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{{Use Indian English|date=September 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2015}}
{{More citations needed|date=January 2016}}
{{Infobox government agency
|type = Department
|seal = Emblem_of_India.svg
|seal_width = 70px
|jurisdiction = [[Republic of India]]
|headquarters = [[Krishi Bhavan]], [[New Delhi]]
|budget = {{INRConvert|122398|c}} (2020-21 est.) <ref>{{cite web |url=https://prsindia.org/sites/default/files/budget_files/Union%20Budget%20Analysis%20-%202020-21.pdf |title=Union Budget 2020-21 Analysis |date= 2020|website=prsindia.org |format=PDF}}</ref>
|minister1_name = [[Narendra Singh Tomar]]
|minister1_pfo = Cabinet Minister
|minister2_name = [[Niranjan Jyoti|Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti]]
|minister2_pfo = Minister of State
|website = {{url|http://rural.nic.in}}
|name=Ministry of Rural Development|logo=|formed=|employees=|chief1_name=|chief1_position=|chief2_name=|chief2_position=|chief3_name=|chief3_position=|chief4_name=|chief4_position=|chief5_name=|chief5_position=|chief6_name=|chief6_position=|chief7_name=|chief7_position=|chief8_name=|chief8_position=|chief9_name=|chief9_position=|parent_department=}}
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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://rural.nic.in/netrural/rural/sites/about-the-ministry.aspx |title=Archived copy |access-date=18 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150618172317/http://rural.nic.in/netrural/rural/sites/about-the-ministry.aspx |archive-date=18 June 2015 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite web|title=No more a people ministry for Birender Singh, now the steel minister|url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/no-more-a-people-ministry-for-birender-singh-now-the-steel-minister-116070700006_1.html|publisher=Business Standard|access-date=8 July 2016|date=6 July 2016}}</ref>

==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, [[Indira Awaas Yojana|Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana]] It handles the administration of [[District Rural Development Agencies (India)|District Rural Development Agency]] (DRDA), and has three autonomous organisations under it:<ref>{{cite web | title = Overview | publisher = Department of Rural Development | url = http://drd.nic.in/DRD/aboutus.asp | access-date = 2014-01-14 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140208233730/http://drd.nic.in/drd/aboutus.asp | archive-date = 8 February 2014 | url-status = dead | df = dmy-all }}</ref>

*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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.teriin.org/index.php?option=com_aboutus&id=3158&p=emp&view=profile&Itemid=181|title=TERI: Innovative Solutions for Sustainable Development - India|website=www.teriin.org}}</ref>

===Department of Land Resources===
The Department of Land Resources runs three national-level programs:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dolr.gov.in/programme-schemes/schemes-programmes|title=Schemes|date=5 February 2019|publisher=Department of Land Resources|access-date=2014-01-14}}</ref>

*[[Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana|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 ==
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 700px"
! width="200px" |Name
! colspan="2" width="100px" |Tenure
! colspan=2|Political Party
!Prime Minister
|-
|[[Rao Birendra Singh]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://eparlib.nic.in/bitstream/123456789/759802/1/Council_of_Ministers_English.pdf|title=Council of Ministers}}</ref>
|20 January 1980
|29 January 1983
|rowspan="4"| [[Indian National Congress]]
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Indian National Congress/meta/color}}" rowspan=4|
|rowspan="2"| [[Indira Gandhi]]
|-
|[[Harinath Mishra]] ''(MoS, Independent Charge)''
|29 January 1983
|02 August 1984
|-
|[[Mohsina Kidwai]] ''(MoS, Independent Charge till 31 October 1984)''
|02 August 1984
|31 December 1984
|rowspan="1"| [[Indira Gandhi]] [[Rajiv Gandhi]]
|-
|[[Buta Singh]]
|31 December 1984
|25 September 1985
|rowspan="1"|[[Rajiv Gandhi]]
|-
| [[Upendra Nath Verma]]
| 21 April 1990
| 10 November 1990
| rowspan="1"| [[Janata Dal]] ([[National Front (India)|National Front]])
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Janata Dal/meta/color}}" rowspan=1|
| rowspan="1"| [[V. P. Singh]]
|-
|[[P. V. Narasimha Rao]]
|12 June 1991
|11 June 1995
|rowspan="2"| [[Indian National Congress]]
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Indian National Congress/meta/color}}" rowspan=2|
|rowspan="2"| [[P. V. Narasimha Rao]]
|-
|[[Jagannath Mishra]] ''(Minister of Rural Areas and Employment)''
|11 June 1995
|16 May 1996
|-
|[[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]]
|16 May 1996
|01 June 1996
|rowspan="1"| [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" rowspan=1|
|rowspan="1"| [[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]]
|-
|[[Kinjarapu Yerran Naidu]]
|01 June 1996
|19 March 1998
|rowspan="1"|[[Telugu Desam Party]] ([[United Front (India)|United Front]])
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Telugu Desam Party/meta/color}}" rowspan=1|
|rowspan="1"|[[H. D. Deve Gowda]] [[I. K. Gujral]]
|-
|[[Babagouda Patil]] ''(Minister of Rural Development)'' ''(MoS, Independent Charge)''
|19 March 1998
|13 October 1999
|rowspan="6"| [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] ([[National Democratic Alliance (India)|National Democratic Alliance]])
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" rowspan=6|
|rowspan="6"| [[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
|rowspan=1|[[Rashtriya Janata Dal]] ([[United Progressive Alliance]])
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Rashtriya Janata Dal/meta/color}}" rowspan=1|
| rowspan="4" |[[Manmohan Singh]]
|-
|[[C. P. Joshi]]
|28 May 2009
|19 January 2011
|rowspan=3|[[Indian National Congress]] ([[United Progressive Alliance]])
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Indian National Congress/meta/color}}" rowspan=3|
|-
|[[Vilasrao Deshmukh]]
|19 January 2011
|12 July 2011
|-
|[[Jairam Ramesh]]
|13 July 2011
|26 May 2014
|-
|[[Gopinath Munde]]
|26 May 2014
|03 June 2014
|rowspan=4|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]] ([[National Democratic Alliance (India)|National Democratic Alliance]])
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" rowspan=4|
| rowspan="4" |[[Narendra Modi]]
|-
|[[Nitin Gadkari]]
|03 June 2014
|09 November 2014
|-
|[[Birender Singh (politician, born 1946)|Birender Singh]]
|09 November 2014
|05 July 2016
|-
|[[Narendra Singh Tomar]]
|05 July 2016
|Incumbent
|}

==Ministers of State==
* [[Niranjan Jyoti]] (31 May 2019)

{{Heads of the Ministries of the Government of India}}{{Railway Ministers of India}}

*

==See also==
* [[District Rural Development Agencies (India)]]
* [[NREGS (Kerala)]]
* [[SWAMITVA Yojana]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Official|http://www.rural.nic.in/}}
* [http://nrega.nic.in National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, website]

{{Union ministries of India}}

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[[Category:Government ministries of India|R]]
[[Category:Rural development organisations in India]]
[[Category:Rural development ministries]]

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