Ministry of Civil Aviation (India)

The Ministry of Civil Aviation (Naagar Vimaan Mantraalay) in India is the nodal ministry responsible for the formulation of national policies and programmes for the development and regulation of civil aviation. It devises and implements schemes for the orderly growth and expansion of civil air transport in the country. The mandate of this ministry also extend to overseeing airport facilities, air traffic services and carriage of passengers and goods by air. The ministry also administers the implementation of the Bharatiya Vayuyan Adhiniyam, 2024, Aircraft Rules, 1937 and is administratively responsible for the Commission of Railway Safety.

Ministry of Civil Aviation

Branch of Government of India
Ministry of Civil Aviation
Agency overview
Formed	1947; 78 years ago (1947)
Jurisdiction	Government of India
Headquarters	Rajiv Gandhi Bhawan New Delhi
Annual budget	₹3,113.50 crore (US$370 million) (2023–24 est.)[1]
Ministers responsible	Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu, Union Cabinet Minister Murlidhar Kisan Mohol, Minister of State
Agency executive	Samir Kumar Sinha, IAS
Website	www.civilaviation.gov.in

Organisation

The ministry has under its ownership the following central government establishments:

Statutory bodies

• Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA)^[2]
• Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB)
• Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS)
• Airports Economic Regulatory Authority (AERA)
• Airports Authority of India (AAI)^[2]

Attached offices

• Commission of Railway Safety^[3] - The commission is the rail safety authority in India, as directed by the 1989 Railways Act. The agency investigates rail accidents.^[3]

Training institutions

• Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi (IGRUA)^[2]
• National Aviation University (NAU)

Central Public Sector Undertakings

1. Pawan Hans
2. AI Assets Holding Limited
3. Hotel Corporation of India Limited, a subsidiary of AI Assets Holding Ltd.
4. AI Engineering Services Limited Official Website

Aircraft projects

• Civil Aviation Department RG-1 Rohini
• Civil Aviation Department MG-1
• Civil Aviation Department Mrigasheer
• Civil Aviation Department Revathi
• Hindustan Ardhra

