Minister of Human Resource Development
| Minister of Education | |
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| Śikṣā Mantrī | |
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| Ministry of Education | |
| Member of | Union Cabinet |
| Reports to | President of India Prime Minister of India Parliament of India |
| Residence | New Delhi, India |
| Nominator | Prime Minister of India |
| Appointer | President of India on the advice of the Prime Minister |
| Term length | 5 year |
| Formation | 15 August 1947 |
The minister of education, formerly the minister of human resources development (1985–2020),[1] is the head of the Ministry of Education and one of the cabinet ministers of the Government of India.
Cabinet ministers
- Note: MoS, I/C – Minister of State (Independent Charge)
| # | Portrait | Minister (Birth-Death) Constituency | Term of office | Political party | Ministry | Prime Minister | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| From | To | Period | |||||||
| Minister of Education | |||||||||
| 1 |  | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (1888–1958) MP for United Provinces (1947–1952) MP for Rampur (1952–1957) | 15 August 1947 | 13 May 1952 | 9 years, 245 days | Indian National Congress | Nehru I | Jawaharlal Nehru | |
| 13 May 1952 | 17 April 1957 | Nehru II | |||||||
| Minister of Education and Scientific Research | |||||||||
| (1) | | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (1888–1958) MP for Gurgaon | 17 April 1957 | 22 February 1958 | 280 days | Indian National Congress | Nehru III | Jawaharlal Nehru | |
| 2 |  | K. L. Shrimali (1909–2000) Rajya Sabha MP for Rajasthan (MoS) | 22 February 1958 | 10 April 1962 | 4 years, 47 days | ||||
| Minister of Education | |||||||||
| (2) | | K. L. Shrimali (1909–2000) Rajya Sabha MP for Rajasthan | 10 April 1962 | 31 August 1963 | 1 year, 143 days | Indian National Congress | Nehru IV | Jawaharlal Nehru | |
| 3 |  | Humayun Kabir (1906–1969) MP for Basirhat | 31 August 1963 | 21 November 1963 | 82 days | ||||
| 4 |  | M. C. Chagla (1900–1981) Rajya Sabha MP for Maharashtra | 21 November 1963 | 27 May 1964 | 2 years, 357 days | ||||
| 27 May 1964 | 9 June 1964 | Nanda I | Gulzarilal Nanda (Acting) | ||||||
| 9 June 1964 | 11 January 1966 | Shastri | Lal Bahadur Shastri | ||||||
| 11 January 1966 | 24 January 1966 | Nanda II | Gulzarilal Nanda (Acting) | ||||||
| 24 January 1966 | 13 November 1966 | Indira I | Indira Gandhi | ||||||
| 5 |  | Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (1905–1977) Rajya Sabha MP for Assam | 14 November 1966 | 13 March 1967 | 119 days | ||||
| 6 |  | Triguna Sen (1905–1998) Rajya Sabha MP for Tripura | 16 March 1967 | 14 February 1969 | 1 year, 335 days | Indira II | |||
| Minister of Education and Youth Services | |||||||||
| 7 | V. K. R. V. Rao (1908–1991) MP for Bellary | 14 February 1969 | 18 March 1971 | 2 years, 32 days | Indian National Congress (R) | Indira II | Indira Gandhi | ||
| Minister of Education and Culture | |||||||||
| 8 |  | Siddhartha Shankar Ray (1920–2010) MP for Raiganj | 18 March 1971 | 20 March 1972 | 1 year, 2 days | Indian National Congress (R) | Indira III | Indira Gandhi | |
