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|headquarters    = [[Krishi Bhavan]], [[New Delhi]]
|headquarters    = [[Krishi Bhavan]], [[New Delhi]]
|budget          = {{INRConvert|122398|c}} <small>(2020-21 est.)</small> <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>
|budget          = {{INRConvert|122398|c}} <small>(2020-21 est.)</small> <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_name  = [[Giriraj Singh]]
|minister1_pfo  = Cabinet Minister
|minister1_pfo  = Cabinet Minister
|minister2_name  = [[Niranjan Jyoti|Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti]]
|minister2_name  = [[Niranjan Jyoti|Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti]]
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|website        = {{url|http://rural.nic.in}}
|website        = {{url|http://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.<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>
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, piped drinking water, public 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>
On 7 July 2021, during the first cabinet reshuffle of the [[Second Modi ministry]], [[Giriraj Singh]] replaced [[Narendra Singh Tomar]] as the Minister of Rural Development.


==Departments==
==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.
The ministry has two departments: the Department of Rural Development and the 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===
===Department of Rural Development===
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* [[National Institute of Rural Development]] (NIRD)
* [[National Institute of Rural Development]] (NIRD)
* National Rural Road Development Agency (NRRDA)
* 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>
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 Giriraj Singh, 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===
===Department of Land Resources===
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** Ease of Doing Business - Initiatives
** Ease of Doing Business - Initiatives


