| Agency overview | |
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| Formed | September 1985; 40 years ago (1985-09) |
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| Dissolved | May 2019[1] |
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| Jurisdiction | Government of India |
| Headquarters | Ministry of Water Resources, Shram Shakti Bhawan, Rafi Marg,New Delhi |
| Annual budget | US$243,134,089[2] |
| Website | jalshakti-dowr |
TheMinistry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation was the apex body for formulation and administration of rules and regulations relating to the development and regulation of the water resources inIndia. The Ministry was formed in January 1985 following the bifurcation of the then Ministry of Irrigation and Power, when the Department of Irrigation was re-constituted as the Ministry of Water Resources. In July 2014, the Ministry was renamed to “Ministry of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation”, making it theNational Ganga River Basin Authority for conservation, development, management, and abatement of pollution in the riverGanges and its tributaries.[3] In May 2019, this ministry was merged with theMinistry of Drinking Water and Sanitation to form theMinistry of Jal Shakti.
Central Ground Water Board (CGWB), created in 1970 under the Ministry of Water Resources of India, for regulation of ground water development to ensure long-term sustainability. It is responsible for "providing scientific inputs for management, exploration, monitoring, assessment, augmentation and regulation of ground water resources of the country." It is a multi-disciplinary scientific entity comprisingHydrologists,Hydrometeorologists,Hydrogeologists,Geophysicists,Chemists, and Engineers. It is headquartered atNH-19 (old NH-4) inFaridabad inHaryana.[9]
It has following 4 wings:[9]
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 Irrigation and Power | |||||||||
| Gulzarilal Nanda (1898–1998) MP forSabarkantha | 6 June 1952 | 17 April 1957 | 4 years, 315 days | Indian National Congress | Nehru II | Jawaharlal Nehru | |||
| S. K. Patil (1898–1981) MP forMumbai South | 17 April 1957 | 2 April 1958 | 350 days | Nehru III | |||||
| Hafiz Mohamad Ibrahim (1889–1968) MP forUttar Pradesh (Rajya Sabha) | 2 April 1958 | 10 April 1962 | 5 years, 85 days | ||||||
| 10 April 1962 | 26 June 1963 | Nehru IV | |||||||
| O. V. Alagesan (1911–1992) MP forChengalpattu (Minister of State) | 26 June 1963 | 19 July 1963 | 23 days | ||||||
| Kanuri Lakshmana Rao (1902–1986) MP forVijayawada (Minister of State) | 19 July 1963 | 27 May 1964 | 326 days | ||||||
| 27 May 1964 | 9 June 1964 | Nanda I | Gulzarilal Nanda | ||||||
| H. C. Dasappa (1894–1964) MP for Bangalore | 9 June 1964 | 19 July 1964 | 40 days | Shastri | Lal Bahadur Shastri | ||||
| Kanuri Lakshmana Rao (1902–1986) MP forVijayawada (Minister of State) | 19 July 1964 | 11 January 1966 | 1 year, 189 days | ||||||
| 11 January 1966 | 24 January 1966 | Nanda II | Gulzarilal Nanda | ||||||
| Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (1905–1977) MP forBarpeta | 24 January 1966 | 13 November 1966 | 293 days | Indira I | Indira Gandhi | ||||
| Kanuri Lakshmana Rao (1902–1986) MP forVijayawada (Minister of State) | 13 November 1966 | 13 March 1967 | 6 years, 361 days | ||||||
| 13 March 1967 | 18 March 1971 | Indira II | |||||||
| 18 March 1971 | 9 November 1973 | Indian National Congress (R) | Indira II | ||||||
| K. C. Pant (1931–2012) MP forNainital (Minister of State) | 9 November 1973 | 10 October 1974 | 335 days | ||||||