| 9 |  | Saiyid Nurul Hasan (1921–1993) Rajya Sabha MP for Uttar Pradesh (MoS, I/C) | 24 March 1972 | 24 March 1977 | 5 years, 0 days | ||||
| 10 |  | Pratap Chandra Chunder (1919–2008) MP for Calcutta North East | 24 March 1977 | 28 July 1979 | 2 years, 126 days | Janata Party | Desai | Morarji Desai | |
| 11 |  | Karan Singh (born 1931) MP for Udhampur | 28 July 1979 | 14 January 1980 | 170 days | Indian National Congress (Urs) | Charan Singh | Charan Singh | |
| 12 |  | B. Shankaranand (1925–2009) MP for Chikkodi | 14 January 1980 | 17 October 1980 | 277 days | Indian National Congress (I) | Indira IV | Indira Gandhi | |
| 13 |  | Shankarrao Chavan (1920–2004) MP for Nanded | 17 October 1980 | 8 August 1981 | 295 days | ||||
| 14 |  | Sheila Kaul (1915–2015) MP for Raebareli (MoS, I/C) | 8 August 1981 | 31 October 1984 | 3 years, 145 days | ||||
| 31 October 1984 | 31 December 1984 | Rajiv I | Rajiv Gandhi | ||||||
| Minister of Education | |||||||||
| 15 |  | K. C. Pant (1931–2012) MP for New Delhi | 31 December 1984 | 25 September 1985 | 268 days | Indian National Congress (I) | Rajiv II | Rajiv Gandhi | |
| Minister of Human Resource Development | |||||||||
| 16 |  | P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004) MP for Ramtek | 25 September 1985 | 25 June 1988 | 2 years, 274 days | Indian National Congress (I) | Rajiv II | Rajiv Gandhi | |
| 16 |  | P. Shiv Shankar (1929–2017) Rajya Sabha MP for Gujarat | 25 June 1988 | 2 December 1989 | 1 year, 160 days | ||||
| – |  | V. P. Singh (1931–2008) MP for Fatehpur (Prime Minister) | 2 December 1989 | 10 November 1990 | 343 days | Janata Dal | V. P. Singh | V. P. Singh | |
| 18 | Raj Mangal Pande (1920–1993) MP for Deoria | 21 November 1990 | 21 June 1991 | 212 days | Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) | Chandra Shekhar | Chandra Shekhar | ||
| 19 |  | Arjun Singh (1930–2011) MP for Satna | 23 June 1991 | 24 December 1994 | 3 years, 184 days | Indian National Congress (I) | Rao | P. V. Narasimha Rao | |
| – | | P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004) MP for Nandyal (Prime Minister) | 24 December 1994 | 9 February 1995 | 47 days | ||||
| 20 |  | Madhavrao Scindia (1945–2001) MP for Gwalior | 9 February 1995 | 17 January 1996 | 342 days | ||||
| – | | P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004) MP for Nandyal (Prime Minister) | 17 January 1996 | 16 May 1996 | 120 days | ||||
| – |  | Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018) MP for Lucknow (Prime Minister) | 16 May 1996 | 1 June 1996 | 16 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Vajpayee I | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | |
| 21 |  | S. R. Bommai (1927–2007) Rajya Sabha MP for Odisha | 5 June 1996 | 21 April 1997 | 1 year, 286 days | Janata Dal | Deve Gowda | H. D. Deve Gowda | |
| 21 April 1997 | 18 March 1998 | Gujral | Inder Kumar Gujral | ||||||
| 22 |  | Murli Manohar Joshi (born 1934) MP for Allahabad | 19 March 1998 | 13 October 1999 | 6 years, 64 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Vajpayee II | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | |
| 13 October 1999 | 22 May 2004 | Vajpayee III | |||||||