== Ministers: Rural Development ==
==Ministers ==
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 700px"
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 700px"
!No
!Portrait
! width="200px" |Name
! width="200px" |Name
! colspan="2" width="100px" |Tenure
! colspan="3" width="100px" |Tenure
!Prime Minister
! colspan=2|Political Party
! colspan=2|Political Party
!Prime Minister
|- align="center"
|-
|1
|[[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>
|
|[[Rao Birendra Singh]]
|20 January 1980
|20 January 1980
|29 January 1983
|29 January 1983
|rowspan="4"| [[Indian National Congress]]
|{{Ayd|20 january 1980|29 january 1983}}
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Indian National Congress/meta/color}}" rowspan=4|
| rowspan="2" |[[Indira Gandhi]]
|rowspan="2"| [[Indira Gandhi]]
| rowspan="6" | [[Indian National Congress]]
|-
| rowspan="6" width="4px" bgcolor="{{Indian National Congress/meta/color}}" |
|[[Harinath Mishra]] <br> ''(MoS, Independent Charge)''
|- align="center"
|2
|
|[[Harinath Mishra]] <br><small>(Independent Charge)</small>
|29 January 1983
|29 January 1983
|02 August 1984
|2 August 1984
|-
|{{Ayd|29 january 1983|2 august 1984}}
|[[Mohsina Kidwai]] <br> ''(MoS, Independent Charge till 31 October 1984)''
|- align="center"
|02 August 1984
|3
|
|[[Mohsina Kidwai]] <br><small>(Independent Charge till 31 October 1984)</small>
|2 August 1984
|31 December 1984
|31 December 1984
|rowspan="1"| [[Indira Gandhi]] <br> [[Rajiv Gandhi]]
|{{Ayd|2 august 1984|31 december 1984}}
|-
| rowspan="1" |[[Indira Gandhi]] <br> [[Rajiv Gandhi]]
|- align="center"
|4
|[[File:Buta Singh at DJ Sheizwoods house (11) (cropped).jpg|90x90px]]
|[[Buta Singh]]
|[[Buta Singh]]
|31 December 1984
|31 December 1984
|25 September 1985
|25 September 1985
|rowspan="1"|[[Rajiv Gandhi]]
|{{Ayd|31 december 1984|25 september 1985}}
|-
| rowspan="3" |[[Rajiv Gandhi]]
|- align="center"
|5
|
|[[Ramanand Yadav]]
<small>(MoS in Agriculture {{En dash}} Dept of Rural Development)</small>
|12 May 1986
|14 February 1988
|{{Ayd|12 may 1986|14 february 1988}}
|- align="center"
|6
|
|[[Janardhana Poojary]]
<small>(MoS in Agriculture {{En dash}} Dept of Rural Development)</small>
|14 February 1988
|2 December 1989
|{{Ayd|14 february 1988|2 december 1989}}
|- align="center"
|7
|
| [[Upendra Nath Verma]]
| [[Upendra Nath Verma]]
| 21 April 1990
<small>(MoS in Agriculture {{En dash}} Dept of Rural Development)</small>
| 23 April 1990
| 10 November 1990
| 10 November 1990
| rowspan="1"| [[Janata Dal]]<br /><small>([[National Front (India)|National Front]])</small>
|{{Ayd|23 april 1990|10 november 1990}}
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Janata Dal/meta/color}}" rowspan=1|
| rowspan="1" |[[V. P. Singh]]
| rowspan="1"| [[V. P. Singh]]
| rowspan="1" | [[Janata Dal]]
|-
| rowspan="1" width="4px" bgcolor="{{Janata Dal/meta/color}}" |
|- align="center"
|8
|
|[[Ram Bahadur Singh]]
<small>(MoS in Agriculture {{En dash}} Dept of Rural Development)</small>
|21 November 1990
|21 June 1991
|{{Ayd|21 november 1990|21 june 1991}}
|[[Chandra Shekhar]]
|[[Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)]]
|bgcolor="{{Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)/meta/color}}" |
|- align="center"
|9
|[[File:Visit of Narasimha Rao, Indian Minister for Foreign Affairs, to the CEC (cropped)(2).jpg|88x88px]]
|[[P. V. Narasimha Rao]]
|[[P. V. Narasimha Rao]]
|12 June 1991
|21 June 1991
|11 June 1995
|11 June 1995
|rowspan="2"| [[Indian National Congress]]
|{{Ayd|21 june 1991|11 june 1995}}
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Indian National Congress/meta/color}}" rowspan=2|
| rowspan="2" |[[P. V. Narasimha Rao]]
|rowspan="2"| [[P. V. Narasimha Rao]]
| rowspan="2" | [[Indian National Congress]]
|-
| rowspan="2" width="4px" bgcolor="{{Indian National Congress/meta/color}}" |
|[[Jagannath Mishra]] <br> ''(Minister of Rural Areas and Employment)''
|- align="center"
|10
|
|[[Jagannath Mishra]]  
|11 June 1995
|11 June 1995
|16 May 1996
|16 May 1996
|-
|{{Ayd|11 june 1995|16 may 1996}}
|- align="center"
|11
|[[File:Atal Bihari Vajpayee (cropped).jpg|109x109px]]
|[[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]]
|[[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]]
|16 May 1996
|16 May 1996
|01 June 1996
|1 June 1996
|rowspan="1"| [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|{{Ayd|16 may 1996|1 june 1996}}
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" rowspan=1|
| rowspan="1" |[[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]]
|rowspan="1"| [[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]]
| rowspan="1" | [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|-
| rowspan="1" width="4px" bgcolor="{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" |
|[[Kinjarapu Yerran Naidu]]
|- align="center"
|01 June 1996
|12
|19 March 1998
|[[File:Yerram Naidu Kinjarapu.jpg|97x97px]]
|rowspan="1"|[[Telugu Desam Party]]<br /><small>([[United Front (India)|United Front]])</small>
|[[Kinjarapu Yerran Naidu]]
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Telugu Desam Party/meta/color}}" rowspan=1|
|1 June 1996
|rowspan="1"|[[H. D. Deve Gowda]]<br />[[I. K. Gujral]]
|-
|[[Babagouda Patil]] <br> ''(Minister of Rural Development)''<br>''(MoS, Independent Charge)''
|19 March 1998
|19 March 1998
|{{Ayd|1 june 1996|19 march 1998}}