| Merged withMinistry of Agriculture and Irrigation during this interval | |||||||||
| Minister of Irrigation | |||||||||
| A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury (1927–2006) MP forMalda | 16 January 1980 | 8 June 1980 | 144 days | Indian National Congress | Indira IV | Indira Gandhi | |||
| Kedar Pandey (1920–1982) MP forBettiah | 8 June 1980 | 12 November 1980 | 157 days | ||||||
| Rao Birender Singh (1921–2000) MP forMahendragarh | 12 November 1980 | 15 January 1982 | 1 year, 64 days | ||||||
| Kedar Pandey (1920–1982) MP forBettiah | 15 January 1982 | 29 January 1983 | 1 year, 14 days | ||||||
| Ram Niwas Mirdha (1924–2010) MP forRajasthan (Rajya Sabha) (Minister of State, I/C) | 29 January 1983 | 2 August 1984 | 1 year, 186 days | ||||||
| Prakash Chandra Sethi (1919–1996) MP forIndore | 2 August 1984 | 31 October 1984 | 90 days | ||||||
| C. K. Jaffer Sharief (1933–2018) MP forBangalore North (Minister of State, I/C) | 4 November 1984 | 31 December 1984 | 57 days | Rajiv I | Rajiv Gandhi | ||||
| B. Shankaranand (1925–2009) MP forChikkodi | 31 December 1984 | 25 September 1985 | 268 days | Rajiv II | |||||
| Minister of Water Resources | |||||||||
| B. Shankaranand (1925–2009) MP forChikkodi | 25 September 1985 | 22 August 1987 | 1 year, 331 days | Indian National Congress | Rajiv II | Rajiv Gandhi | |||
| Rajiv Gandhi (1944–1991) MP forAmethi (Prime Minister) | 22 August 1987 | 10 November 1987 | 19 days | ||||||
| Ram Niwas Mirdha (1924–2010) MP forRajasthan (Rajya Sabha) (Minister of State, I/C) | 10 November 1987 | 14 February 1988 | 96 days | ||||||
| Dinesh Singh (1925–1995) MP forPratapgarh | 14 February 1988 | 25 June 1988 | 132 days | ||||||
| B. Shankaranand (1925–2009) MP forChikkodi | 25 June 1988 | 4 July 1989 | 1 year, 9 days | ||||||
| M. M. Jacob (1926–2018) MP forKerala (Rajya Sabha) (Minister of State, I/C) | 4 July 1989 | 2 December 1989 | 151 days | ||||||
| Manubhai Kotadia (1936–2003) MP forAmreli (Minister of State, I/C until 5 Nov 1990) | 6 December 1989 | 5 November 1990 | 334 days | Janata Dal | V. P. Singh | V. P. Singh | |||
| 21 November 1990 | 26 April 1991 | 156 days | Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) | Chandra Shekhar | Chandra Shekhar | ||||
| Chandra Shekhar (1927–2007) MP forBallia (Prime Minister) | 26 April 1991 | 21 June 1991 | 56 days | ||||||
| Vidya Charan Shukla (1929–2013) MP forRaipur | 21 June 1991 | 17 January 1996 | 4 years, 210 days | Indian National Congress | Rao | P. V. Narasimha Rao | |||
| P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004) MP forNandyal (Prime Minister) | 17 January 1996 | 7 February 1996 | 21 days | ||||||
| A. R. Antulay (1929–2014) MP forKolaba | 7 February 1996 | 16 May 1996 | 99 days | ||||||
| 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 | |||
| H. D. Deve Gowda (born 1933) Unelected (Prime Minister) | 1 June 1996 | 29 June 1996 | 28 days | Janata Dal | Deve Gowda | H. D. Deve Gowda | |||
| Janeshwar Mishra (1933–2010) MP forUttar Pradesh (Rajya Sabha) | 29 June 1996 | 21 April 1997 | 345 days | Samajwadi Party | |||||
| 21 April 1997 | 9 June 1997 | Gujral | Inder Kumar Gujral | ||||||
| Sis Ram Ola (1927–2013) MP forJhunjhunu (Minister of State, I/C) | 9 June 1997 | 19 March 1998 | 283 days | All India Indira Congress (Tiwari) | |||||
| Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018) MP forLucknow (Prime Minister) | 19 March 1998 | 13 October 1999 | 1 year, 208 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Vajpayee II | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | |||
