Minister of Railways (India)
The Minister of Railways is the head of the Ministry of Railways of the Government of India. The railway minister is usually accorded a cabinet rank, and is responsible for Indian Railways, one of the largest employers in the world. An important responsibility of the railway minister was to present in Parliament the Railway Budget, the Annual Financial Statement of Indian Railways.
| Minister of Railways | |
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 Emblem of India | |
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| Member of | Cabinet of India |
| Appointer | President on the advice of the Prime Minister |
| Inaugural holder | John Mathai |
| Formation | 15 August 1947 |
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Piyush Goyal of the Bharatiya Janata Party is the current Minister of Railways.
List of railway ministers
| № | Name | Portrait | Term of office | Political party (Alliance) |
Prime Minister | ||
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| 1 | John Mathai |  |
15 August 1947 | 22 September 1948 | Indian National Congress | Jawaharlal Nehru | |
| 2 | N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar |  |
22 September 1948 | 13 May 1952 | |||
| 3 | Lal Bahadur Shastri | .jpg) |
13 May 1952 | 7 December 1956 | |||
| 4 | Jagjivan Ram |  |
7 December 1956 | 10 April 1962 | |||
| 5 | Swaran Singh | 10 April 1962 | 21 September 1963 | ||||
| 6 | H. C. Dasappa | 21 September 1963 | 8 June 1964 | ||||
| 7 | S. K. Patil | 9 June 1964 | 12 March 1967 | Lal Bahadur Shastri Indira Gandhi | |||
| 8 | C. M. Poonacha |  |
13 March 1967 | 14 February 1969 | Indira Gandhi | ||
| 9 | Ram Subhag Singh |  |
14 February 1969 | 4 November 1969 | |||
| 10 | Panampilly Govinda Menon |  |
4 November 1969 | 18 February 1970 | |||
| 11 | Gulzarilal Nanda | .jpg) |
18 February 1970 | 17 March 1971 | |||
| 12 | K. Hanumanthaiah | 18 March 1971 | 22 July 1972 | ||||
| 13 | T. A. Pai | 23 July 1972 | 4 February 1973 | ||||
| 14 | Lalit Narayan Mishra | 5 February 1973 | 2 January 1975 | ||||
| 15 | Kamalapati Tripathi | 11 February 1975 | 23 March 1977 | ||||
| 16 | Madhu Dandavate | 26 March 1977 | 28 July 1979 | Janata Party | Morarji Desai | ||
| (13) | T. A. Pai | 30 July 1979 | 13 January 1980 | Janata Party (Secular) | Charan Singh | ||
| (15) | Kamalapati Tripathi | 14 January 1980 | 12 November 1980 | Indian National Congress | Indira Gandhi | ||
| 17 | Kedar Pandey | 12 November 1980 | 14 January 1982 | ||||
| 18 | Prakash Chandra Sethi | 15 January 1982 | 2 September 1982 | ||||
| 19 | A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury | 2 September 1982 | 31 December 1984 | Indira Gandhi Rajiv Gandhi | |||
| 20 | Bansi Lal | 31 December 1984 | 25 September 1985 | Rajiv Gandhi | |||
| (20) | Bansi Lal (As Minister of Transport) |
25 September 1985 | 4 June 1986 | ||||
| 21 | Mohsina Kidwai (As Minister of Transport) |
24 June 1986 | 21 October 1986 | ||||
| 22 | Madhavrao Scindia (MoS, Independent Charge) |
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22 October 1986 | 1 December 1989 | |||
| 23 | George Fernandes | .jpg) |
5 December 1989 | 10 November 1990 | Janata Dal | V. P. Singh | |
| 24 | Janeshwar Mishra | 21 November 1990 | 21 June 1991 | Samajwadi Janata Party | Chandra Shekhar | ||
| 25 | C. K. Jaffer Sharief | .JPG) |
21 June 1991 | 16 October 1995 | Indian National Congress | P. V. Narasimha Rao | |
| 26 | Ram Vilas Paswan |  |
1 June 1996 | 19 March 1998 | Janata Dal (United Front) |
H. D. Deve Gowda I. K. Gujral | |
| 27 | Nitish Kumar |  |
19 March 1998 | 5 August 1999 | Samata Party (NDA) |
Atal Bihari Vajpayee | |
| 28 | Ram Naik |  |
6 August 1999 | 12 October 1999 | Bharatiya Janata Party (NDA) |
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| 29 | Mamata Banerjee |  |
13 October 1999 | 15 March 2001 | All India Trinamool Congress (NDA) |
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| (27) | Nitish Kumar | |
20 March 2001 | 22 May 2004 | Janata Dal (United) (NDA) |
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| 30 | Lalu Prasad Yadav |  |
23 May 2004 | 22 May 2009 | Rashtriya Janata Dal (UPA) |
Manmohan Singh | |
| (29) | Mamata Banerjee | |
23 May 2009 | 19 May 2011 | All India Trinamool Congress (UPA) |
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| 31 | Dinesh Trivedi |  |
12 July 2011 | 19 March 2012 | |||
| 32 | Mukul Roy |  |
20 March 2012 | 22 September 2012 | |||
| 33 | C. P. Joshi | 22 September 2012 | 28 October 2012 | Indian National Congress (UPA) |
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| 34 | Pawan Kumar Bansal |  |
29 October 2012 | 10 May 2013 | |||
| (33) | C. P. Joshi | 13 May 2013 | 14 June 2013 | ||||
| 35 | Mallikarjun Kharge |  |
17 June 2013 | 26 May 2014 | |||
| 36 | D. V. Sadananda Gowda |  |
26 May 2014 | 9 November 2014 | Bharatiya Janata Party (NDA) |
Narendra Modi | |
| 37 | Suresh Prabhu |  |
9 November 2014 | 3 September 2017 | |||
| 38 | Piyush Goyal | .jpg) |
4 September 2017 | Incumbent | |||
| If the office of Minister of Railways is vacant for any length of time, it automatically comes under the charge of the Prime Minister. | |||||||
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References
- Railway Ministers of Independent India at the Indian Railways Fan Club
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