| rowspan="1" |[[H. D. Deve Gowda]]<br />[[I. K. Gujral]]
| rowspan="1" |[[Telugu Desam Party]]
| rowspan="1" width="4px" bgcolor="{{Telugu Desam Party/meta/color}}" |
|- align="center"
|13
|
|[[Babagouda Patil]] <br><small>(Independent Charge)</small>
|20 March 1998
|13 October 1999
|13 October 1999
|rowspan="6"| [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]<br /><small>([[National Democratic Alliance (India)|National Democratic Alliance]])</small>
|{{Ayd|20 march 1998|13 october 1999}}
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" rowspan=6|
| rowspan="6" |[[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]]
|rowspan="6"| [[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]]
| rowspan="6" | [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|-
| rowspan="6" width="4px" bgcolor="{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" |
|- align="center"
|14
|
|[[Sundar Lal Patwa]]
|[[Sundar Lal Patwa]]
|13 October 1999
|13 October 1999
|30 September 2000
|30 September 2000
|-
|{{Ayd|13 october 1999|30 september 2000}}
|- align="center"
|15
|[[File:Venkaiah Naidu official portrait.jpg|76x76px]]
|[[M. Venkaiah Naidu]]
|[[M. Venkaiah Naidu]]
|30 September 2000
|30 September 2000
|01 July 2002
|1 July 2002
|-
|{{Ayd|30 september 2000|1 july 2002}}
|- align="center"
|16
|[[File:Shanta Kumar.jpg|94x94px]]
|[[Shanta Kumar]]
|[[Shanta Kumar]]
|01 July 2002
|1 July 2002
|06 April 2003
|6 April 2003
|-
|{{Ayd|1 july 2002|6 april 2003}}
|- align="center"
|17
|[[File:The Leader of Opposition, BThe Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers, Shri Ananthkumar, in New Delhi on January 08, 2015 (cropped).jpg|89x89px]]
|[[Ananth Kumar]]
|[[Ananth Kumar]]
|06 April 2003
|6 April 2003
|24 May 2003
|24 May 2003
|-
|{{Ayd|6 april 2003|24 may 2003}}
|- align="center"
|18
|
|[[Kashiram Rana]]
|[[Kashiram Rana]]
|24 May 2003
|24 May 2003
|22 May 2004
|22 May 2004
|-
|{{Ayd|24 may 2003|22 may 2004}}
|- align="center"
|19
|[[File:Raghuvansh Prasad Singh (1).jpg|107x107px]]
|[[Raghuvansh Prasad Singh]]
|[[Raghuvansh Prasad Singh]]
|23 May 2004
|23 May 2004
|22 May 2009
|22 May 2009
|rowspan=1|[[Rashtriya Janata Dal]]<br><small>([[United Progressive Alliance]])</small>
|{{Ayd|23 may 2004|22 may 2009}}
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Rashtriya Janata Dal/meta/color}}" rowspan=1|
| rowspan="4" |[[Manmohan Singh]]
| rowspan="4" |[[Manmohan Singh]]
|-
| rowspan="1" |[[Rashtriya Janata Dal]]
|[[C. P. Joshi]]  
| rowspan="1" width="4px" bgcolor="{{Rashtriya Janata Dal/meta/color}}" |
|- align="center"
|20
|[[File:C P Joshi UNDP 2010.jpg|103x103px]]
|[[C. P. Joshi]]
|28 May 2009
|28 May 2009
|19 January 2011
|19 January 2011
|rowspan=3|[[Indian National Congress]]<br><small>([[United Progressive Alliance]])</small>
|{{Ayd|28 may 2009|19 january 2011}}
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Indian National Congress/meta/color}}" rowspan=3|
| rowspan="3" |[[Indian National Congress]]
|-
| rowspan="3" width="4px" bgcolor="{{Indian National Congress/meta/color}}" |
|- align="center"
|21
|[[File:Vilasrao Deshmukh at Innovation Partnerships Event May 8, 2012.jpg|94x94px]]
|[[Vilasrao Deshmukh]]
|[[Vilasrao Deshmukh]]
|19 January 2011
|19 January 2011
|12 July 2011
|12 July 2011
|-
|{{Ayd|19 january 2011|12 july 2011}}
|[[Jairam Ramesh]]  
|- align="center"
|22
|[[File:Jairam ramesh.jpg|93x93px]]
|[[Jairam Ramesh]]
|13 July 2011
|13 July 2011
|26 May 2014
|26 May 2014
|-
|{{Ayd|13 july 2011|26 may 2014}}
|- align="center"
|23
|[[File:Gopinath Munde.jpg|90x90px]]
|[[Gopinath Munde]]
|[[Gopinath Munde]]
|26 May 2014  
|26 May 2014  
|03 June 2014
|3 June 2014
|rowspan=4|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]<br><small>([[National Democratic Alliance (India)|National Democratic Alliance]])</small>
|{{Ayd|26 may 2014|3 june 2014}}
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" rowspan=4|
| rowspan="5" |[[Narendra Modi]]
| rowspan="4" |[[Narendra Modi]]
| rowspan="5" |[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|-
| rowspan="5" width="4px" bgcolor="{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" |
|[[Nitin Gadkari]]  
|- align="center"
|03 June 2014
|24
|09 November 2014
|[[File:Nitin J Gadkari.JPG|91x91px]]
|-
|[[Nitin Gadkari]]
|3 June 2014
|9 November 2014
|{{Ayd|3 june 2014|9 november 2014}}
|- align="center"
|25
|[[File:The Union Minister for Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation (7).jpg|81x81px]]
|[[Birender Singh (politician, born 1946)|Birender Singh]]
|[[Birender Singh (politician, born 1946)|Birender Singh]]
|09 November 2014
|9 November 2014
|05 July 2016
|5 July 2016
|-
|{{Ayd|9 november 2014|5 july 2016}}
|- align="center"
|26
|[[File:Shri Narendra Singh Tomar, Union Minister for Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water & Sanitation and Urban Development (cropped).jpg|77x77px]]
|[[Narendra Singh Tomar]]  
|[[Narendra Singh Tomar]]  
|05 July 2016
|5 July 2016
|Incumbent
|7 July 2021
|{{Ayd|5 july 2016|7 july 2021}}
|- align="center"
|27
|[[File:The Minister of State for Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (IC), Shri Giriraj Singh addressing at the launch of the New Dress Code for Postman and Multi-Tasking Personnel of Department of Posts, in New Delhi.jpg|75x75px]]
|[[Giriraj Singh]]
|7 July 2021
|''Incumbent''
|{{Ayd|7 july 2021|}}
|}
|}


