List of Governors of Western Province
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The Governor of Western Province
, Sri Lanka
has the management of the Western 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.
Western Province, Sri Lanka
The Western Province is the most densely populated province of Sri Lanka. It is home to the legislative capital Sri Jayawardenapura as well to Colombo, the nation's administrative and business center.-Districts:Basnahira is divided into 3 districts:...
, 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 Western 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 | Suppiah Sharvananda Suppiah Sharvananda Suppiah Sharvananda was a Chief Justice of Sri Lanka and the first Governor of the Western Province.-Early life:... | 6 June 1988 | 10 June 1994 |
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| 2 | D. M. Swaminathan D. M. Swaminathan Deva Manoharan Swaminathan, MP is a Sri Lankan Lawyer and Politician. Current Member of Parliament, he was the former Governor of the Western Province and Chairman of the National Savings Bank.... |
11 July 1994 | 1 December 1994 | |
| 3 | K. Vignarajah | 3 January 1995 | 2 January 2000 | |
| 4 | P. Ramanathan | 21 January 2000 | 1 February 2002 | |
| 5 | Alavi Moulana | 1 February 2002 | Present |