha Ratwatte		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	14 September 2001				Minister of Lands, Irrigation and Power	[28][29]
	Jeewan Kumaranatunga		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	28 January 2007			Mahinda Rajapaksa	Minister of Land and Land Development	[30][31][32]
	Janaka Bandara Tennakoon		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	23 April 2010				Minister of Lands and Land Development	[33][34][35][36][37][38]
	M. K. D. S. Gunawardena✝		Sri Lanka Freedom Party[39][40]	12 January 2015	19 January 2016		Maithripala Sirisena	Minister of Lands	[41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49]
			Democratic National Movement[50][51]
	John Amaratunga		United National Party	2 March 2016	22 May 2017				[52][53][54]
	Gayantha Karunatileka		United National Party	22 May 2017	21 November 2019			Minister of Lands and Parliamentary Reforms	[55][56][57]
	S. M. Chandrasena		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	22 November 2019	3 April 2022		Gotabaya Rajapaksa	Minister of Lands and Development
	Harin Fernando		Samagi Jana Balawegaya	20 May 2022	9 July 2022			Minister of Tourism and Lands
			United National Party	22 July 2022	Present		Ranil Wickremesinghe

Secretaries

Lands Secretaries

Name	Took office	Left office	Title	Refs
T. Asoka Peiris	25 April 2010		Lands and Land Development Secretary	[58][59]
I. H. K. Mahanama	19 January 2015		Lands Secretary	[60][61][62][63][64][65][66]