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Ministry overview
Jurisdiction	Government of Sri Lanka
Headquarters	79/1 5th Lane, Colombo 6°54′19.90″N 79°51′20.50″E / 6.9055278°N 79.8556944°E / 6.9055278; 79.8556944
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

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. 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. The ministry's secretary is Wasantha Deshapriya.

Ministers

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

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

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
	John Kotelawala			1936	1945
	C. Sittampalam		Independent	26 September 1947			D. S. Senanayake	Minister of Posts and Telecommunication
					1952		Dudley Senanayake
	Mahanama Samaraweera		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	28 May 1963			Sirimavo Bandaranaike	Minister of Communications
	Anil Moonesinghe		Lanka Sama Samaja Party	11 June 1964
	Montague Jayawickrama		United National Party				Dudley Senanayake	Minister of Public Works, Posts and Telecommunications
	Leslie Goonewardene		Lanka Sama Samaja Party	31 May 1970	1977		Sirimavo Bandaranaike	Minister of Posts and Telecommunications
	Shelton Jayasinghe		United National Party	23 July 1977			J. R. Jayewardene
	D. B. Wijetunga		United National Party
	Alick Aluwihare		United National Party	18 February 1989	14 March 1991		Ranasinghe Premadasa
	A. M. S. Adhikari		United National Party	14 March 1991
	Mangala Samaraweera		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	19 August 1994			D. B. Wijetunga
	Nimal Siripala de Silva		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	19 October 2000			Chandrika Kumaratunga
	Indika Gunawardena		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	14 September 2001
	D. M. Jayaratne		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	10 April 2004				Minister of Post, Telecommunications and Udarata Development
				23 November 2005			Mahinda Rajapaksa	Minister of Posts and Telecommunication
	Rauff Hakeem		Sri Lanka Muslim Congress	28 January 2007	December 2007
	Jeewan Kumaranatunga		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	23 April 2010
	Ranjith Siyambalapitiya		Sri Lanka Freedom Party	22 November 2010				Minister of Telecommunication and Information Technology
	Harin Fernando		United National Party	4 September 2015	25 February 2018		Maithripala Sirisena	Minister of Telecommunication and Digital Infrastructure
				25 February 2018				Minister of Telecommunication, Digital Infrastructure and Foreign Employment

Secretaries

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

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External links

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