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Ministry of Transport and Highways

Transport Ministry in Sri Lanka

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ16056501 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Ministry of Transport and Highways (Sinhala: ප්‍රවාහන හා මහාමාර්ග අමාත්‍යාංශය; Tamil: போக்குவரத்து மற்றும் நெடுஞ்சாலைகள் அமைச்சு) is the central government ministry of Sri Lanka responsible for transport. The ministry is responsible for formulating and implementing national policy on transport and other subjects which come under its purview. The current Minister of Transport and Highways is Bimal Rathnayake. The ministry's secretary is Nihal Somaweera.

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The Minister of Transport and Highways is a member of the Cabinet of Sri Lanka.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Ministry of Transport and Highways” as transport Ministry in Sri Lanka. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Ministry, Transport and Highways.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 79-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Ministry, Transport and Highways providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Ministry of Transport and Highways”, the useful work is to connect “transport Ministry in Sri Lanka” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16056501. Authority coordinates are 6.927, 79.860. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ministry of Transport and Highways” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.