The Ministry of Social Empowerment, Welfare and Kandyan Heritage is the central government ministry of Sri Lanka responsible for social services, social welfare and Kandyan heritage. The ministry is responsible for formulating and implementing national policy on social empowerment and welfare and other subjects which come under its purview. The current Minister of Social Empowerment, Welfare and Kandyan Heritage and Deputy Minister of Social Empowerment, Welfare and Kandyan Heritage are S. B. Dissanayake and Ranjan Ramanayake respectively. The ministry's secretary is Mahinda Seneviratne.

Ministers

The Minister of Social Empowerment, Welfare and Kandyan Heritage is a member of the Cabinet of Sri Lanka.

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (April 2016)

Ministers of Social Services

Name		Portrait	Party	Took office	Left office	Head of government		Ministerial title	Refs
	T. B. Jayah			26 September 1947	1950		D. S. Senanayake	Minister of Labour and Social Services
	Kanthiah Vaithianathan			1953	1953		John Kotelawala	Minister of Housing and Social Services
				1953				Minister of Industries, Housing and Social Services
	T. B. Ilangaratne		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	12 April 1956			S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike	Minister of Labour, Housing and Social Services
	P. B. G. Kalugalla		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	9 June 1959				Minister of Cultural Affairs and Social Services
					8 December 1959		W. Dahanayake
	M. V. P. Peiris			23 March 1960	1960		Dudley Senanayake	Minister of Health and Social Services
	D. S. Goonesekera		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	28 May 1963			Sirimavo Bandaranaike	Minister of Labour and Social Services
	Asoka Karunaratne		United National Party				Dudley Senanayake	Minister of Social Services
	S. S. Kulatileke						Sirimavo Bandaranaike
	Asoka Karunaratne		United National Party	23 July 1977			J. R. Jayewardene
	Ranjit Atapattu		United National Party	18 February 1989	5 January 1990		Ranasinghe Premadasa	Minister of Labour and Social Welfare
	D. B. Wijetunga		United National Party	11 January 1990
	A. M. S. Adhikari		United National Party	30 March 1990	14 March 1991			Minister of Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Social Welfare
	P. Dayaratna		United National Party	14 March 1991
	A. H. M. Fowzie		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	19 August 1994			D. B. Wijetunga	Minister of Health and Social Services
	Milroy Fernando		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	19 October 2000			Chandrika Kumaratunga	Minister of Social Services and Fishing Community Housing Development
	Nimal Siripala de Silva		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	14 September 2001				Minister of Health, Indigenous Medicine and Social Services
	Sumedha G. Jayasena		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	10 April 2004				Minister of Women's Empowerment and Social Welfare
	Douglas Devananda		Eelam People's Democratic Party	23 November 2005			Mahinda Rajapaksa	Minister of Social Services and Social Welfare
	Felix Perera		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	23 April 2010				Minister of Social Services
	P. Harrison		United National Party	12 January 2015	17 August 2015		Maithripala Sirisena	Minister of Social Services, Welfare and Livestock Development
	S. B. Dissanayake		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	4 September 2015	22 May 2017			Minister of Social Empowerment and Welfare
				22 May 2017				Minister of Social Empowerment, Welfare and Kandyan Heritage

Secretaries

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Social Services Secretaries

Name	Took office	Left office	Title	Refs
W. Yamuna Chitrangani	25 April 2010		Social Services Secretary
D. K. R. Ekanayake	19 January 2015		Social Services, Welfare and Livestock Secretary
Mahinda Seneviratne	8 September 2015		Social Empowerment and Social Services Secretary