Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs

Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
	Emblem of India
Ministry overview
Formed	1952; 72 years ago
Jurisdiction	Republic of India
Headquarters	Nirman Bhawan, New Delhi
Annual budget	₹50,040 crore (US$7.0 billion) (2020 - 21)
Ministers responsible	Hardeep Singh Puri, Cabinet Minister; Kaushal Kishore, Minister of State;
Ministry executive	Durga Shanker Mishra, IAS, Secretary (Housing and Urban Affairs);
Website	mohua.gov.in

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Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), Government of India, is a federal ministry with executive authority over the formulation and administration of the rules and regulations and laws relating to the housing and urban development in India. The ministry was under the charge of Venkaiah Naidu and was given to Hardeep Singh Puri when Naidu was elected Vice President of India.^[2] The Ministry became independent from the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation in 2004,^[3] but was later re-merged with it in 2017.^[4]

The ministry also published the National City Rating, which ranked the cleanest cities in India, under which Indore was rated as the cleanest.^[5]

The ministry announced Smart Cities in India on 27 August 2015.

In July 2019, the ministry released specifications for Metrolite transport system - a cheaper, smaller and slower metro system.^[6]

Organisation[edit]

Attached Offices[edit]

Subordinate Offices[edit]

Town & Country Planning Organisation
Stationery Office
Department of Publication

Statutory Bodies[edit]

Central Public Sector Units[edit]

Schemes[edit]

Joint ventures[edit]

List of Ministers[edit]

	Portrait	Name	Term of office			Prime Minister	Party
1		N. V. Gadgil	15 August 1947	13 May 1952	4 years, 272 days	Jawaharlal Nehru	Indian National Congress
2		Swaran Singh	13 May 1952	17 April 1957	4 years, 339 days
3		K. C. Reddy	17 April 1957	5 April 1961	3 years, 353 days
4		Bezawada Gopala Reddy	5 April 1961	10 April 1962	1 year, 5 days
5		Mehr Chand Khanna	10 April 1962	24 January 1966	4 years, 337 days
			10 April 1962	24 January 1966		Lal Bahadur Shastri
			24 January 1966	13 March 1967		Indira Gandhi
6		Satya Narayan Sinha	14 November 1967	14 February 1969	1 year, 92 days
7		Kodardas Kalidas Shah	14 February 1969	18 March 1971	2 years, 32 days
8		Uma Shankar Dikshit	2 May 1971	5 February 1973	1 year, 279 days
9		Bhola Paswan Shastri	5 February 1973	10 October 1974	1 year, 247 days
10		Kotha Raghuramaiah	10 October 1974	23 December 1976	2 years, 74 days
11		Hitendra Desai	23 December 1976	24 March 1977	91 days
12	File:SIKANDER BAKHT, SHRI.gif	Sikander Bhakt	26 March 1977	28 July 1979	2 years, 124 days	Morarji Desai	Janata Party
13		Ram Kinkar	28 July 1979	14 January 1980	170 days	Charan Singh	Janata Party (Secular)
14		Prakash Chandra Sethi	14 January 1980	19 October 1980	279 days	Indira Gandhi	Indian National Congress
15		Bhishma Narain Singh	19 October 1980	29 January 1983	2 years, 102 days	Indira Gandhi
16		Buta Singh	29 January 1983	31 December 1984	1 year, 337 days	Indira Gandhi Rajiv Gandhi
17		Abdul Gafoor	31 December 1984	22 October 1986	1 year, 295 days	Rajiv Gandhi
18		Mohsina Kidwai	22 October 1986	2 December 1989	3 years, 41 days	Rajiv Gandhi
19		Murasoli Maran	6 December 1989	10 November 1990	339 days	V. P. Singh	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (National Front)
20		Daulat Ram Saran	21 November 1990	21 June 1991	212 days	Chandra Shekhar	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)
21		Sheila Kaul	21 June 1991	10 September 1995	4 years, 81 days	P. V. Narasimha Rao	Indian National Congress
22		P. V. Narasimha Rao	10 September 1995	15 September 1995	5 days
23		R. K. Dhawan (Independent Charge)	15 September 1995	21 February 1996	159 days
(22)		P. V. Narasimha Rao	21 February 1996	16 May 1996	85 days (total 90 days)
(12)	File:SIKANDER BAKHT, SHRI.gif	Sikander Bakht	16 May 1996	1 June 1996	16 days (total 2 years, 140 days)	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	Bharatiya Janata Party
24		M. Arunachalam	1 June 1996	29 June 1996	28 days	H. D. Deve Gowda	Tamil Maanila Congress
25		H. D. Deve Gowda	29 June 1996	21 April 1997	296 days	H. D. Deve Gowda	Janata Dal
26		I. K. Gujral	21 April 1997	9 June 1997	49 days	I. K. Gujral	Janata Dal
27		Ummareddy Venkateswarlu (Independent Charge)	9 June 1997	19 March 1998	283 days	I. K. Gujral	Telugu Desam Party
28		Ram Jethmalani	19 March 1998	8 June 1999	1 year, 81 days	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	Independent
29		Jagmohan	8 June 1999	1 September 2001	2 years, 85 days		Bharatiya Janata Party
30		Ananth Kumar	1 September 2001	12 July 2003	1 year, 314 days
31		B. C. Khanduri	12 July 2003	8 September 2003	58 days
32		Bandaru Dattatreya (Independent Charge)	8 September 2003	22 May 2004	257 days
33		Ghulam Nabi Azad	23 May 2004	1 November 2005	1 year, 162 days	Manmohan Singh	Indian National Congress
34		Manmohan Singh	1 November 2005	18 November 2005	17 days
35		S. Jaipal Reddy	18 November 2005	19 January 2011	5 years, 62 days
36		Kamal Nath	19 January 2011	26 May 2014	3 years, 127 days
37		M. Venkaiah Naidu	26 May 2014	18 July 2017	3 years, 53 days	Narendra Modi	Bharatiya Janata Party
38		Narendra Singh Tomar	18 July 2017	3 September 2017	47 days
39		Hardeep Singh Puri (Independent Charge till 7 July 2021)	3 September 2017	Incumbent	6 years, 236 days

