New Secretaries appointed to two Ministries

October 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM

The government has appointed new secretaries to the Ministry of Ports and Civil Aviation and the Ministry of Women and Child Affairs.

W.W.S. Mangala, a Special Grade Officer of the Sri Lanka Planning Service, has been appointed as the Secretary to the Ministry of Ports and Civil Aviation. 

Mangala previously served as the Director General of Planning (Disaster Management) at the Ministry of Defence.

Meanwhile, W.M.D.T. Wickramasinghe, a Special Grade Officer of the Sri Lanka Administrative Service, has been appointed as the Secretary to the Ministry of Women and Child Affairs.

Wickramasinghe previously served as the Additional Secretary to the Ministry of Plantation and Community Infrastructure.

Their letters of appointment were handed over to the newly appointed Secretaries by the Secretary to the President, Nandika Sanath Kumanayake, at the Presidential Secretariat today (15). (Newswire)