List of Governors of Southern Province
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The Governor of Southern Province
, Sri Lanka
has the management of the Southern Provincial Council. Some of its key functions include exercising powers vested in the Governor by the Provincial Council Act No. 42 of 1987 amended by Act No. 28 of 1990 and the 13th Amendment to the Constitution.
Southern Province, Sri Lanka
The Southern Province of Sri Lanka is a small geographic area consisting of the districts of Galle, Matara and Hambantota. The region is economically backward compared to the Western province, where the capital Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte is situated...
, Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...
has the management of the Southern Provincial Council. Some of its key functions include exercising powers vested in the Governor by the Provincial Council Act No. 42 of 1987 amended by Act No. 28 of 1990 and the 13th Amendment to the Constitution.
Governors
| No. | |Took Office | Mohammed Abdul Bakeer Markar Mohammed Abdul Bakeer Markar Deshamanya Mohammed Abdul Bakeer Markar was the first Member of Parliament to represent Beruwala from March 1960 to April 1960, the Member of Parliament for Beruwala from April 1965 to March 1970, the Deputy Speaker of the Parliament from August 4, 1977 to September 7, 1978, the Speaker of the... | 13 June 1988 | December, 1993 |
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| 2 | Leslie Mervyn Jayaratna | December, 1993 | December, 1994 | |
| 3 | Neville Kanakeratne Neville Kanakeratne Deshamanya Neville Kanakeratne is a Sri Lankan lawyer, diplomat and scholar, who was the former Governor of the Southern Province. He was the Sri Lankan Ambassador to the United States and High Commissioner to India.... |
January, 1995 | 20 September 1999 | |
| 4 | Ananda Dassanayake | 1999 | 2002 | |
| 5 | Kingsley Tissa Wickramaratne | 1 February 2002 | 23 October 2006 | |
| 6 | Kumari Balasuriya | 23 October 2006 | Present |