Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India)

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting is a ministerial level agency of the Government of India responsible for the formulation and administration of rules, regulations and laws in the areas of information, broadcasting, the press, and the cinema of India.^[3]

Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of India

Branch of Government of India
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
Agency overview
Formed	15 August 1947; 77 years ago (1947-08-15)
Jurisdiction	Government of India
Headquarters	New Delhi
Employees	4,012 (2016 est.)[1]
Annual budget	₹4,692 crore (US$550 million) (2023–24 est.)[2]
Minister responsible	Ashwini Vaishnaw, Minister of Information and Broadcasting
Deputy Minister responsible	L. Murugan, Minister of State
Agency executive	Sanjay Jaju, IAS, Information and Broadcasting Secretary
Website	www.mib.gov.in

The Ministry is responsible for the administration of the Press Information Bureau and Prasar Bharati, the broadcasting arm of the Indian Government. The Central Board of Film Certification is the other important statutory body subordinate to this ministry, responsible for the regulation and certification of motion pictures broadcast in India.

Organisation

• Broadcasting
  • Conditional Access System (CAS)
  • Community Radio Stations
  • Prasar Bharati
  • Doordarshan
  • Akashvani (All India Radio)
  • Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Limited
  • Uplinking / Downlinking of TV Channels
  • Content Regulation on Private TV Channels
  • Direct to Home (DTH)
  • Internet Protocol Television (IPTV)
  • Headend-in-the-Sky (HITS)
  • Digital television transition
  • Radio And Television Licence Around The World
  • Broadcasting Authority of India 1977
• Information
  • Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity (DAVP), Central Bureau of Communication (CBC)
  • Directorate of Field Publicity
  • Photo Division
  • Publications Division
  • Research Reference and Training Division
  • Song and Drama Division
  • Office of the Registrar of Newspapers for India (RNI)
  • Press Council of India
  • Press Information Bureau (PIB)
  • Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC)
• Films
  • Central Board of Film Certification
  • Film and Television Institute of India, Pune (FTII)
  • Film Certification Appellate Tribunal
  • Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI)
  • National Film Development Corporation

Mandate

The mandate of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting are:^[3]

• News services—both televised and broadcast through All India Radio (AIR) and Doordarshan (DD)
• Development of broadcasting and television
• Import and export of films
• Development and promotion of film industry
• Promotion and organisation of film festivals and cultural exchanges
• Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity (DAVP)
• Manage press relations to effectively communicate the policies of the Government of India and gather feedback on these policies
• Administration of the Press and Registration of Books Act, 1867 with respect to newspapers
• Dissemination of information about India within and outside the country through publications on matters of national importance
• Provide research, references, and training to support the media units of the Ministry in fulfilling their responsibilities
• Utilise interpersonal communication and traditional folk art forms to promote information and raise awareness on public interest issues through publicity campaigns
• Foster international cooperation in the areas of information and mass media

Civil service

Main article: Indian Information Service

The Indian Information Service (IIS) is a distinguished Group 'A' Civil Service open to candidates who successfully complete the UPSC Civil Service Examination. Serving as the media wing of the Government of India, IIS officers act as a crucial communication bridge between the government and the public. They work under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, playing an important role in information dissemination and public relations.

List of ministers

Cabinet ministers

Note:

