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The Ministry of Railways in India is in charge of the Indian Railways, an organisation that operates as a monopoly in rail transport in India. Dinesh Trivedi is the current minister responsible for railways....
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List of railway ministers
| Railway Ministers | ||||
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| Name | Term | Party | Notes | |
| John Mathai John Mathai John Matthai was an economist who served as India's first Railway Minister and subsequently as India's Finance Minister, taking office shortly after the presentation of India's first Budget, in 1948. Mathai graduated in economics from Madras Christian College. He served as a part-time professor in... |
1947 | Congress | (not formally designated the Minister for Railways) presents the first Railway budget for independent India | |
| N Gopalaswamy Ayyangar | 1948–1952 | Congress | worked on consolidating the various railways into the zonal railways | |
| Lal Bahadur Shastri Lal Bahadur Shastri Lal Bahadur Srivastava Shastri was the second Prime Minister of the Republic of India and a significant figure in the Indian independence movement.-Early life:... |
1952–1956Bold text | Congress | Resigned in 1956 taking responsibility for three fatal railway accidents | |
| Jagjivan Ram Jagjivan Ram Babu Jagjivan Ram , known popularly as Babuji, was a freedom fighter and a social reformer hailing from the scheduled castes of Bihar in India. He was from the Chamar caste and was a leader for his community... |
1956–1962 | Congress | ||
| Sardar Swaran Singh Sardar Swaran Singh Sardar Swaran Singh was an Indian politician. He was India's longest serving union cabinet minister.- Early life :Saradar Swaran Singh was born on 19th August 1907 in Shankar Village in Jallandhar District of Punjab. He was born into an agricultural family.... |
1962 | Congress | ||
| Kengal Hanumanthaiah Kengal Hanumanthaiah Kengal Hanumanthaiah was the chief minister of the old Mysore State in India from 30 March 1952 to 19 August 1956... or Ram Sew Singh? |
1967 | Congress | Some sources suggest he was Railway Minister later, in 1971). Ram Sew Singh is also mentioned in some sources as a railway minister in 1966-1968, he may not have been a Cabinet minister for railways. | |
| C. M. Poonacha | 1968 | Congress | ||
| Panampilly Govinda Menon Panampilly Govinda Menon Panampilly Govinda Menon was an Indian politician, freedom fighter, and lawyer. He was born at Chalakudy and started his lawyer practice there as a junior to Adv. M. C. Joseph . He was the first treasurer of Kerala Yukthivadi Sangham. He moved his practice to Ernakulam afterwards... |
1969 | Congress | ||
| Gulzari Lal Nanda | 1970–1971 | Congress | Kengal Hanumanthaiah may have been the Railway Minister briefly in 1971 | |
| Tonse Madhav Ananth Pai | 1972–1973 | Congress | ||
| Lalit Narayan Mishra Lalit Narayan Mishra Lalit Narayan Mishra was railway minister of India from 1973 to 1975. He was brought into politics by the first Chief Minister of Bihar, Bihar Kesari Sri Krishna Sinha when he was made parliamentary secretary at his insistence to the First Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. In... |
1973–1975 | Congress | killed by a bomb blast 2-Jan-1975, at the opening of a railway line in Samastipur | |
| Kamalpati Tripathi | 1975–1977 | Congress | ||
| Prof. Madhu Dandavate Madhu Dandavate Madhu Dandavate was an Indian politician.He was born in a Deshastha family. He was popularly known as an Economist.... |
1977–1979 | Janta Party | ||
| Kedar Pandey Kedar Pandey Kedar Pandey was an Indian freedom fighter and Indian National Congress politician, who remained the Chief Minister of Bihar, member of the Lok Sabha and Minister of Railways in Union Cabinet Government of India. He was chief minister from March 1972 to July 1973.-References:... |
1980–1981 | Congress | ||
| A. B. A. Ghani Khan Chowdhury | (1981?) 1982–1984 | Congress | ||
| Bansi Lal Bansi Lal Chaudhary Bansi Lal was an Indian freedom fighter, senior Congress leader, former Chief Minister of Haryana and considered by many to be the architect of modern Haryana. He was born in a Jat family of Golagarh village in Bhiwani district of Haryana. He served three separate terms as Chief... |
1984 | Congress | A brief stint during a reorganization of some ministries and government departments | |
| Madhav Rao Scindia | 1984–1989 | Congress | ||
| George Fernandes George Fernandes George Mathew Fernandes is an Indian trade unionist, politician, journalist, agriculturist, and member of Rajya Sabha from Bihar. He is a key member of the Janata Dal , and was the founder of the Samata Party... |
1989–1990 | National Front | ||
| Janeshwar Mishra Janeshwar Mishra Janeshwar Mishra was a politician from Samajwadi Party. He was member of the Parliament of India representing Uttar Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament... |
1990–1991 | Very short tenure as MoS | ||
| C. K. Jaffer Sheriff | 1991–1995 | Congress | ||
| Suresh Kalmadi Suresh Kalmadi Suresh Kalmadi is an Indian politician and senior sports administrator. He was formerly a member of the Indian National Congress... |
1995–1996 | Congress | followed by Atal Behari Vajpayee also briefly, who held the Railways portfolio along with being PM | |
| Ram Vilas Paswan Ram Vilas Paswan Ram Vilas Paswan is the president of the Lok Janshakti Party and a Rajya Sabha MP.-Early life and education:Paswan was born to a Dusadh family... |
1996–1998 | United Front | ||
| Nitish Kumar Nitish Kumar Nitish Kumār is an Indian politician currently serving as Chief Minister of Bihar, an eastern state of India. He leads the Janata Dal party... |
1998–1999 | |||
| Mamata Banerjee Mamata Banerjee Mamata Banerjee is the 11th and current chief minister of the Indian state of West Bengal. She is the first woman to hold the office. Banerjee founded All India Trinamool Congress in 1997 and became chairperson, after separating from the Indian National Congress... |
1999–2000 | NDA | ||
| Nitish Kumar Nitish Kumar Nitish Kumār is an Indian politician currently serving as Chief Minister of Bihar, an eastern state of India. He leads the Janata Dal party... |
2001–2004 | NDA | ||
| Laloo Prasad Yadav | 2004–2009 | UPA | ||
| Mamata Banerjee Mamata Banerjee Mamata Banerjee is the 11th and current chief minister of the Indian state of West Bengal. She is the first woman to hold the office. Banerjee founded All India Trinamool Congress in 1997 and became chairperson, after separating from the Indian National Congress... |
2009–2011 | UPA | Mamata Banerjee resigned from the Railway Ministry on May 19, 2011, after she became the Chief Minister of West Bengal. | |
| Manmohan Singh Manmohan Singh Manmohan Singh is the 13th and current Prime Minister of India. He is the only Prime Minister since Jawaharlal Nehru to return to power after completing a full five-year term. A Sikh, he is the first non-Hindu to occupy the office. Singh is also the 7th Prime Minister belonging to the Indian... |
2011 | UPA | Manmohan Singh, briefly, who held the Railways portfolio along with being PM | |
| Kulwant Singh | 2011–Incumbent Incumbent The incumbent, in politics, is the existing holder of a political office. This term is usually used in reference to elections, in which races can often be defined as being between an incumbent and non-incumbent. For example, in the 2004 United States presidential election, George W... |
UPA | ||