Below are the list of all railway ministers of India, appointed to head Indian Railways, the premier transport organization of the country is the largest rail network in Asia and the world’s second largest under one management:
Years | Railway Minister |
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1947 | (Nov.) John Mathai (not formally designated the Minister for Railways) presents the first Railway budget for independent India |
1948-1952 | N Gopalaswamy Ayyangar; worked on consolidating the various railways into the zonal railways |
1952-1956 | Lal Bahadur Shastri; resigned in 1956 taking responsibility for three fatal railway accidents |
1956-1962 | Jagjivan Ram |
1962 | Sardar Swaran Singh |
1967?? | Kengal Hanumanthaiah (Note: Some sources suggest he was Railway Minister later, in 1971). Ram Sew Singh is also mentioned in some sources as a railway minister in 1966-1968, he may not have been a Cabinet minister for railways. |
1968 | Cheppudira Muthana Poonacha |
1969 | Govinda Menon Panampilly |
1970-1971 | Gulzari Lal Nanda Note: Kengal Hanumanthaiah may have been the Railway Minister briefly in 1971. |
1972-1973 | Tonse Ananth Pai |
1973-1975 | Lalit Narayan Mishra; killed by a bomb blast 2-Jan-1975, at the opening of a railway line in Samastipur. |
1975-1977 | Kamlapati Tripathi (again briefly in 1980?) |
1977-1979 | Prof. Madhu Dandavate |
1980-1981 | Kedar Pandey (Kamlapathi Tripathi briefly in 1980) |
(1981?) 1982-1984 | ABA Ghani Khan Chowdhury. |
1984 | Bansi Lal; his was a brief stint during a reorganization of some ministries and government departments |
(1985?) 1984-1989 | Madhav Rao Scindia |
1989-1990 | George Fernandes |
1990-1991 | Jnaneshwar Mishra; very short tenure |
1991-1995 | C K Jaffer Sharief |
1995-1996 | Suresh Kalmadi (briefly), followed by Atal Behari Vajpayee also briefly, who held the Railways portfolio along with being PM. |
1996-1998 | Ram Vilas Paswan |
1998-1999 | Nitish Kumar |
2000 | Mamata Banerjee |
2001-2004 | Nitish Kumar |
2004-2009 | Laloo Prasad Yadav |
2009- | Mamata Banerjee |
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