==Ministers of State==
==Ministers of State==
* [[Niranjan Jyoti]] (31 May 2019)
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 700px"
 
!Portrait
 
! width="200px" |Name
{{Heads of the Ministries of the Government of India}}{{Railway Ministers of India}}
! colspan="3" width="100px" |Tenure
 
!Prime Minister
*
! colspan="2" |Political Party
 
|- align="center"
|[[File:Upendra kushwaha.jpg|94x94px]]
|[[Upendra Kushwaha]]
|26 May 2014
|9 November 2014
|{{Ayd|26 may 2014|9 november 2014}}
| rowspan="5" |[[Narendra Modi]]
| rowspan="1" | [[Rashtriya Lok Samta Party]]
| rowspan="1" width="4px" bgcolor="{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" |
|- align="center"
|[[File:Sudarshan Bhagat oath as Minister.jpg|100x100px]]
|[[Sudarshan Bhagat]]
|9 November 2014
|5 July 2016
|{{Ayd|9 november 2014|5 july 2016}}
| rowspan="4" | [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
| rowspan="4" width="4px" bgcolor="{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" |
|- align="center"
|[[File:The Minister of State for Rural Development, Shri Ram Kripal Yadav addressing the media after taking charge in his office, in New Delhi on July 08, 2016.jpg|75x75px]]
|[[Ram Kripal Yadav]]
|5 July 2016
|30 May 2019
|{{Ayd|5 july 2016|30 may 2019}}
|- align="center"
|[[File:The Minister of State for Food Processing Industries, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti addressing at the concluding ceremony of the World Food India-2017, organised by the Ministry of Food Processing Industries, in New Delhi.jpg|75x75px]]
|[[Niranjan Jyoti]]
|30 May 2019
| rowspan="2" |''Incumbent''
|{{Ayd|30 may 2019|}}
|- align="center"
|[[File:Shri Faggan Singh Kulaste taking charge as the Minister of State for Steel, in New Delhi on May 31, 2019 (cropped).jpg|75x75px]]
|[[Faggan Singh Kulaste]]
|7 July 2021
|{{Ayd|7 july 2021|}}
|}
==See also==
==See also==
* [[District Rural Development Agencies (India)]]
* [[District Rural Development Agencies (India)]]

Latest revision as of 23:29, 25 July 2023

Ministry of Rural Development
Department overview
JurisdictionRepublic of India
HeadquartersKrishi Bhavan, New Delhi
Annual budget₹122,398 crore (US$17 billion) (2020-21 est.) [1]
Ministers responsible
Websiterural.nic.in

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, piped drinking water, public housing and roads.[2]

On 7 July 2021, during the first cabinet reshuffle of the Second Modi ministry, Giriraj Singh replaced Narendra Singh Tomar as the Minister of Rural Development.

