{"id":145907,"date":"2024-11-19T14:06:07","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T21:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=145907"},"modified":"2024-11-19T14:06:08","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T21:06:08","slug":"new-secretaries-to-ministries-pm-and-cabinet-appointed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/11\/19\/new-secretaries-to-ministries-pm-and-cabinet-appointed\/","title":{"rendered":"New Secretaries to Ministries, PM and Cabinet appointed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The appointment of the new Secretary to the Prime Minister, the Cabinet Secretary and Secretaries for 16 Ministries was held at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo today (19).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ceremony was officiated by the Secretary to the President, Dr. Nandika Sanath Kumanayake, the President\u2019s Media Division (PMD) said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The list of appointees is as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>01. Mr. G.P Saputhanthri &#8211; Secretary to the Prime Minister<br>02. Mr. W.D.M. J Fernando &#8211; Secretary to the Cabinet<br>03. Senior Prof. Kapila C.K. Perera &#8211; Ministry of Transport, Highways, Ports and Civil Aviation<br>04. Mr. K.M.M. Siriwardana &#8211; Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development&nbsp;<br>05. Mrs. J.M. Thilaka Jayasundara &#8211; Ministry of Industry and Entrepreneurship Development<br>06. Mr. A.M.P.M. B. Atapattu &#8211; Ministry of Buddhasasana, Religious and Cultural Affairs<br>07. Mr. B.K. Prabath Chandrakeerthi &#8211; Ministry of Plantation and Community Infrastructure<br>08. Mr. H.S.S. Thuyacontha &#8211; Ministry of Defence<br>09. Mr. D.W.R.B. Seneviratne &#8211; Ministry of Public Security and Parliamentary Affairs<br>10. Mr. U. G. Ranjith Ariyaratne &#8211; Minister of Urban Development, Construction and Housing<br>11. Prof. K.T.M. Udayanga Hemapala &#8211; Ministry of Energy<br>12. Mr. S. Aloka Bandara &#8211; Ministry of Public Administration, Provincial Councils and Local Government<br>13. Mr. S.M. Piyatissa &#8211; Ministry of Labour<br>14. Mr. K.A. Wimalenthirarajah &#8211; Ministry of Trade, Commerce, Food Security and Co-operative Development<br>15.&nbsp; Mr. D. P. Wickremasinghe &#8211; Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Land and Irrigation<br>16.&nbsp; Mr. K.M.G.S.N. Kaluwewa &#8211; Ministry of Education, Higher education and Vocational education<br>17. Mr. A.H.M.U. Aruna Bandara &#8211; Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports<br>18. Mrs. Aruni Ranaraja &#8211; Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Employment and Tourism<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The appointment of the new Secretary to the Prime Minister, the Cabinet Secretary and Secretaries for 16 Ministries was held at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo today (19).&nbsp; The ceremony was officiated by the Secretary to the President, Dr. Nandika Sanath Kumanayake, the President\u2019s Media Division (PMD) said. The list of appointees is [&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-145907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145907","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=145907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}