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| 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 thePrime Minister |
| Term length | 5 years |
| Formation | 15 August 1947 |
| First holder | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad |
Theminister of education, formerly theminister of human resources development (1985–2020),[1] is the head of theMinistry of Education and one of the portfolios of theunion cabinet in theGovernment of India.
| # | 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 forUnited Provinces (1947–1952) MP forRampur (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 forGurgaon | 17 April 1957 | 22 February 1958 [†] | 280 days | Indian National Congress | Nehru III | Jawaharlal Nehru | |
| 2 |  | K. L. Shrimali (1909–2000) Rajya Sabha MP forRajasthan (MoS) | 22 February 1958 | 10 April 1962 | 4 years, 47 days | ||||
| Minister of Education | |||||||||
| (2) | | K. L. Shrimali (1909–2000) Rajya Sabha MP forRajasthan | 10 April 1962 | 31 August 1963 | 1 year, 143 days | Indian National Congress | Nehru IV | Jawaharlal Nehru | |
| 3 |  | Humayun Kabir (1906–1969) MP forBasirhat | 31 August 1963 | 21 November 1963 | 82 days | ||||
| 4 |  | M. C. Chagla (1900–1981) Rajya Sabha MP forMaharashtra | 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 forAssam | 14 November 1966 | 13 March 1967 | 119 days | ||||
| 6 |  | Triguna Sen (1905–1998) Rajya Sabha MP forTripura | 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 forBellary | 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 forRaiganj | 18 March 1971 | 20 March 1972 | 1 year, 2 days | Indian National Congress (R) | Indira III | Indira Gandhi | |
| 9 | .jpg) | Saiyid Nurul Hasan (1921–1993) Rajya Sabha MP forUttar Pradesh (MoS, I/C) | 24 March 1972 | 24 March 1977 | 5 years, 0 days | ||||
| 10 | .jpg) | Pratap Chandra Chunder (1919–2008) MP forCalcutta North East | 24 March 1977 | 28 July 1979 | 2 years, 126 days | Janata Party | Desai | Morarji Desai | |
| 11 |  | Karan Singh (born 1931) MP forUdhampur | 28 July 1979 | 14 January 1980 | 170 days | Indian National Congress (Urs) | Charan Singh | Charan Singh | |
| 12 |  | B. Shankaranand (1925–2009) MP forChikkodi | 14 January 1980 | 17 October 1980 | 277 days | Indian National Congress (I) | Indira IV | Indira Gandhi | |
| 13 | .jpg) | Shankarrao Chavan (1920–2004) MP forNanded | 17 October 1980 | 8 August 1981 | 295 days | ||||
| 14 |  | Sheila Kaul (1915–2015) MP forRaebareli (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 | .jpg) | K. C. Pant (1931–2012) MP forNew Delhi | 31 December 1984 | 25 September 1985 | 268 days | Indian National Congress (I) | Rajiv II | Rajiv Gandhi | |
| Minister of Human Resource Development | |||||||||
| 16 | (2).jpg) | P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004) MP forRamtek | 25 September 1985 | 25 June 1988 | 2 years, 274 days | Indian National Congress (I) | Rajiv II | Rajiv Gandhi | |
| 16 | .jpg) | P. Shiv Shankar (1929–2017) Rajya Sabha MP forGujarat | 25 June 1988 | 2 December 1989 | 1 year, 160 days | ||||
| 17 | .jpg) | V. P. Singh (1931–2008) MP forFatehpur (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 forDeoria | 21 November 1990 | 21 June 1991 | 212 days | Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) | Chandra Shekhar | Chandra Shekhar | ||
| 19 | .jpg) | Arjun Singh (1930–2011) MP forSatna | 23 June 1991 | 24 December 1994 | 3 years, 184 days | Indian National Congress (I) | Rao | P. V. Narasimha Rao | |
| 20 | | P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004) MP forNandyal (Prime Minister) | 24 December 1994 | 9 February 1995 | 47 days | ||||
| 21 |  | Madhavrao Scindia (1945–2001) MP forGwalior | 9 February 1995 | 17 January 1996 | 342 days | ||||
| – | | P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004) MP forNandyal (Prime Minister) | 17 January 1996 | 16 May 1996 | 120 days | ||||
| 22 | .jpg) | Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018) MP forLucknow (Prime Minister) | 16 May 1996 | 1 June 1996 | 16 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Vajpayee I | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | |
