{"id":144399,"date":"2024-09-24T14:30:37","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T21:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=144399"},"modified":"2024-09-24T14:30:37","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T21:30:37","slug":"new-secretaries-appointed-for-15-ministries-including-pms-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/09\/24\/new-secretaries-appointed-for-15-ministries-including-pms-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"New Secretaries appointed for 15 ministries including PM\u2019s Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>New Secretaries have been appointed for 15 ministries, including the positions of Prime Minister\u2019s Secretary and Cabinet Secretary, according to the President\u2019s Media Division (PMD).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The full list of appointments is as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>1. Mr. G.P. Saputhanthri&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>&#8211; Secretary to the Prime Minister<br>2. Mr. W.M.D.J. Fernando &#8211; Cabinet Secretary<br>3. Mr. K.D.S. Ruwanchandra &#8211; Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, Highways, Ports, and Civil Aviation<br>4. Mr. K.M.M. Siriwardena &#8211; Secretary to the Ministry of Finance, Economic Development, Policy Formulation, Planning, and Tourism<br>5. Mrs. Aruni Wijewardena &#8211; Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs<br>6. Ms. J.M.T. Jayasundara &#8211; Secretary to the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology<br>7. Mr. K. Maheson &#8211; Secretary to the Ministry of Women, Children, Youth Affairs, and Sports<br>8. Mr. M.M. Naimuddin &#8211; Secretary to the Ministry of Trade, Commerce, Food Security, Cooperative Development, Industry, and Entrepreneurship Development<br>9. Mr. A.M.P.M.B. Atapattu &#8211; Secretary to the Ministry of Rural and Urban Development, Housing, and Construction<br>10. Mr. Palitha Gunaratne Mahipala &#8211; Secretary to the Ministry of Health<br>11. Mr. W.P.P. Yasaratne &#8211; Secretary to the Ministry of Justice, Public Administration, Home Affairs, Provincial Councils, Local Government, and Labour<br>12. Mr. B.K. Prabhath Chandrakeerthy &#8211; Secretary to the Ministry of Environment, Wildlife, Forest Resources, Water Supply, Plantation, and Community Infrastructure<br>13. Mr. M.P.N.M. Wickramasinghe &#8211; Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Lands, Livestock, Irrigation, Fisheries, and Aquatic Resources<br>14. Mr. H.S.S. Thuiyakontha &#8211; Secretary to the Ministry of Defence<br>15. Mr. D.W.R.B. Seneviratne &#8211; Secretary to the Ministry of Public Security<br>16. Mr. Ranjith Ariyaratne &#8211; Secretary to the Ministry of Buddhasasana, Religious and Cultural Affairs, National Integration, Social Security and Mass Media<br>17. Professor K.T.M. Udayanga Hemapala &#8211; Secretary to the Ministry of Energy<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana New Secretaries have been appointed for 15 ministries, including the positions of Prime Minister\u2019s Secretary and Cabinet Secretary, according to the President\u2019s Media Division (PMD).&nbsp; The full list of appointments is as follows: 1. Mr. G.P. Saputhanthri&nbsp;&#8211; Secretary to the Prime Minister2. Mr. W.M.D.J. Fernando &#8211; Cabinet Secretary3. Mr. K.D.S. Ruwanchandra &#8211; Secretary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}