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Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 23 April 2010 - 9 January 2015 Mahinda Rajapaksa: Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resources Management Duminda Dissanayake: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 12 January 2015 - 22 March 2015 Maithripala Sirisena: Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resources Management Gamini Vijith Vijithamuni Soysa: Sri Lanka Freedom Party
He was promoted through the ranks and at the age of 50 became Director of Irrigation. [3] He retired on 4 February 1985. [1] Ponrajah died on 26 January 1986. [1] In 1988 the Irrigation Department published a book containing a collection of technical notes written by Ponrajah during his career. [1]
Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 27 July 2005: Minister of Agriculture [35] Maithripala Sirisena: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 23 November 2005: Mahinda Rajapaksa: Minister of Agriculture, Environment, Irrigation and Mahaweli Development [36] 28 January 2007: Minister of Agricultural Development and Agrarian Services [37] [38] [39] Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena ...
In 1965, it became a division under the Ministry of Local Government. From 1970, this division functioned as a separate department under the Ministry of Irrigation, Power and Highways and remained so until the present board was established in January 1975 by an act of Parliament of Sri Lanka.
The irrigation works in ancient Sri Lanka were some of the most complex irrigation systems of the ancient world. The earliest examples of irrigation works in Sri Lanka date from about 430 BCE, during the reign of King Pandukabhaya , and were under continuous development for the next thousand years.
The Ministry of Environment [2] (Sinhala: පරිසර අමාත්යාංශය; Tamil: சுற்றாடல் அமைச்சு) is the cabinet ministry of the Government of Sri Lanka with oversight of the environment and the Mahaweli Development programme, as well as the general development of the Mahaweli River, its environs and communities living within defined ...
The Ministry of Wildlife and Forest Resources Conservation [2] (Sinhala: වනජීවී හා වන සම්සත් සංරක්ෂණ අමාත් ...
The institute was founded under the name International Irrigation Management Institute (IIMI) in 1985 by the Ford Foundation and the Government of Sri Lanka, supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research and the World Bank.