| Pramod Mahajan (1949–2006) MP forMaharashtra (Rajya Sabha) | 13 October 1999 | 22 November 1999 | 40 days | Vajpayee III | |||||
| C. P. Thakur (born 1931) MP forPatna | 22 November 1999 | 27 May 2000 | 187 days | ||||||
| Arjun Charan Sethi (1941–2020) MP forBhadrak | 27 May 2000 | 22 May 2004 | 3 years, 361 days | Biju Janata Dal | |||||
| Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi (1945–2017) MP forRaiganj | 23 May 2004 | 18 November 2005 | 1 year, 179 days | Indian National Congress | Manmohan I | Manmohan Singh | |||
| Santosh Mohan Dev (1934–2017) MP forSilchar (Minister of State, I/C) | 18 November 2005 | 29 January 2006 | 72 days | ||||||
| Saifuddin Soz (born 1937) MP forJammu and Kashmir (Rajya Sabha) | 29 January 2006 | 22 May 2009 | 3 years, 113 days | ||||||
| Meira Kumar (born 1945) MP forSasaram | 28 May 2009 | 31 May 2009 | 3 days | Manmohan II | |||||
| Manmohan Singh (1932–2024) MP forAssam (Rajya Sabha) (Prime Minister) | 31 May 2009 | 14 June 2009 | 14 days | ||||||
| Pawan Kumar Bansal (born 1948) MP forChandigarh | 14 June 2009 | 19 January 2011 | 1 year, 219 days | ||||||
| Salman Khurshid (born 1953) MP forFarrukhabad | 19 January 2011 | 12 July 2011 | 174 days | ||||||
| Pawan Kumar Bansal (born 1948) MP forChandigarh | 12 July 2011 | 28 October 2012 | 1 year, 108 days | ||||||
| Harish Rawat (born 1948) MP forHaridwar | 28 October 2012 | 1 February 2014 | 1 year, 96 days | ||||||
| Ghulam Nabi Azad (born 1949) MP forJammu and Kashmir (Rajya Sabha) | 1 February 2014 | 26 May 2014 | 114 days | ||||||
| Minister of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation | |||||||||
| Uma Bharti (born 1959) MP forJhansi | 27 May 2014 | 3 September 2017 | 3 years, 99 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Modi I | Narendra Modi | |||
| Nitin Gadkari (born 1957) MP forNagpur | 3 September 2017 | 30 May 2019 | 1 year, 269 days | ||||||
| Merged into theMinistry of Jal Shakti | |||||||||
| Portrait | Minister (Birth-Death) Constituency | Term of office | Political party | Ministry | Prime Minister | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| From | To | Period | ||||||
| Minister of State for Irrigation and Power | ||||||||
| O. V. Alagesan (1911–1992) MP forChengalpattu | 8 May 1962 | 19 July 1963 | 1 year, 72 days | Indian National Congress | Nehru IV | Jawaharlal Nehru | ||
| Kanuri Lakshmana Rao (1902–1986) MP forVijayawada | 9 June 1964 | 19 July 1964 | 40 days | Shastri | Lal Bahadur Shastri | |||
| 24 January 1966 | 13 November 1966 | 293 days | Indira I | Indira Gandhi | ||||
| Minister of State for Agriculture and Irrigation | ||||||||
| Annasaheb Shinde (1922–1993) MP forKopargaon | 10 October 1974 | 24 March 1977 | 2 years, 165 days | Indian National Congress | Indira II | Indira Gandhi | ||
| Shah Nawaz Khan (1914–1993) MP forMeerut | 10 October 1974 | 24 March 1977 | 2 years, 165 days | |||||
| Bhanu Pratap Singh (born 1935) Rajya Sabha MP forUttar Pradesh | 14 August 1977 | 15 July 1979 | 1 year, 335 days | Janata Party | Desai | Morarji Desai | ||
| Nathuram Mirdha (1921–1996) MP forNagaur | 4 August 1979 | 25 October 1979 | 82 days | Janata Party (Secular) | Charan | Charan Singh | ||
| M. V. Krishnappa (1918–1980) MP forChikballapur | 4 August 1979 | 14 January 1980 | 163 days | |||||
| Minister of State for Irrigation | ||||||||
| Ziaur Rahman Ansari (1925–1992) MP forUnnao | 19 January 1980 | 29 January 1983 | 3 years, 10 days | Indian National Congress | Indira III | Indira Gandhi | ||
| Harinath Mishra MP forDarbhanga | 2 August 1984 | 31 October 1984 | 90 days | |||||