| (19) | | Arjun Singh (1930–2011) Rajya Sabha MP for Madhya Pradesh | 23 May 2004 | 22 May 2009 | 4 years, 364 days | Indian National Congress | Manmohan I | Manmohan Singh | |
| 23 |  | Kapil Sibal (born 1948) MP for Chandni Chowk | 28 May 2009 | 28 October 2012 | 3 years, 153 days | Manmohan II | |||
| 24 |  | M. M. Pallam Raju (born 1962) MP for Kakinada | 28 October 2012 | 26 May 2014 | 1 year, 210 days | ||||
| 25 |  | Smriti Irani (born 1976) Rajya Sabha MP for Gujarat | 27 May 2014 | 5 July 2016 | 2 years, 39 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Modi I | Narendra Modi | |
| 26 |  | Prakash Javadekar (born 1951) Rajya Sabha MP for Madhya Pradesh, till 2018 Rajya Sabha MP for Maharashtra, from 2018 | 5 July 2016 | 30 May 2019 | 2 years, 329 days | ||||
| 27 |  | Ramesh Pokhriyal (born 1959) MP for Haridwar | 31 May 2019 | 29 July 2020 | 1 year, 59 days | Modi II | |||
| Minister of Education | |||||||||
| (27) | | Ramesh Pokhriyal (born 1959) MP for Haridwar | 29 July 2020 | 7 July 2021 | 343 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Modi II | Narendra Modi | |
| 28 |  | Dharmendra Pradhan (born 1969) MP for Sambalpur | 7 July 2021 | Incumbent | 3 years, 205 days | ||||
| Modi III | |||||||||
Ministers of state
| # | Portrait | Minister (Birth-Death) Constituency | Term of office | Political party | Ministry | Prime Minister | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| From | To | Period | |||||||
| Minister of State for Education and Scientific Research | |||||||||
| 1 | | K. L. Shrimali (1909–2000) Rajya Sabha MP for Rajasthan (MoS) | 17 April 1957 | 22 February 1958 | 280 days | Indian National Congress | Nehru III | Jawaharlal Nehru | |
| Minister of State for Education | |||||||||
| 2 |  | Ramchandra Martand Hajarnavis (1908–1976) MP for Bhandara (Minister of Cultural Affairs) | 13 June 1964 | 29 October 1965 | 1 year, 138 days | Indian National Congress | Shastri | Lal Bahadur Shastri | |
| 3 |  | Sher Singh Kadyan (1917–2009) MP for Rohtak | 13 March 1967 | 14 February 1969 | 1 year, 338 days | Indira II | Indira Gandhi | ||
| 4 |  | Bhagwat Jha Azad (1922–2011) MP for Bhagalpur | |||||||
| Minister of State for Education and Youth Services | |||||||||
| 5 |  | Bhakt Darshan (1912–1991) MP for Garhwal | 18 February 1969 | 18 March 1971 | 2 years, 28 days | Indian National Congress (R) | Indira II | Indira Gandhi | |
| Minister of State for Education and Culture | |||||||||
| 6 | | Saiyid Nurul Hasan (1921–1993) Rajya Sabha MP for Uttar Pradesh | 4 October 1971 | 24 March 1972 | 172 days | Indian National Congress (R) | Indira III | Indira Gandhi | |
| 7 | Dhanna Singh Gulshan MP for Bathinda | 14 August 1977 | 28 July 1979 | 1 year, 348 days | Janata Party | Desai | Morarji Desai | ||
| 8 |  | Renuka Devi Barkataki (1932–2017) MP for Gauhati | 16 August 1977 | 1 year, 346 days | |||||
| 9 |  | Rashida Haque Choudhury MP for Silchar | 30 July 1979 | 14 January 1980 | 168 days | Janata Party (Secular) | Charan Singh | Charan Singh | |
| 10 | | Sheila Kaul (1915–2015) MP for Raebareli | 24 November 1980 | 8 August 1981 | 257 days | Indian National Congress (I) | Indira IV | Indira Gandhi | |
| Minister of State for Human Resource Development | |||||||||
