Ministry of Rural Development (India)

Ministry of Rural Development
Department overview
Jurisdiction	Republic of India
Headquarters	Krishi Bhavan, New Delhi
Annual budget	₹122,398 crore (US$17 billion) (2020-21 est.)
Ministers responsible	Narendra Singh Tomar, Cabinet Minister; Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, Minister of State;
Website	rural.nic.in

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The Ministry of Rural Development, a branch of the Government of India, is entrusted with the task of accelerating the socio-economic development of rural India. Its focus is on health, education, drinking water, housing and roads.^[2]

On 5 July 2016, during the second cabinet reshuffle of the Narendra Modi ministry, Narendra Singh Tomar replaced Chaudhary Birender Singh as the Minister of Rural Development.^[3]

Departments

The ministry has two departments: Department of Rural Development and Department of Land Resources. Each is headed by a senior civil servant designated as the Secretary of the Department. Anita Choudhry is the secretary of Land Resources and Jugal Kishore Mahapatra, a senior bureaucrat from Odisha, is the secretary of the Ministry of Rural Development.

Department of Rural Development

The department run three national-level schemes: Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) for rural roads development, Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY) rural employment and for rural housing, Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana It handles the administration of District Rural Development Agency (DRDA), and has three autonomous organisations under it:^[4]

Council of Advancement of People's Action and Rural Technology (CAPART)
National Institute of Rural Development (NIRD)
National Rural Road Development Agency (NRRDA)

The Minister of Rural Development is the Chairman of these three organisations and the Secretary of the Ministry is the Vice Chairman. The Minister is currently Mr Narendra Singh Tomar, and the Secretary is Subrahmanyam Vijay Kumar.^[5]

Department of Land Resources

The Department of Land Resources runs three national-level programs:^[6]

Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojna (Watershed Development Component)
Digital India Land Record Modernization Programme
Neeranchal National Watershed Project
Other Programmes
- GIZ led pilot Land Use Planning and Management Project
- Ease of Doing Business - Initiatives

Ministers: Rural Development

Name	Tenure		Political Party	Prime Minister
Rao Birendra Singh^[7]	20 January 1980	29 January 1983	Indian National Congress	Indira Gandhi
Harinath Mishra (MoS, Independent Charge)	29 January 1983	02 August 1984		Indira Gandhi
Mohsina Kidwai (MoS, Independent Charge till 31 October 1984)	02 August 1984	31 December 1984		Indira Gandhi Rajiv Gandhi
Buta Singh	31 December 1984	25 September 1985		Rajiv Gandhi
Upendra Nath Verma	21 April 1990	10 November 1990	Janata Dal (National Front)	V. P. Singh
P. V. Narasimha Rao	12 June 1991	11 June 1995	Indian National Congress	P. V. Narasimha Rao
Jagannath Mishra (Minister of Rural Areas and Employment)	11 June 1995	16 May 1996	Indian National Congress	P. V. Narasimha Rao
Atal Bihari Vajpayee	16 May 1996	01 June 1996	Bharatiya Janata Party	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Kinjarapu Yerran Naidu	01 June 1996	19 March 1998	Telugu Desam Party (United Front)	H. D. Deve Gowda I. K. Gujral
Babagouda Patil (Minister of Rural Development) (MoS, Independent Charge)	19 March 1998	13 October 1999	Bharatiya Janata Party (National Democratic Alliance)	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Sundar Lal Patwa	13 October 1999	30 September 2000
M. Venkaiah Naidu	30 September 2000	01 July 2002
Shanta Kumar	01 July 2002	06 April 2003
Ananth Kumar	06 April 2003	24 May 2003
Kashiram Rana	24 May 2003	22 May 2004
Raghuvansh Prasad Singh	23 May 2004	22 May 2009	Rashtriya Janata Dal (United Progressive Alliance)	Manmohan Singh
C. P. Joshi	28 May 2009	19 January 2011	Indian National Congress (United Progressive Alliance)
Vilasrao Deshmukh	19 January 2011	12 July 2011
Jairam Ramesh	13 July 2011	26 May 2014
Gopinath Munde	26 May 2014	03 June 2014	Bharatiya Janata Party (National Democratic Alliance)	Narendra Modi
Nitin Gadkari	03 June 2014	09 November 2014
Birender Singh	09 November 2014	05 July 2016
Narendra Singh Tomar	05 July 2016	Incumbent

Ministers of State

Niranjan Jyoti (31 May 2019)

References

↑ "Union Budget 2020-21 Analysis" (PDF). prsindia.org. 2020.
↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 18 June 2015. Retrieved 18 June 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
↑ "No more a people ministry for Birender Singh, now the steel minister". Business Standard. 6 July 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
↑ "Overview". Department of Rural Development. Archived from the original on 8 February 2014. Retrieved 14 January 2014.
↑ "TERI: Innovative Solutions for Sustainable Development - India". www.teriin.org.
↑ "Schemes". Department of Land Resources. 5 February 2019. Retrieved 14 January 2014.
↑ "Council of Ministers" (PDF).

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[1] "Union Budget 2020-21 Analysis" (PDF). prsindia.org. 2020.

[2] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 18 June 2015. Retrieved 18 June 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[3] "No more a people ministry for Birender Singh, now the steel minister". Business Standard. 6 July 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2016.

[4] "Overview". Department of Rural Development. Archived from the original on 8 February 2014. Retrieved 14 January 2014.

[5] "TERI: Innovative Solutions for Sustainable Development - India". www.teriin.org.

[6] "Schemes". Department of Land Resources. 5 February 2019. Retrieved 14 January 2014.

[7] "Council of Ministers" (PDF).

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