List of Ministers of State[edit]

Ministers of State in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
Minister of state	Political party	Term		Days
Babul Supriyo	Bharatiya Janata Party	9 November 2014	12 July 2016	1 year, 246 days
Rao Inderjit Singh		5 July 2016	3 September 2017	1 year, 60 days
Kaushal Kishore		7 July 2021	Incumbent	2 years, 294 days

References[edit]

↑ "Demand for Grants 2020-21 Analysis : Housing and Urban Affairs".
↑ National Portal of India : Government : Who's Who
↑ The Ministry Archived 2010-09-14 at the Wayback Machine Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation.
↑ K Dash, Dipak (8 July 2017). "MoHUA is the new name for urban development & housing ministry". The Times of India. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
↑ "Swachh Survekshan 2017 Report (ref page 7)" (PDF).
↑ MoHUA (20 July 2019). "Standard Specifications of Light Urban Rail Transit System "METROLITE"" (PDF). mohua.gov.in. Retrieved 27 March 2019.

External links[edit]

Ministry website

[1] "Demand for Grants 2020-21 Analysis : Housing and Urban Affairs".

[2] National Portal of India : Government : Who's Who

[3] The Ministry Archived 2010-09-14 at the Wayback Machine Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation.

[4] K Dash, Dipak (8 July 2017). "MoHUA is the new name for urban development & housing ministry". The Times of India. Retrieved 14 September 2017.

[5] "Swachh Survekshan 2017 Report (ref page 7)" (PDF).

[6] MoHUA (20 July 2019). "Standard Specifications of Light Urban Rail Transit System "METROLITE"" (PDF). mohua.gov.in. Retrieved 27 March 2019.

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