| 11 |  | Margaret Alva (born 1942) Rajya Sabha MP for Karnataka (Women and Child Development, Youth Affairs and Sports) | 25 September 1985 | 2 December 1989 | 4 years, 68 days | Indian National Congress (I) | Rajiv II | Rajiv Gandhi | |
| 12 |  | Sushila Rohatgi (1921–2011) Rajya Sabha MP for Uttar Pradesh (Education and Culture) | 12 May 1986 | 229 days | |||||
| 13 |  | Krishna Sahi (born 1931) MP for Begusarai (Education and Culture, until 1988; Culture, from 1988) | 12 May 1986 | 2 December 1989 | 3 years, 204 days | ||||
| 14 | Laliteshwar Prasad Shahi (1920–2018) MP for Muzaffarpur (Education and Culture, until 1989; Education, from 1989) | 14 February 1988 | 1 year, 291 days | ||||||
| 15 |  | M. G. K. Menon (1928–2016) Rajya Sabha MP for Rajasthan (Education) | 20 January 1990 | 23 April 1990 | 93 days | Janata Dal | V. P. Singh | V. P. Singh | |
| 16 | Chimanbhai Mehta (1925–2010) Rajya Sabha MP for Gujarat | 23 April 1990 | 10 November 1990 | 201 days | |||||
| 17 |  | Bhagey Gobardhan (1934–1993) MP for Mayurbhanj | 21 November 1990 | 20 February 1991 | 91 days | Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) | Chandra Shekhar | Chandra Shekhar | |
| 18 |  | Mamata Banerjee (born 1955) MP for Calcutta South (Youth Affairs and Sports; Women and Child Development) | 21 June 1991 | 17 January 1993 | 1 year, 210 days | Indian National Congress (I) | Rao | P. V. Narasimha Rao | |
| 19 |  | Mukul Wasnik (born 1959) MP for Buldhana (Youth Affairs and Sports) | 18 January 1993 | 16 May 1996 | 3 years, 119 days | ||||
| 20 |  | Basavarajeshwari (1921–2008) MP for Bellary | 19 January 1993 | 15 September 1995 | 2 years, 239 days | ||||
| 21 |  | Selja Kumari (born 1962) MP for Sirsa (Education and Culture) | 15 September 1995 | 16 May 1996 | 244 days | ||||
| 22 |  | Krupasindhu Bhoi (born 1942) MP for Sambalpur (Education) | |||||||
| 23 |  | Vimla Verma (1929–2019) MP for Seoni (Women and Child Development) | |||||||
| 24 |  | Kanti Singh (born 1957) MP for Bikramganj | 1 June 1996 | 29 June 1996 | 28 days | Janata Dal | Deve Gowda | H. D. Deve Gowda | |
| 25 | Muhi Ram Saikia (1923–2007) MP for Nowgong (Education) | 29 June 1996 | 21 April 1997 | 296 days | Asom Gana Parishad | ||||
| 26 | R. Dhanuskodi Athithan (born 1953) MP for Tiruchendur (Youth Affairs and Sports) | Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar) | |||||||
| (25) | Muhi Ram Saikia (1923–2007) MP for Nowgong (Education) | 21 April 1997 | 19 March 1998 | 332 days | Asom Gana Parishad | Gujral | Inder Kumar Gujral | ||
| (26) | R. Dhanuskodi Athithan (born 1953) MP for Tiruchendur (Youth Affairs and Sports) | 1 May 1997 | 322 days | Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar) | |||||
| 27 |  | Uma Bharti (born 1959) MP for Khajuraho | 19 March 1998 | 13 October 1999 | 1 year, 208 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Vajpayee II | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | |
| 28 |  | Sumitra Mahajan (born 1943) MP for Indore | 13 October 1999 | 1 July 2002 | 2 years, 261 days | Vajpayee III | |||
| 29 | Jaisingrao Gaikwad Patil (born 1949) MP for Beed | 27 May 2000 | 227 days | ||||||
| 30 |  | Syed Shahnawaz Hussain (born 1968) MP for Kishanganj | 30 September 2000 | 8 February 2001 | 131 days | ||||