Cabinet ministers

No.	Portrait		Minister (Birth-Death) Constituency	Term of office			Political party	Ministry	Prime Minister
				From	To	Period
Minister in the Department of Civil Aviation, Ministry of Communications
1			Hari Vinayak Pataskar (1892–1970) MP for Jalgaon (MoS)	7 December 1956	16 April 1957	130 days	Indian National Congress	Nehru II		Jawaharlal Nehru
Ministry disestablished during this interval[a]
Minister of Civil Aviation
2			Satya Narayan Sinha (1900–1983) MP for Samastipur	9 June 1964	13 June 1964	4 days	Indian National Congress	Shastri		Lal Bahadur Shastri
3			Nityanand Kanungo (1900–1988) MP for Cuttack (MoS)	13 June 1964	31 July 1965	1 year, 48 days
4			Raj Bahadur (1912–1990) MP for Bharatpur	31 July 1965	11 January 1966	164 days
				11 January 1966	24 January 1966			Nanda II		Gulzarilal Nanda
Ministry disestablished during this interval[b]
Minister of Tourism and Civil Aviation
5			Karan Singh (born 1931) MP for Udhampur	16 March 1967	18 March 1971	4 years, 2 days	Indian National Congress	Indira II		Indira Gandhi
				18 March 1971	9 November 1973		Indian National Congress (R)	Indira III
(4)			Raj Bahadur (1912–1990) MP for Bharatpur	9 November 1973	22 December 1976	3 years, 43 days
6			Kotha Raghuramaiah (1912–1979) MP for Guntur	23 December 1976	24 March 1977	91 days
7			Purushottam Kaushik (1930–2017) MP for Raipur	26 March 1977	15 July 1979	2 years, 111 days	Janata Party	Desai		Morarji Desai
–			Morarji Desai (1896–1995) MP for Surat (Prime Minister)	16 July 1979	28 July 1979	12 days
8			Mohammad Shafi Qureshi (1928–2016) MP for Anantnag	30 July 1979	14 January 1980	168 days	Janata Party (Secular)	Charan		Charan Singh
9			Janaki Ballabh Patnaik (1927–2015) MP for Cuttack	14 January 1980	7 June 1980	145 days	Indian National Congress (I)	Indira IV		Indira Gandhi
10			Anant Sharma (1919–1988) Rajya Sabha MP for Bihar	8 June 1980	2 September 1982	2 years, 86 days
Minister of Civil Aviation
11			Bhagwat Jha Azad (1922–2011) MP for Bhagalpur (MoS, I/C)	2 September 1982	14 February 1983	165 days	Indian National Congress (I)	Indira IV		Indira Gandhi
Minister of Tourism and Civil Aviation
12			Khurshed Alam Khan (1919–2013) MP for Farrukhabad (MoS, I/C)	14 February 1983	31 October 1984	1 year, 316 days	Indian National Congress (I)	Indira IV		Indira Gandhi
				4 November 1984	31 December 1984			Rajiv I		Rajiv Gandhi
–			Rajiv Gandhi (1944–1991) MP for Amethi (Prime Minister)	31 December 1984	25 September 1985	268 days		Rajiv II
Ministry disestablished during this interval[c]
Minister of Civil Aviation
13			Jagdish Tytler (born 1944) MP for Delhi Sadar (MoS, I/C)	22 October 1986	14 February 1988	1 year, 115 days	Indian National Congress (I)	Rajiv II		Rajiv Gandhi
14			Motilal Vora (1928–2020) Rajya Sabha MP for Madhya Pradesh	14 February 1988	25 June 1988	132 days
Minister of Civil Aviation and Tourism
15			Shivraj Patil (born 1935) MP for Latur (MoS, I/C)	25 June 1988	2 December 1989	1 year, 160 days	Indian National Congress (I)	Rajiv II		Rajiv Gandhi
Minister of Civil Aviation
–			Vishwanath Pratap Singh (1931–2008) MP for Fatehpur (Prime Minister)	2 December 1989	5 December 1989	3 days	Janata Dal	Vishwanath		Vishwanath Pratap Singh
16			Arif Mohammad Khan (born 1951) MP for Bahraich	6 December 1989	10 November 1990	339 days
17			Harmohan Dhawan (1940–2024) MP for Chandigarh (MoS, I/C)	21 November 1990	21 June 1991	212 days	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)	Chandra Shekhar		Chandra Shekhar
Minister of Civil Aviation and Tourism
18			Madhavrao Scindia (1945–2001) MP for Gwalior	21 June 1991	9 January 1993	1 year, 202 days	Indian National Congress (I)	Rao		P. V. Narasimha Rao
19			Ghulam Nabi Azad (born 1949) Rajya Sabha MP for Maharashtra	9 January 1993	16 May 1996	3 years, 128 days
20			V. Dhananjay Kumar (1951–2019) MP for Mangalore	16 May 1996	1 June 1996	16 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Vajpayee I		Atal Bihari Vajpayee
21			C. M. Ibrahim (born 1948) Rajya Sabha MP for Karnataka	1 June 1996	29 June 1996	28 days	Janata Dal	Deve Gowda		H. D. Deve Gowda
Minister in the Department of Civil Aviation				29 June 1996	21 April 1997	296 days
21A			C. M. Ibrahim (born 1948) Rajya Sabha MP for Karnataka
Minister in the Department of Tourism
21B			Srikant Kumar Jena (born 1950) MP for Kendrapara
Minister in the Department of Civil Aviation				21 April 1997	19 March 1998	332 days		Gujral		Inder Kumar Gujral
(21A)			C. M. Ibrahim (born 1948) Rajya Sabha MP for Karnataka
Minister in the Department of Tourism
(21B)			Srikant Kumar Jena (born 1950) MP for Kendrapara
Minister of Civil Aviation
22			Ananth Kumar (1959–2018) MP for Bangalore South	19 March 1998	13 October 1999	1 year, 208 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Vajpayee II		Atal Bihari Vajpayee
23			Sharad Yadav (1947–2023) MP for Madhepura	13 October 1999	1 September 2001	1 year, 323 days	Samata Party	Vajpayee III
24			Syed Shahnawaz Hussain (born 1968) MP for Kishanganj	1 September 2001	24 May 2003	1 year, 265 days	Bharatiya Janata Party
25			Rajiv Pratap Rudy (born 1962) MP for Chapra (MoS, I/C)	24 May 2003	22 May 2004	364 days
26			Praful Patel (born 1957) Rajya Sabha MP for Maharashtra (MoS, I/C)	23 May 2004	22 May 2009	6 years, 235 days	Nationalist Congress Party	Manmohan I		Manmohan Singh
				28 May 2009	19 January 2011			Manmohan II
27			Vayalar Ravi (born 1937) Rajya Sabha MP for Kerala	19 January 2011	18 December 2011	333 days	Indian National Congress
28			Ajit Singh (1939–2021) MP for Baghpat	18 December 2011	26 May 2014	2 years, 159 days	Rashtriya Lok Dal
29			Pusapati Ashok Gajapathi Raju (born 1951) MP for Vizianagaram	27 May 2014	9 March 2018	3 years, 286 days	Telugu Desam Party	Modi I		Narendra Modi
–			Narendra Modi (born 1950) MP for Varanasi (Prime Minister)	9 March 2018	10 March 2018	1 day	Bharatiya Janata Party
30			Suresh Prabhu (born 1953) Rajya Sabha MP for Andhra Pradesh	10 March 2018	30 May 2019	1 year, 81 days
31			Hardeep Singh Puri (born 1952) Rajya Sabha MP for Uttar Pradesh (MoS, I/C)	31 May 2019	7 July 2021	2 years, 37 days		Modi II
32			Jyotiraditya Scindia (born 1971) Rajya Sabha MP for Madhya Pradesh	7 July 2021	9 June 2024	2 years, 338 days
33			Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu (born 1987) MP for Srikakulam	10 June 2024	Incumbent	1 year, 66 days	Telugu Desam Party	Modi III