• MoS (I/C) – Minister of State (Independent Charge)
• MoS – Minister of State

No.	Portrait		Minister (Birth-Death) Constituency	Term of office			Political party	Ministry	Prime Minister
				From	To	Period
1			Vallabhbhai Patel (1875–1950) Member, Constituent Assembly (Deputy Prime Minister)	15 August 1947	26 January 1950	2 years, 164 days	Indian National Congress	Nehru I	Jawaharlal Nehru
2			R. R. Diwakar (1894–1990) Member, Interim Parliament (MoS)	31 January 1950	13 May 1952	2 years, 103 days
3			B. V. Keskar (1908–1984) MP for Musafirkhana (Minister with cabinet rank, until 1957; MoS, until 1962)	13 May 1952	17 April 1957	9 years, 331 days		Nehru II
				17 April 1957	9 April 1962			Nehru III
4			Bezawada Gopala Reddy (1907–1997) MP for Kavali	10 April 1962	31 August 1963	1 year, 143 days		Nehru IV
5			Satya Narayan Sinha (1900–1983) MP for Samastipur	1 September 1963	27 May 1964	305 days
				27 May 1964	9 June 1964			Nanda I	Gulzarilal Nanda (acting)
				11 June 1964	2 July 1964			Shastri	Lal Bahadur Shastri
6			Indira Gandhi (1917–1984) Rajya Sabha MP for Uttar Pradesh	2 July 1964	11 January 1966	1 year, 344 days
				11 January 1966	24 January 1966	13 days		Nanda II	Gulzarilal Nanda (acting)
7			Raj Bahadur (1912–1990) MP for Bharatpur (MoS)	24 January 1966	13 March 1967	1 year, 48 days		Indira I	Indira Gandhi
8			Kodardas Kalidas Shah (1908–1986) Rajya Sabha MP for Maharashtra	13 March 1967	14 February 1969	1 year, 338 days		Indira II
(5)			Satya Narayan Sinha (1900–1983) MP for Darbhanga	14 February 1969	8 March 1971	2 years, 22 days	Indian National Congress (R)
(6)			Indira Gandhi (1917–1984) MP for Raebareli (Prime Minister)	18 March 1971	8 November 1973	2 years, 235 days		Indira III
9			Inder Kumar Gujral (1919–2012) Rajya Sabha MP for Punjab (MoS)	8 November 1973	28 June 1975	1 year, 232 days
10			Vidya Charan Shukla (1929–2013) MP for Raipur (MoS)	28 June 1975	24 March 1977	1 year, 269 days
11			Lal Krishna Advani (born 1927) Rajya Sabha MP for Gujarat	26 March 1977	28 July 1979	2 years, 124 days	Janata Party	Desai	Morarji Desai
12			Purushottam Kaushik (1930–2017) MP for Raipur	28 July 1979	14 January 1980	170 days	Janata Party (Secular)	Charan Singh	Charan Singh
13			Vasant Sathe (1925–2011) MP for Wardha	14 January 1980	2 September 1982	2 years, 231 days	Indian National Congress (Indira)	Indira IV	Indira Gandhi
14			N. K. P. Salve (1921–2012) Rajya Sabha MP for Maharashtra (MoS, I/C)	2 September 1982	14 January 1983	134 days
15			H. K. L. Bhagat (1921–2005) MP for East Delhi (MoS, I/C)	14 January 1983	31 October 1984	1 year, 352 days
				4 November 1984	31 December 1984			Rajiv I	Rajiv Gandhi
16			Vitthalrao Gadgil (1928–2001) MP for Pune (MoS, I/C)	31 December 1984	22 October 1986	1 year, 295 days		Rajiv II
17			Ajit Kumar Panja (1936–2008) MP for Calcutta North East (MoS, I/C)	22 October 1986	14 February 1988	1 year, 115 days
(15)			H. K. L. Bhagat (1921–2005) MP for East Delhi	14 February 1988	2 December 1989	1 year, 291 days
18			P. Upendra (1936–2009) Rajya Sabha MP for Andhra Pradesh	6 December 1989	10 November 1990	339 days	Telugu Desam Party	Vishwanath	V. P. Singh
19			Chandra Shekhar (1927–2007) MP for Ballia (Prime Minister)	21 November 1990	21 June 1991	212 days	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)	Chandra Shekhar	Chandra Shekhar