| 23 |  | S. R. Bommai (1927–2007) Rajya Sabha MP forOdisha | 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 | ||||||
| 24 |  | Murli Manohar Joshi (born 1934) MP forAllahabad | 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 forMadhya Pradesh | 23 May 2004 | 22 May 2009 | 4 years, 364 days | Indian National Congress | Manmohan I | Manmohan Singh | |
| 25 |  | Kapil Sibal (born 1948) MP forChandni Chowk | 28 May 2009 | 28 October 2012 | 3 years, 153 days | Manmohan II | |||
| 26 | .jpg) | M. M. Pallam Raju (born 1962) MP forKakinada | 28 October 2012 | 26 May 2014 | 1 year, 210 days | ||||
| 27 |  | Smriti Irani (born 1976) Rajya Sabha MP forGujarat | 26 May 2014 | 5 July 2016 | 2 years, 39 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Modi I | Narendra Modi | |
| 28 | .jpg) | Prakash Javadekar (born 1951) Rajya Sabha MP forMadhya Pradesh, till 2018 Rajya Sabha MP forMaharashtra, from 2018 | 5 July 2016 | 30 May 2019 | 2 years, 329 days | ||||
| 29 |  | Ramesh Pokhriyal (born 1959) MP forHaridwar | 31 May 2019 | 29 July 2020 | 1 year, 59 days | Modi II | |||
| Minister of Education | |||||||||
| (29) |  | Ramesh Pokhriyal (born 1959) MP forHaridwar | 29 July 2020 | 7 July 2021 | 343 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Modi II | Narendra Modi | |
| 30 | .jpg) | Dharmendra Pradhan (born 1969) MP forSambalpur | 7 July 2021 | Incumbent | 4 years, 144 days | ||||
| Modi III | |||||||||
| # | 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 forRajasthan (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 forBhandara (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 forRohtak | 13 March 1967 | 14 February 1969 | 1 year, 338 days | Indira II | Indira Gandhi | ||
| 4 |  | Bhagwat Jha Azad (1922–2011) MP forBhagalpur | |||||||
| Minister of State for Education and Youth Services | |||||||||
| 5 |  | Bhakt Darshan (1912–1991) MP forGarhwal | 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 forUttar Pradesh | 4 October 1971 | 24 March 1972 | 172 days | Indian National Congress (R) | Indira III | Indira Gandhi | |
| 7 | Dhanna Singh Gulshan MP forBathinda | 14 August 1977 | 28 July 1979 | 1 year, 348 days | Janata Party | Desai | Morarji Desai | ||
| 8 |  | Renuka Devi Barkataki (1932–2017) MP forGauhati | 16 August 1977 | 1 year, 346 days | |||||
| 9 |  | Rashida Haque Choudhury MP forSilchar | 30 July 1979 | 14 January 1980 | 168 days | Janata Party (Secular) | Charan Singh | Charan Singh | |
| 10 | | Sheila Kaul (1915–2015) MP forRaebareli | 24 November 1980 | 8 August 1981 | 257 days | Indian National Congress (I) | Indira IV | Indira Gandhi | |
| Minister of State for Human Resource Development | |||||||||
| 11 | .jpg) | Margaret Alva (born 1942) Rajya Sabha MP forKarnataka (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 forUttar Pradesh (Education and Culture) | 12 May 1986 | 229 days | |||||
| 13 |  | Krishna Sahi (born 1931) MP forBegusarai (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 forMuzaffarpur (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 forRajasthan (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 forGujarat | 23 April 1990 | 10 November 1990 | 201 days | |||||
| 17 | Bhagey Gobardhan (1934–1993) MP forMayurbhanj | 21 November 1990 | 20 February 1991 | 91 days | Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) | Chandra Shekhar | Chandra Shekhar | ||
| 18 | _(cropped).JPG) | Mamata Banerjee (born 1955) MP forCalcutta 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 | .jpg) | Mukul Wasnik (born 1959) MP forBuldhana (Youth Affairs and Sports) | 18 January 1993 | 16 May 1996 | 3 years, 119 days | ||||
| 20 |  | Basavarajeshwari (1921–2008) MP forBellary | 19 January 1993 | 15 September 1995 | 2 years, 239 days | ||||
| 21 |  | Selja Kumari (born 1962) MP forSirsa (Education and Culture) | 15 September 1995 | 16 May 1996 | 244 days | ||||
| 22 | Krupasindhu Bhoi (born 1942) MP forSambalpur (Education) | ||||||||
| 23 |  | Vimla Verma (1929–2019) MP forSeoni (Women and Child Development) | |||||||