| Minister of State for Water Resources | ||||||||
| Krishna Sahi (born 1931) MP forBegusarai | 14 February 1988 | 4 July 1989 | 1 year, 140 days | Indian National Congress | Rajiv II | Rajiv Gandhi | ||
| Prem Khandu Thungan (born 1946) MP forArunachal West | 19 January 1993 | 10 February 1995 | 2 years, 22 days | Rao | P. V. Narasimha Rao | |||
| P. V. Rangayya Naidu (born 1933) MP forKhammam | 10 February 1995 | 16 May 1996 | 1 year, 96 days | |||||
| Sompal Shastri (born 1942) MP forBaghpat | 3 February 1999 | 13 October 1999 | 252 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Vajpayee II | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | ||
| Bijoya Chakravarty (born 1939) MP forGauhati | 13 October 1999 | 22 May 2004 | 4 years, 222 days | Vajpayee III | ||||
| Jay Prakash Narayan Yadav (born 1954) MP forMunger | 23 May 2004 | 6 November 2005 | 1 year, 167 days | Rashtriya Janata Dal | Manmohan I | Manmohan Singh | ||
| 24 October 2006 | 22 May 2009 | 2 years, 210 days | ||||||
| Vincent Pala (born 1968) MP forShillong | 28 May 2009 | 28 October 2012 | 3 years, 153 days | Indian National Congress | Manmohan II | |||
| Minister of State for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation | ||||||||
| Santosh Kumar Gangwar (born 1948) MP forBareilly | 27 May 2014 | 9 November 2014 | 166 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Modi I | Narendra Modi | ||
| Sanwar Lal Jat (1955–2017) MP forAjmer | 9 November 2014 | 5 July 2016 | 1 year, 239 days | |||||
| Vijay Goel (born 1954) Rajya Sabha MP forRajasthan | 5 July 2016 | 3 September 2017 | 1 year, 60 days | |||||
| Sanjeev Balyan (born 1972) MP forMuzaffarnagar | 5 July 2016 | 3 September 2017 | 1 year, 60 days | |||||
| Arjun Ram Meghwal (born 1953) MP forBikaner | 3 September 2017 | 30 May 2019 | 1 year, 269 days | |||||
| Satya Pal Singh (born 1955) MP forBaghpat | 3 September 2017 | 30 May 2019 | 1 year, 269 days | |||||
| Ministry merged withMinistry of Drinking Water and Sanitation to formMinistry of Jal Shakti | ||||||||
| Portrait | Minister (Birth-Death) Constituency | Term of office | Political party | Ministry | Prime Minister | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| From | To | Period | ||||||
| Deputy Minister of Irrigation and Power | ||||||||
| Jaisukhlal Hathi (1909–1982) MP forGujarat (Rajya Sabha), until 1957 MP for Halar, from 1957 | 12 September 1952 | 17 April 1957 | 9 years, 210 days | Indian National Congress | Nehru II | Jawaharlal Nehru | ||
| 17 April 1957 | 10 April 1962 | Nehru III | ||||||
| Shyam Dhar Mishra (1919–2001) MP forMirzapur | 15 June 1964 | 11 January 1966 | 1 year, 223 days | Shastri | Lal Bahadur Shastri | |||
| 11 January 1966 | 24 January 1966 | Nanda II | Gulzarilal Nanda (acting) | |||||
| Siddheshwar Prasad (1929–2023) MP forNalanda | 13 November 1967 | 18 March 1971 | 3 years, 170 days | Indira I | Indira Gandhi | |||
| 18 March 1971 | 2 May 1971 | Indira II | ||||||
| Baijnath Kureel (1920–1984) MP forRamsanehighat | 2 May 1971 | 4 February 1973 | 1 year, 278 days | |||||
| Balgovind Verma (1923–1980) MP forKheri | 5 February 1973 | 9 November 1973 | 277 days | |||||
| Siddheshwar Prasad (1929–2023) MP forNalanda | 9 November 1973 | 10 October 1974 | 335 days | |||||
| Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation | ||||||||
| Kedar Nath Singh MP forSultanpur | 10 October 1974 | 24 March 1977 | 2 years, 165 days | Indian National Congress | Indira II | Indira Gandhi | ||
| Prabhudas Patel (1914–?) MP forDabhoi | 23 October 1974 | 14 March 1977 | 2 years, 142 days | |||||