Union Government ministries of India

The Government of India exercises its executive authority through a number of government ministries or departments of state. A ministry is composed of employed officials, known as civil servants, and is politically accountable through a minister. Most major ministries are headed by a Cabinet Minister, who sits in the Union Council of Ministers, and is typically supported by a team of junior ministers.

List of Union Government ministries

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Ministry name Established Minister responsible Minister rank[lower-alpha 1]
Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare 1947 Radha Mohan Singh Cabinet
Ministry of AYUSH 9 November 2014 Shripad Yasso Naik
Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers 5 June 1991 Ananth Kumar
Ministry of Civil Aviation Ashok Gajapathi Raju
Ministry of Coal Piyush Goyal MoS (I)
Ministry of Commerce and Industry Nirmala Sitharaman
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology Ravishankar Prasad
Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Ram Vilas Paswan
Ministry of Corporate Affairs Arun Jaitley
Ministry of Culture Mahesh Sharma
Ministry of Defence Manohar Parrikar
Ministry of Earth Sciences Dr. HarshVardhan
Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change Anil Madhav Dave
Ministry of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj
Ministry of Finance Arun Jaitley
Ministry of Food Processing Industries Harsimrat Kaur Badal
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Jagat Prakash Nadda
Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Anant Geete
Ministry of Home Affairs Rajnath Singh
Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Venkaiah Naidu
Ministry of Human Resource Development Prakash Javadekar
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Venkaiah Naidu
Ministry of Labour and Employment Bandaru Dattatreya
Ministry of Law and Justice Ravi Shankar Prasad
Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Kalraj Mishra
Ministry of Mines Piyush Goyal
Ministry of Minority Affairs Muqtar Abbas Naqui
Ministry of New and Renewable Energy Piyush Goyal
Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs Sushma Swaraj
Ministry of Panchayati Raj Narendra Singh Tomar
Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs Ananth Kumar
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Narendra Modi
Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan
Ministry of Power Piyush Goyal
Ministry of Railways Suresh Prabhu
Ministry of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari
Ministry of Rural Development Narendra Singh Tomar
Ministry of Science & Technology Dr. Harsh Vardhan
Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment Thavar Chand Gehlot
Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation D.V Sadananda Gowda
Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Ravij Pratap Rudy
Ministry of Steel Chaudhary Birendra Singh
Ministry of Textiles Smriti Irani
Ministry of Tourism Dr. Mahesh Sharma
Ministry of Tribal Affairs Jual Oram
Ministry of Urban Development M.Venkaiah Naidu
Ministry of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation Sushri Uma Bharti
Ministry of Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi
Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports Vijay Goel

Defunct ministries

The following ministries once functioned, but have since become defunct, generally because of a merger with another ministry or division into new ministries.

Ministry name Established Defunct Fate
Ministry of Agriculture-Surendra Kumar August 1947 1 February 1951 Merged to constitute the Ministry of Food and Agriculture.[1]
Ministry of Food 29 August 1947
Ministry of Food and Agriculture 1 February 1951 October 1956 Bifurcated into the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Food.
Ministry of Agriculture October 1956 17 April 1957 Merged once again to form the Ministry of Food and Agriculture.[1]
Ministry of Food
Ministry of Food and Agriculture 17 April 1957 January 1966 Merged with the Ministry of Community Development and Cooperation to form the Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Community Development and Cooperation. The new ministry was renamed the Ministry of Agriculture in 1971, with four departments.[1]
Ministry of Agriculture January 1966 1983 The Department of Food was separated from the ministry, and elevated to the new Ministry of Food and Civil Supplies.[1]
Ministry of Food and Civil Supplies 1983 June 1991 Bifurcated into the Ministry of Food and the Ministry of Civil Supplies.[1]
Ministry of Food June 1991 4 June 1997 Merged to form Ministry of Food and Consumer Affairs with three departments - Department of Food & Civil Supplies, Department of Sugar and Edible Oils and Department of Consumer Affairs. On 15 October 1999, the new ministry was renamed as the Ministry of Consumer Affairs & Public Distribution, having the same three departments. On 17 July 2000, the Ministry of Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution was renamed as the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, with two departments - Department of Food & Public Distribution and Department of Consumer Affairs.[1]
Ministry of Civil Supplies
Ministry of National Resources and Scientific Research 1951 [2]
Ministry of Irrigation and Power 1952 November 1974 Bifurcated into a separate Department of Irrigation under the reconstituted Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation, and a separate ministry.[2]
Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation November 1974 22 July 1980 Following the formation of the Ministry of Irrigation in June 1980, three items of work were transferred from the ministry to the new ministry, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation was renamed the Ministry of Agriculture.[2]
Ministry of Energy and Irrigation January 1980 9 June 1980 Bifurcated into the Ministry of Energy and the Department of Irrigation (which was brought under the ministry in January 1980) was elevated to the new Ministry of Irrigation.[2]
Ministry of Irrigation 9 June 1980 January 1985 Merged with the Ministry of Power to once again, form the Ministry of Irrigation and Power.[2]
Ministry of Irrigation and Power January 1985 September 1985 Bifurcated into the Ministry of Power and the Department of Irrigation was re-constituted as the Ministry of Water Resources. On 31 July 2014, the Ministry of Water Resources was renamed as Ministry of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation.[2]
Ministry of Surface Transport 22 October 1986 17 November 2000 Bifurcated into the Ministry of Shipping and the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.
Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Agro and Rural Industries October 1999 September 2001 Bifurcated into the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries and the Ministry of Small Scale Industries.
Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries September 2001 2007 Merged with the Ministry of Small Scale Industries to form the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.
Ministry of Small Scale Industries September 2001 2007 Merged with the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries to form the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.

Independent departments

The following are independent departments of the Government of India that are not under any union ministry.

Notes

  1. ↑ Cabinet : Cabinet rank
    MoS : Minister of State
    MoS (I) : Minister of State with Independent Charge

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "History". dfpd.nic.in. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Ministry of Water Resources, Government of India". wrmin.nic.in. Retrieved 2016-06-06.

See also

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