List of ministries and departments of the Government of India

The Government of India exercises its executive authority through a number of government ministries or departments of state. A ministry is composed of employed officials, known as civil servants, and is politically accountable through a minister . Most major ministries are headed by a Cabinet Minister, who sits in the Union Council of Ministers, and is typically supported by a team of junior ministers called the Ministers of State. A union minister also known as cabinet minister.

Some ministries have subdivisions called departments. For example, the Ministry of Communications has two departments - the Department of Telecommunications and Department of Posts.

Current Ministries

There are 54  Union ministries and 93  departments in India.^[1]

Ministry	Established	Cabinet Minister
Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare	1947	Shivraj Singh Chouhan
AYUSH	2014	Prataprao Jadhav
Chemicals and Fertilizers	1991	J. P. Nadda
Civil Aviation	1947	Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu
Coal	1973	G. Kishan Reddy
Commerce and Industry	1947	Piyush Goyal
Communications	2016	Jyotiraditya Scindia
Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution	1946	Pralhad Joshi
Co-operation	2021	Amit Shah
Corporate Affairs	2003	Nirmala Sitharaman
Culture	1999	Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
Defence	1947	Rajnath Singh
Development of North Eastern Region	2003	Jyotiraditya Scindia
Earth Sciences	2006	Dr. Jitendra Singh (Independent Charge)
Education	1985	Dharmendra Pradhan
Electronics and Information Technology	2016	Ashwini Vaishnaw
Environment, Forests and Climate Change	1985	Bhupender Yadav
External Affairs	1946	S. Jaishankar
Finance	1946	Nirmala Sitharaman
Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying	2019	Lalan Singh
Food Processing Industries	1988	Chirag Paswan
Health and Family Welfare	1947	J. P. Nadda
Heavy Industries	2021	H. D. Kumaraswamy
Home Affairs	1947	Amit Shah
Housing and Urban Affairs	2017	Manohar Lal Khattar
Information and Broadcasting	1947	Ashwini Vaishnaw
Jal Shakti	2019	C. R. Patil
Labour and Employment	1947	Mansukh Mandaviya
Law and Justice	1947	Arjun Ram Meghwal (Independent Charge)
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises	2007	Jitan Ram Manjhi
Mines	1957	G. Kishan Reddy
Minority Affairs	2006	Kiren Rijiju
New and Renewable Energy	1992	Pralhad Joshi
Panchayati Raj	2004	Lalan Singh
Parliamentary Affairs	1949	Kiren Rijiju
Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions	1970	Narendra Modi (Additional Charge)
Petroleum and Natural Gas	1991	Hardeep Singh Puri
Planning	2014	Rao Inderjit Singh (Independent Charge)
Ports, Shipping and Waterways	1947	Sarbananda Sonowal
Power	1992	Manohar Lal
Prime Minister's Office	1977	Narendra Modi (Additional Charge)
Railways	1947	Ashwini Vaishnaw
Road Transport and Highways	1942	Nitin Gadkari
Rural Development	1980	Shivraj Singh Chouhan
Science and Technology	1971	Dr. Jitendra Singh (Independent Charge)
Skill Development and Entrepreneurship	2014	Jayant Chaudhary
Social Justice and Empowerment	1985	Virendra Kumar Khatik
Statistics and Programme Implementation	1999	Rao Inderjit Singh (Independent Charge)
Steel	1957	H. D. Kumaraswamy
Textiles	1958	Giriraj Singh
Tourism	1999	Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
Tribal Affairs	1999	Jual Oram
Women and Child Development	1985	Annpurna Devi
Youth Affairs and Sports	2000	Mansukh Mandaviya

Independent departments

These are independent departments working under the direct supervision of the Prime Minister's Office.

• Department of Atomic Energy
• Department of Space

Former ministries

The following ministries once functioned, but have since become defunct, generally because of a merger with another ministry or division into new ministries.

Ministry name	Established	Defunct	Fate
Agriculture	August 1947	1 February 1951	Merged to constitute the Ministry of Food and Agriculture.[2]
Food	29 August 1947
Food and Agriculture	1 February 1951	October 1956	Bifurcated into the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Food.
Agriculture	October 1956	17 April 1957	Merged once again to form the Ministry of Food and Agriculture.[2]
Food
Food and Agriculture	17 April 1957	January 1966	Merged with the Ministry of Community Development and Cooperation to form the Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Community Development and Cooperation. The new ministry was renamed the Ministry of Agriculture in 1971, with four departments.[2]
Agriculture	January 1966	1983	The Department of Food was separated from the ministry, and elevated to the new Ministry of Food and Civil Supplies.[2]
Food and Civil Supplies	1983	June 1991	Bifurcated into the Ministry of Food and the Ministry of Civil Supplies.[2]
Food	June 1991	4 June 1997	Merged to form Ministry of Food and Consumer Affairs with three departments - Department of Food & Civil Supplies, Department of Sugar and Edible Oils and Department of Consumer Affairs. On 15 October 1999, the new ministry was renamed as the Ministry of Consumer Affairs & Public Distribution, having the same three departments. On 17 July 2000, the Ministry of Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution was renamed as the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, with two departments - Department of Food & Public Distribution and Department of Consumer Affairs.[2]
Civil Supplies
National Resources and Scientific Research	1951		[3]
Irrigation and Power	1952	November 1974	Bifurcated into a separate Department of Irrigation under the reconstituted Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation, and a separate ministry.[3]
Agriculture and Irrigation	November 1974	22 July 1980	Following the formation of the Ministry of Irrigation in June 1980, three items of work were transferred from the ministry to the new ministry, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation was renamed the Ministry of Agriculture.[3]
Energy and Irrigation	January 1980	9 June 1980	Bifurcated into the Ministry of Energy and the Department of Irrigation (which was brought under the ministry in January 1980) was elevated to the new Ministry of Irrigation.[3]
Irrigation	9 June 1980	January 1985	Merged with the Ministry of Power to once again, form the Ministry of Irrigation and Power.[3]
Irrigation and Power	January 1985	September 1985	Bifurcated into the Ministry of Power and the Department of Irrigation was re-constituted as the Ministry of Water Resources. On 31 July 2014, the Ministry of Water Resources was renamed as Ministry of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation.[3]
Surface Transport	22 October 1986	17 November 2000	Bifurcated into the Ministry of Shipping and the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.
Small Scale Industries and Agro and Rural Industries	October 1999	September 2001	Bifurcated into the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries and the Ministry of Small Scale Industries.
Agro and Rural Industries	September 2001	2007	Merged with the Ministry of Small Scale Industries to form the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.
Small Scale Industries	September 2001	2007	Merged with the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries to form the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.
Overseas Indian Affairs	May 2004	7 January 2016	Merged with the Ministry of External Affairs
Communications and Information Technology (India)	August 1947	5 July 2016	Bifurcated into the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and the Ministry of Communications (India)
Drinking Water and Sanitation	2011	30 May 2019	Merged with the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation and formed Ministry of Jal Shakti
Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation	September 1985	30 May 2019	Merged with Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation to form Ministry of Jal Shakti constituted with Department of Water Resources and Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation
Ministry of Urban Development		7 July 2017	Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
Minister of Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation	7 July 2017	7 July 2017	Ministry Of Housing and Urban Affairs

See also

• List of agencies of the government of India
• Union Council of Ministers

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