Departments[edit | edit source]

The ministry has two departments: the Department of Rural Development and the 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[edit | edit source]

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:[3]

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 Giriraj Singh, and the Secretary is Subrahmanyam Vijay Kumar.[4]

Department of Land Resources[edit | edit source]

The Department of Land Resources runs three national-level programs:[5]

Ministers[edit | edit source]

No Portrait Name Tenure Prime Minister Political Party
1 Rao Birendra Singh 20 January 1980 29 January 1983 3 years, 9 days Indira Gandhi Indian National Congress
2 Harinath Mishra
(Independent Charge) 		29 January 1983 2 August 1984 1 year, 186 days
3 Mohsina Kidwai
(Independent Charge till 31 October 1984) 		2 August 1984 31 December 1984 151 days Indira Gandhi
Rajiv Gandhi
4 Buta Singh 31 December 1984 25 September 1985 268 days Rajiv Gandhi
5 Ramanand Yadav

(MoS in Agriculture – Dept of Rural Development)

12 May 1986 14 February 1988 1 year, 278 days
6 Janardhana Poojary

(MoS in Agriculture – Dept of Rural Development)

14 February 1988 2 December 1989 1 year, 291 days
7 Upendra Nath Verma

(MoS in Agriculture – Dept of Rural Development)

23 April 1990 10 November 1990 201 days V. P. Singh Janata Dal
8 Ram Bahadur Singh

(MoS in Agriculture – Dept of Rural Development)

21 November 1990 21 June 1991 212 days Chandra Shekhar Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)
9 P. V. Narasimha Rao 21 June 1991 11 June 1995 3 years, 355 days P. V. Narasimha Rao Indian National Congress
10 Jagannath Mishra 11 June 1995 16 May 1996 340 days
11 Atal Bihari Vajpayee 16 May 1996 1 June 1996 16 days Atal Bihari Vajpayee Bharatiya Janata Party
12 Kinjarapu Yerran Naidu 1 June 1996 19 March 1998 1 year, 291 days H. D. Deve Gowda
I. K. Gujral 		Telugu Desam Party
13 Babagouda Patil
(Independent Charge) 		20 March 1998 13 October 1999 1 year, 207 days Atal Bihari Vajpayee Bharatiya Janata Party
14 Sundar Lal Patwa 13 October 1999 30 September 2000 353 days
15 Error creating thumbnail: File missing M. Venkaiah Naidu 30 September 2000 1 July 2002 1 year, 274 days
16 Shanta Kumar 1 July 2002 6 April 2003 279 days
17 Ananth Kumar 6 April 2003 24 May 2003 48 days
18 Kashiram Rana 24 May 2003 22 May 2004 364 days
19 Error creating thumbnail: File missing Raghuvansh Prasad Singh 23 May 2004 22 May 2009 4 years, 364 days Manmohan Singh Rashtriya Janata Dal
20 C. P. Joshi 28 May 2009 19 January 2011 1 year, 236 days Indian National Congress
21 Vilasrao Deshmukh 19 January 2011 12 July 2011 174 days
22 Jairam Ramesh 13 July 2011 26 May 2014 2 years, 317 days
23 Gopinath Munde 26 May 2014 3 June 2014 8 days Narendra Modi Bharatiya Janata Party
24 Nitin Gadkari 3 June 2014 9 November 2014 159 days
25 Birender Singh 9 November 2014 5 July 2016 1 year, 239 days
26 Narendra Singh Tomar 5 July 2016 7 July 2021 5 years, 2 days
27 Giriraj Singh 7 July 2021 Incumbent 5 years, 43 days

Ministers of State[edit | edit source]

Portrait Name Tenure Prime Minister Political Party
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Upendra Kushwaha 26 May 2014 9 November 2014 167 days Narendra Modi Rashtriya Lok Samta Party
Sudarshan Bhagat 9 November 2014 5 July 2016 1 year, 239 days Bharatiya Janata Party
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Ram Kripal Yadav 5 July 2016 30 May 2019 2 years, 329 days
Niranjan Jyoti 30 May 2019 Incumbent 7 years, 81 days
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Faggan Singh Kulaste 7 July 2021 5 years, 43 days

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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. ↑ "Overview". Department of Rural Development. Archived from the original on 8 February 2014. Retrieved 14 January 2014.
  4. ↑ "TERI: Innovative Solutions for Sustainable Development - India". www.teriin.org.
  5. ↑ "Schemes". Department of Land Resources. 5 February 2019. Retrieved 14 January 2014.

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