(17)			Ajit Kumar Panja (1936–2008) MP for Calcutta North East (MoS, I/C)	21 June 1991	18 January 1993	1 year, 211 days	Indian National Congress	Rao	P. V. Narasimha Rao
20			Brigadier Kamakhya Prasad Singh Deo AVSM (born 1941) MP for Dhenkanal (MoS, I/C)	18 January 1993	15 September 1995	2 years, 240 days
21			P. A. Sangma (1947–2016) MP for Tura	15 September 1995	16 May 1996	244 days
22			Sushma Swaraj (1952–2019) MP for South Delhi	16 May 1996	1 June 1996	16 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Vajpayee I	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
23			C. M. Ibrahim (born 1948) Rajya Sabha MP for Karnataka	1 June 1996	21 April 1997	334 days	Janata Dal	Deve Gowda	H. D. Deve Gowda
				21 April 1997	1 May 1997			Gujral	Inder Kumar Gujral
24			S. Jaipal Reddy (1942–2019) Rajya Sabha MP for Andhra Pradesh	1 May 1997	19 March 1998	322 days
(22)			Sushma Swaraj (1952–2019) MP for South Delhi	19 March 1998	11 October 1998	206 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Vajpayee II	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
25			Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018) MP for Lucknow (Prime Minister)	11 October 1998	5 December 1998	55 days
26			Pramod Mahajan (1949–2006) Rajya Sabha MP for Maharashtra	5 December 1998	13 October 1999	312 days
27			Arun Jaitley (1952–2019) Rajya Sabha MP for Gujarat (MoS, I/C)	13 October 1999	30 September 2000	353 days		Vajpayee III
(22)			Sushma Swaraj (1952–2019) Rajya Sabha MP for Uttar Pradesh, till 8 November 2000 Rajya Sabha MP for Uttarakhand, from 9 November 2000	30 September 2000	29 January 2003	2 years, 121 days
28			Ravi Shankar Prasad (born 1954) Rajya Sabha MP for Bihar (MoS, I/C)	29 January 2003	22 May 2004	1 year, 114 days
(24)			S. Jaipal Reddy (1942–2019) MP for Miryalguda	23 May 2004	18 November 2005	1 year, 179 days	Indian National Congress	Manmohan I	Manmohan Singh
29			Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi (1945–2017) MP for Raiganj	18 November 2005	11 November 2008	2 years, 359 days
30			Manmohan Singh (born 1932) Rajya Sabha MP for Assam (Prime Minister)	11 November 2008	22 May 2009	192 days
31			Ambika Soni (born 1942) Rajya Sabha MP for Punjab	28 May 2009	27 October 2012	3 years, 152 days		Manmohan II
32			Manish Tewari (born 1965) MP for Ludhiana (MoS, I/C)	28 October 2012	26 May 2014	1 year, 210 days
33			Prakash Javadekar (born 1951) Rajya Sabha MP for Madhya Pradesh (MoS, I/C)	27 May 2014	9 November 2014	99 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Modi I	Narendra Modi
(27)			Arun Jaitley (1952–2019) Rajya Sabha MP for Gujarat	9 November 2014	5 July 2016	1 year, 239 days
34			M. Venkaiah Naidu (born 1948) Rajya Sabha MP for Rajasthan	5 July 2016	18 July 2017	1 year, 13 days
35			Smriti Irani (born 1976) Rajya Sabha MP for Gujarat	18 July 2017	14 May 2018	300 days
36			Colonel Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore AVSM (born 1970) MP for Jaipur Rural (MoS, I/C)	14 May 2018	30 May 2019	1 year, 16 days
(33)			Prakash Javadekar (born 1951) Rajya Sabha MP for Maharashtra	31 May 2019	7 July 2021	2 years, 37 days		Modi II
37			Anurag Singh Thakur (born 1974) MP for Hamirpur	7 July 2021	9 June 2024	2 years, 338 days
38			Ashwini Vaishnaw (born 1970) Rajya Sabha MP for Odisha	10 June 2024	Incumbent	353 days		Modi III