Ministers of State

No.	Portrait		Minister (Birth-Death) Constituency	Term of office			Political party	Ministry	Prime Minister
				From	To	Period
Minister of State for Tourism and Civil Aviation
1			Sarojini Mahishi (1927–2015) MP for Dharwad North	2 May 1971	10 October 1974	3 years, 161 days	Indian National Congress (R)	Indira III		Indira Gandhi
2			Surendra Pal Singh (1917–2009) MP for Bulandshahr	10 October 1974	23 December 1976	2 years, 74 days
3			P. Ankineedu Prasada Rao (1929–1997) MP for Bapatla	4 August 1979	27 November 1979	115 days	Indian National Congress (U)	Charan		Charan Singh
4			Kartik Oraon (1924–1981) MP for Lohardaga	14 January 1980	8 June 1980	146 days	Indian National Congress (I)	Indira IV		Indira Gandhi
5			Chandulal Chandrakar (1920–1995) MP for Durg	8 June 1980	15 January 1982	1 year, 221 days
6			Khurshed Alam Khan (1919–2013) MP for Farrukhabad	15 January 1982	2 September 1982	230 days
Minister of State for Tourism and Civil Aviation
7			Ashok Gehlot (born 1951) MP for Jodhpur	31 December 1984	24 August 1985	236 days	Indian National Congress (I)	Rajiv II		Rajiv Gandhi
Minister of State for Civil Aviation and Tourism
8			M. O. H. Farook (1937–2012) MP for Pondicherry	21 June 1991	2 July 1992	1 year, 11 days	Indian National Congress (I)	Rao		P. V. Narasimha Rao
Minister of State in the Department of Civil Aviation
(8)			M. O. H. Farook (1937–2012) MP for Pondicherry	2 July 1992	17 January 1996	3 years, 199 days
9B			G. Y. Krishnan (1929–2001) Rajya Sabha MP for Karnataka	15 September 1995	16 May 1996	244 days
Minister of State in the Department of Tourism
9A			Sukhbans Kaur Bhinder (1943–2006) MP for Gurdaspur	2 July 1992	16 May 1996	3 years, 319 days
Minister of State for Civil Aviation
10			Jayanthi Natarajan (born 1954) Rajya Sabha MP for Tamil Nadu	9 June 1997	19 March 1998	283 days	Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar)	Gujral		Inder Kumar Gujral
11			Chaman Lal Gupta (1934–2021) MP for Udhampur	13 October 1999	1 September 2001	1 year, 323 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Vajpayee III		Atal Bihari Vajpayee
12			Shripad Naik (born 1952) MP for Panaji	1 July 2002	24 May 2003	327 days
13			K. C. Venugopal (born 1963) MP for Alappuzha	28 October 2012	26 May 2014	1 year, 210 days	Indian National Congress	Manmohan II		Manmohan Singh
14			G. M. Siddeshwara (born 1952) MP for Davanagere	26 May 2014	9 November 2014	167 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Modi I		Narendra Modi
15			Mahesh Sharma (born 1959) MP for Gautam Buddh Nagar	9 November 2014	5 July 2016	1 year, 239 days
16			Jayant Sinha (born 1963) MP for Hazaribagh	5 July 2016	30 May 2019	2 years, 329 days
17			General V. K. Singh (Retd.) PVSM AVSM YSM ADC (born 1950) MP for Ghaziabad	7 July 2021	10 June 2024	4 years, 39 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Modi II
18			Murlidhar Mohol (born 1974) MP for Pune	10 June 2024	Incumbent	1 year, 67 days		Modi III

See also

• India portal
• Aviation portal

• Aviation in India
• DigiYatra

Notes

1. The matters pertaining to the Department of Civil Aviation were placed under the Ministry of Transport and Communications from 1957 till 1963 and thereupon under the Ministry of Transport from 1963.
2. The Ministry of Civil Aviation was merged with the Ministry of Transport and Aviation.
3. The Ministry of Civil Aviation was merged into the Ministry of Transport as the Department of Civil Aviation.