| 24 | .jpg) | Kanti Singh (born 1957) MP forBikramganj | 1 June 1996 | 29 June 1996 | 28 days | Janata Dal | Deve Gowda | H. D. Deve Gowda | |
| 25 | Muhi Ram Saikia (1923–2007) MP forNowgong (Education) | 29 June 1996 | 21 April 1997 | 296 days | Asom Gana Parishad | ||||
| 26 | R. Dhanuskodi Athithan (born 1953) MP forTiruchendur (Youth Affairs and Sports) | Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar) | |||||||
| (25) | Muhi Ram Saikia (1923–2007) MP forNowgong (Education) | 21 April 1997 | 19 March 1998 | 332 days | Asom Gana Parishad | Gujral | Inder Kumar Gujral | ||
| (26) | R. Dhanuskodi Athithan (born 1953) MP forTiruchendur (Youth Affairs and Sports) | 1 May 1997 | 322 days | Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar) | |||||
| 27 |  | Uma Bharti (born 1959) MP forKhajuraho | 19 March 1998 | 13 October 1999 | 1 year, 208 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Vajpayee II | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | |
| 28 |  | Sumitra Mahajan (born 1943) MP forIndore | 13 October 1999 | 1 July 2002 | 2 years, 261 days | Vajpayee III | |||
| 29 | Jaisingrao Gaikwad Patil (born 1949) MP forBeed | 27 May 2000 | 227 days | ||||||
| 30 | .jpg) | Syed Shahnawaz Hussain (born 1968) MP forKishanganj | 30 September 2000 | 8 February 2001 | 131 days | ||||
| 31 |  | Rita Verma (born 1953) MP forDhanbad | 1 September 2001 | 29 January 2003 | 1 year, 150 days | ||||
| 32 | .jpg) | Jaskaur Meena (born 1947) MP forDausa | 29 January 2003 | 22 May 2004 | 1 year, 114 days | ||||
| 33 | Ashok Kumar Pradhan (born 1953) MP forKhurja | 29 January 2003 | 24 May 2003 | 115 days | |||||
| 34 | .jpg) | Vallabhbhai Kathiria (born 1954) MP forRajkot | 30 January 2003 | 9 January 2004 | 344 days | ||||
| 35 | Sanjay Paswan (born 1962) MP forNawada | 24 May 2003 | 22 May 2004 | 364 days | |||||
| 36 | _in_New_Delhi%2c_2004_(cropped).jpg) | Mohammad Ali Ashraf Fatmi (born 1956) MP forDarbhanga (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 forArrah (Higher Education) | 23 May 2004 | 29 January 2006 | 1 year, 251 days | ||||
| 37 |  | Daggubati Purandeswari (born 1959) MP forBapatla (till 2009) MP forVisakhapatnam (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 forMalappuram (School Education and Literacy) | 12 July 2011 | 1 year, 108 days | Indian Union Muslim League | ||||
| 39 | .jpg) | Jitin Prasada (born 1973) MP forDhaurahra | 28 October 2012 | 26 May 2014 | 1 year, 210 days | Indian National Congress | |||
| 40 |  | Shashi Tharoor (born 1956) MP forThiruvananthapuram | |||||||
| 41 | .jpg) | Upendra Kushwaha (born 1960) MP forKarakat (School Education and Literacy) | 9 November 2014 | 11 December 2018 | 4 years, 32 days | Rashtriya Lok Samta Party | Modi I | Narendra Modi | |
| 42 | .jpg) | Ram Shankar Katheria (born 1964) MP forAgra (Higher Education) | 5 July 2016 | 1 year, 239 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||||
| 43 | .jpg) | Mahendra Nath Pandey (born 1957) MP forChandauli (Higher Education) | 5 July 2017 | 3 September 2017 | 60 days | ||||
| 44 |  | Satya Pal Singh (born 1955) MP forBaghpat (Higher Education) | 3 September 2017 | 30 May 2019 | 1 year, 269 days | ||||
| 45 |  | Sanjay Shamrao Dhotre (born 1959) MP forAkola | 31 May 2019 | 29 July 2020 | 1 year, 59 days | Modi II | |||
| Minister of State for Education | |||||||||
| 45 | | Sanjay Shamrao Dhotre (born 1959) MP forAkola | 29 July 2020 | 7 July 2021 | 343 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Modi II | Narendra Modi | |
| 46 | .jpg) | Annpurna Devi (born 1970) MP forKodarma (School Education and Literacy) | 7 July 2021 | 9 June 2024 | 2 years, 338 days | ||||
| 47 | .jpg) | Subhas Sarkar (born 1953) MP forBankura (Higher Education) | |||||||
| 48 |  | Rajkumar Ranjan Singh (born 1952) MP forInner Manipur (Higher Education) | |||||||
| 49 |  | Sukanta Majumder (born 1979) MP forBalurghat (Higher Education) | 10 June 2024 | Incumbent | 1 year, 171 days | Modi III | |||
| 50 |  | Jayant Chaudhary (born 1978) Rajya Sabha MP forUttar Pradesh (Higher Education) | 10 June 2024 | Incumbent | 1 year, 171 days | Rashtriya Lok Dal | |||
