Ministry of Telecommunication, Digital Infrastructure and Foreign Employment

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]

Ministry of Information Technology

Ministry overview
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

Ministers

The Minister of Telecommunication, Digital Infrastructure and Foreign Employment is a member of the Cabinet of Sri Lanka.

Ministers of Telecommunication

Name		Portrait	Party	Took office	Left office	Head of government		Ministerial title	Refs
	Mohamed Macan Markar			1931	1936			Minister of Communications and Works	[5]
	John Kotelawala			1936	1945				[6][7]
	C. Sittampalam		Independent	26 September 1947			D. S. Senanayake	Minister of Posts and Telecommunication	[8][9][10]
					1952		Dudley Senanayake		[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					[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						[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					[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]
				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]
				25 February 2018				Minister of Telecommunication, Digital Infrastructure and Foreign Employment	[44][45][46]

Secretaries

Telecommunication Secretaries

Name	Took office	Left 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]