Sri Lanka appoints 24 new State Ministers
Posted by Editor on April 18, 2022 - 5:41 pm
24 new State Ministers took oaths in the presence of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today (April 18).
Meanwhile seventeen Cabinet Ministers had been appointed by the President this morning.
- Professor G. L. Peiris – State Minister of Defense
- Rohana Dissanayake – State Minister of Provincial Councils and Local Government
- Arundhika Fernando – State Minister of Plantations
- Lohan Ratwatte – State Minister of Urban Development
- Tharaka Balasuriya – State Minister of External Affairs
- Indika Anurudhdha – State Minister of Housing
- Sanath Nishantha – State Minister of Water Supply
- Siripala Gamlath – State Minister of Mahaweli
- Anuradha Jayaratne – State Minister of Irrigation
- Sisira Jayakody – State Minister of Indigenous Medicine
- Prasanna Ranaweera – State Minister of Industries
- D. V. Chanaka – State Minister of Tourism & Fisheries
- D. B. Herath – State Minister of Livestock
- Kader Masthan – State Minister of Rural Economic Crop Cultivation & Promotion
- Ashoka Priyantha – State Minister of Trade
- A. Aravind Kumar – State Minister of Estate Housing and Community Infrastructure
- Geetha Kumarasinghe – State Minister of Culture & Performing Arts
- Gunapala Ratnasekera – State Minister of Cooperative Services, Business Development , and Consumer Protection
- Kapila Nuwan Athukorala – State Minister of Development of Minor Crops Plantation
- Dr. Gayashan Navananda – State Minister of Health
- Surendra Raghavan – State Minister of Education Services and Reforms
- Diana Gamage – State Minister of Transport
- Seetha Arambepola – State Minister of Education and Technology
- Vijitha Berugoda – State Minister of Ports and Shipping
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