Ministers of state

No.	Portrait		Minister (Birth-Death) Constituency	Term of office			Political party	Ministry	Prime Minister
				From	To	Period
1			R. R. Diwakar (1894–1990) Member, Constituent Assembly	7 October 1948	26 January 1950	1 year, 111 days	Indian National Congress	Nehru I	Jawaharlal Nehru
2			Inder Kumar Gujral (1919–2012) Rajya Sabha MP for Punjab	14 February 1971	18 March 1971	32 days		Indira II	Indira Gandhi
3			Sher Singh Kadyan (1917–2009) MP for Rohtak
4			Nandini Satpathy (1931–2006) Rajya Sabha MP for Odisha	18 March 1971	14 June 1972	1 year, 88 days	Indian National Congress (R)	Indira III
(2)			Inder Kumar Gujral (1919–2012) Rajya Sabha MP for Punjab	22 July 1972	8 November 1973	1 year, 109 days
5			Jagbir Singh Rajya Sabha MP for Uttar Pradesh	14 August 1977	11 July 1978	331 days	Janata Party	Desai	Morarji Desai
				26 January 1979	15 July 1979	170 days
6			Ram Dulari Sinha (1922–1994) MP for Sheohar	8 June 1980	19 October 1980	133 days	Indian National Congress (I)	Indira IV	Indira Gandhi
7			S. Krishna Kumar (born 1993) MP for Kollam	25 June 1988	2 December 1989	1 year, 160 days
8			Kamla Kant Tiwari MP for Buxar	22 April 1989	2 December 1989	224 days
9			Subodh Kant Sahay (born 1951) MP for Ranchi	21 November 1990	21 June 1991	212 days	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)	Chandra Shekhar	Chandra Shekhar
10			P. M. Sayeed (1941–2005) MP for Lakshadweep	15 September 1995	16 May 1996	244 days	Indian National Congress	Rao	P. V. Narasimha Rao
11			Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi (born 1957) MP for Rampur	20 March 1998	13 October 1999	1 year, 207 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Vajpayee II	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
12			Ramesh Bais (born 1947) MP for Raipur	30 September 2000	29 January 2003	2 years, 121 days		Vajpayee III
13			M. H. Ambareesh (1952–2018) MP for Mandya	24 October 2006	15 February 2007	142 days	Indian National Congress	Manmohan I	Manmohan Singh
14			Anand Sharma (born 1953) Rajya Sabha MP for Himachal Pradesh	18 October 2008	22 May 2009	216 days
15			Choudhury Mohan Jatua (born 1935) MP for Mathurapur	28 May 2009	22 September 2012	3 years, 117 days	All India Trinamool Congress	Manmohan II
16			S. Jagathrakshakan (born 1950) MP for Arakkonam	28 May 2009	28 October 2012	3 years, 153 days	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
17			Colonel Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore AVSM (born 1970) MP for Jaipur Rural	9 November 2014	14 May 2018	3 years, 186 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Modi I	Narendra Modi
18			L. Murugan (born 1977) Rajya Sabha MP for Madhya Pradesh	7 July 2021	Incumbent	3 years, 326 days		Modi II

Deputy ministers

No.	Portrait		Minister (Birth-Death) Constituency	Term of office			Political party	Ministry	Prime Minister
				From	To	Period
1			Sham Nath MP for Chandni Chowk	8 May 1962	27 May 1964	2 years, 32 days	Indian National Congress	Nehru IV	Jawaharlal Nehru
				27 May 1964	9 June 1964			Nanda I	Gulzarilal Nanda (acting)
2			C. R. Pattabhiraman (1906–2001) MP for Kumbakonam	15 June 1964	11 January 1966	1 year, 210 days		Shastri	Lal Bahadur Shastri
				11 January 1966	24 January 1966	13 days		Nanda II	Gulzarilal Nanda (acting)
3			Nandini Satpathy (1931–2006) Rajya Sabha MP for Odisha	29 January 1966	13 March 1967	3 years, 16 days		Indira I	Indira Gandhi
				18 March 1967	14 February 1969			Indira II
4			Dharam Bir Sinha (born 1932) MP for Barh	2 May 1971	23 March 1977	5 years, 325 days	Indian National Congress (R)	Indira III
5			Kumudben Joshi (1934–1922) Rajya Sabha MP for Gujarat	19 January 1980	15 January 1982	1 year, 361 days	Indian National Congress (I)	Indira IV
6			Mallikarjun Goud (1941–2002) MP for Mahabubnagar	15 January 1982	7 February 1984	2 years, 23 days
7			Arif Mohammad Khan (born 1951) MP for Bahraich	15 January 1982	29 January 1983	1 year, 14 days
8			Ghulam Nabi Azad (born 1949) MP for Washim	8 February 1984	31 October 1984	266 days
9			S. Krishna Kumar (born 1993) MP for Kollam	14 February 1988	25 June 1988	132 days		Rajiv II	Rajiv Gandhi
10			Girija Vyas (born 1946) MP for Udaipur	21 June 1991	17 March 1993	1 year, 210 days	Indian National Congress	Rao	P. V. Narasimha Rao
The position of Deputy Minister was abolished.

See also

• Censor Board of India
• Indian Information Service