Ministry of Information Technology (India)

The Ministry of Information Technology is a former cabinet-level ministry of the Government of India which was responsible for promoting internet, IT policy and strategy along with e-commerce and knowledge-based industries. The ministry also included the Department of Electronics and took over the Internet and e-commerce services from the Ministry of Communications. The ministry was established on 13 October 1999 by then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.^[1]

Ministry of Information Technology

Ministry overview
Formed	13 October 1999
Preceding Ministry	Ministry of Communications
Dissolved	22 December 2001
Superseding Ministry	Ministry of Communications and Information Technology
Jurisdiction	Government of India

The Ministry of Information Technology was merged with the Ministry of Communications to form the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology on 22 December 2001. In 2016, the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology was further bifurcated to form the Ministry of Communications and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. Upon the merger, the Department of Information Technology and later the Department of Electronics and IT was created.

Ministers

No.	Portrait		Minister (Birth-Death) Constituency	Term of office			Political party	Ministry	Prime Minister
				From	To	Period
–			Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018) MP for Lucknow (Prime Minister)	13 October 1999	22 November 1999	40 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Vajpayee III	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
1			Pramod Mahajan (1949–2006) Rajya Sabha MP for Maharashtra	22 November 1999	22 December 2001	2 years, 30 days