| 31 |  | Rita Verma (born 1953) MP for Dhanbad | 1 September 2001 | 29 January 2003 | 1 year, 150 days | ||||
| 32 |  | Jaskaur Meena (born 1947) MP for Dausa | 29 January 2003 | 22 May 2004 | 1 year, 114 days | ||||
| 33 | Ashok Kumar Pradhan (born 1953) MP for Khurja | 29 January 2003 | 24 May 2003 | 115 days | |||||
| 34 |  | Vallabhbhai Kathiria (born 1954) MP for Rajkot | 30 January 2003 | 9 January 2004 | 344 days | ||||
| 35 | Sanjay Paswan (born 1962) MP for Nawada | 24 May 2003 | 22 May 2004 | 364 days | |||||
| 36 |  | Mohammad Ali Ashraf Fatmi (born 1956) MP for Darbhanga (School Education and Literacy) | 23 May 2004 | 22 May 2009 | 4 years, 364 days | Rashtriya Janata Dal | Manmohan I | Manmohan Singh | |
| (24) | | Kanti Singh (born 1957) MP for Arrah (Higher Education) | 23 May 2004 | 29 January 2006 | 1 year, 251 days | ||||
| 37 |  | Daggubati Purandeswari (born 1959) MP for Bapatla (till 2009) MP for Visakhapatnam (from 2009) (Higher Education) | 29 January 2006 | 22 May 2009 | 3 years, 113 days | Indian National Congress | |||
| 28 May 2009 | 28 October 2012 | 3 years, 153 days | Manmohan II | ||||||
| 38 |  | E. Ahamed (1938–2017) MP for Malappuram (School Education and Literacy) | 12 July 2011 | 1 year, 108 days | Indian Union Muslim League | ||||
| 39 |  | Jitin Prasada (born 1973) MP for Dhaurahra | 28 October 2012 | 26 May 2014 | 1 year, 210 days | Indian National Congress | |||
| 40 |  | Shashi Tharoor (born 1956) MP for Thiruvananthapuram | |||||||
| 41 |  | Upendra Kushwaha (born 1960) MP for Karakat (School Education and Literacy) | 9 November 2014 | 11 December 2018 | 4 years, 32 days | Rashtriya Lok Samta Party | Modi I | Narendra Modi | |
| 42 |  | Ram Shankar Katheria (born 1964) MP for Agra (Higher Education) | 5 July 2016 | 1 year, 239 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||||
| 43 |  | Mahendra Nath Pandey (born 1957) MP for Chandauli (Higher Education) | 5 July 2017 | 3 September 2017 | 60 days | ||||
| 44 |  | Satya Pal Singh (born 1955) MP for Baghpat (Higher Education) | 3 September 2017 | 30 May 2019 | 1 year, 269 days | ||||
| 45 |  | Sanjay Shamrao Dhotre (born 1959) MP for Akola | 31 May 2019 | 29 July 2020 | 1 year, 59 days | Modi II | |||
| Minister of State for Education | |||||||||
| 45 | | Sanjay Shamrao Dhotre (born 1959) MP for Akola | 29 July 2020 | 7 July 2021 | 343 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Modi II | Narendra Modi | |
| 46 |  | Annpurna Devi (born 1970) MP for Kodarma (School Education and Literacy) | 7 July 2021 | 9 June 2024 | 2 years, 338 days | ||||
| 47 |  | Subhas Sarkar (born 1953) MP for Bankura (Higher Education) | |||||||
| 48 |  | Rajkumar Ranjan Singh (born 1952) MP for Inner Manipur (Higher Education) | |||||||
| 49 |  | Sukanta Majumder (born 1979) MP for Balurghat (Higher Education) | 10 June 2024 | Incumbent | 232 days | Modi III | |||
| 50 |  | Jayant Chaudhary (born 1978) Rajya Sabha MP for Uttar Pradesh (Higher Education) | 10 June 2024 | Incumbent | 232 days | Rashtriya Lok Dal | |||
References
- ^ "HRD Ministry Renamed as Ministry of Education as Modi Cabinet Reverses Change Made by Rajiv Gandhi". News18. 29 July 2020. Retrieved 29 July 2020.