Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

Ministry of Heavy Industries

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Ministry overview
Dissolved	7 July 2021
Website	dhi.nic.in

The Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises is an executive agency of the Government of India that administers 48 central public sector enterprises (PSEs) and assists them in their effort to improve capacity utilisation and increase profitability, generate resources and re-orient strategies to become more competitive. The ministry serves as an interface between PSEs and other agencies for long-term policy formulation. The ministry also encourages the restructuring of PSEs to make their operations competitive and viable on a long-term and sustainable basis.

The Ministry ceased to exist from 7 July 2021, splitting into the:

• Ministry of Heavy Industries
• Department Of Public Enterprises Merged Into Ministry of Finance

Ministers

№	Name	Term of office		Prime Minister
1	Jawaharlal Nehru	15 August 1947	12 December 1950
2	Vallabhbhai Patel	12 December 1950	26 December 1950	Jawaharlal Nehru
3	C. Rajagopalachari	26 December 1950	5 November 1951
4	Lal Bahadur Shastri	5 November 1951	5 November 1951
5	Kailash Nath Katju	5 November 1951	10 January 1955
6	Govind Ballabh Pant	10 January 1955	1 September 1963
7	Gulzarilal Nanda	1 September 1963	9 November 1966	Jawaharlal NehruLal Bahadur ShastriIndira Gandhi
8	Indira Gandhi	9 November 1966	13 November 1966	Indira Gandhi
9	Yashwantrao Chavan	13 November 1966	27 June 1970
(8)	Indira Gandhi	27 June 1970	5 February 1973
10	Uma Shankar Dikshit	5 February 1973	10 October 1974
11	Kasu Brahmananda Reddy	10 October 1974	24 March 1977
12	Charan Singh	24 March 1977	1 July 1978	Morarji Desai
13	Morarji Desai	1 July 1978	24 January 1979
14	Hirubhai M. Patel	24 January 1979	28 July 1979
15	Zail Singh	14 January 1980	22 June 1982	Indira Gandhi
16	R. Venkataraman	22 June 1982	2 September 1982
17	Prakash Chandra Sethi	2 September 1982	19 July 1984
18	P. V. Narasimha Rao	19 July 1984	31 December 1984	Indira GandhiRajiv Gandhi
19	Shankarrao Chavan	31 December 1984	12 March 1986	Rajiv Gandhi
20	Buta Singh	12 May 1986	2 December 1989
21	Mufti Mohammad Sayeed	2 December 1989	10 November 1990	V. P. Singh
22	Chandra Shekhar	10 November 1990	21 June 1996	Chandra Shekhar
23	Manohar Joshi	16 May 1996	1 June 1996	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
24	Vilasrao Deshmukh	1 June 1996	26 August 2002	H. D. Deve Gowda
25	Suresh Prabhu	26 August 2002	24 May 2004	H. D. Deve GowdaI. K. Gujral
26	Anant Geete	19 March 2002	22 May 2004	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
27	Shivraj Patil	22 May 2004	30 November 2005	Manmohan Singh
28	Sushilkumar Shinde	2005	2005
29	Santosh Mohan Dev	2005	2008
30	Praful Patel	30 November 2008	31 July 2014
31	Anant Geete	31 July 2014	26 May 2019
32	Arvind Sawant	26 May 2019	30 May 2019	Narendra Modi
33	Prakash Javadekar	30 May 2019	Incumbent

Ministers of State

Ministers of State in the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

Minister of state	Portrait	Political party		Term		Days
Pon Radhakrishnan		Bharatiya Janata Party		26 May 2014	9 November 2014	167 days
G. M. Siddeshwara	File:Gm siddeswara.jpg			9 November 2014	12 July 2016	611 days
Babul Supriyo				12 July 2016	30 May 2019	1052 days
Arjun Ram Meghwal				30 May 2019	7 July 2021	769 days

Department of Public Enterprises

The Department of Public Enterprises acts as a nodal agency for all Public Sector Enterprises and assists in policy formulation pertaining to the role of PSEs in the economy by laying down policy guidelines on performance improvement and evaluation, financial accounting, personnel management and in related areas. It also collects, evaluates, and maintains information on several areas in respect of PSEs. The Department has five constituent Divisions, viz; the Financial Policy Division, the Management Policy Division, the MOU Division, the Administration & Coordination Division and Permanent Machinery of Arbitration.

Role of DPE in issuing guidelines / directives to CPSEs

The role of DPE in issuing guidelines/directives is clearly defined in Report no.-2 of 2013 of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India on Compliance Audit of General Purpose Financial Reports of central public sector enterprises.

The directions/instructions are given to CPSEs through presidential directives as well as guidelines issued by administrative ministries or DPE.

Presidential directives are issued by the administrative ministries to the concerned CPSEs whenever the situation warrants and are mandatory. For the purpose of maintaining uniformity, such Directives are to be issued in consultation with the DPE if these relate to single CPSE and with the concurrence of the DPE if these are applicable to more than one CPSE.

Guidelines can be issued either by the Administrative Ministries or the DPE case-by-case and are advisory in nature. The Board of Directors of the CPSEs has the discretion not to adopt these guidelines for reasons to be recorded in writing. The Board Resolution on the subject giving the reasons therein is to be forwarded both to the Administrative Ministry concerned as well as to the DPE.

In the above-mentioned report no-2 of 2013 it is also mentioned that though the DPE guidelines are advisory. For good corporate governance, there should be an appropriate mechanism to enforce accountability of the Administrative Ministries and CPSEs to the compliance to DPE guidelines. An Audit review of the institutional arrangement DPE has in place to ensure compliance with its guidelines revealed that:

• DPE did not maintain the database as to which CPSE's boards adopted its guidelines.
• DPE did not have a mechanism to ensure compliance with all its guidelines.
• DPE did not write to CPSEs for recovery of irregular payments pointed out by an audit.

DPE guidelines on personnel policies

Different categories of guidelines on personnel policies are: (a) Creation Of Posts And Categorization (b) Composition Of Board Of Directors (c) Service Matters (d) Immediate Absorption-Deputation (e) Annual Performance Appraisal (f) Conduct, Discipline & Appeal Rules (g) Vigilance Policies (h) Reservation Policies (i) Report Of The Committee To Review The Format Of Annual Performance Report (APR) And Procedure For Writing APR

Salient feature DPE Guidelines on Annual Performance Appraisal

Format - Weightage of Personal Attributes (Competencies, Values, and Potentials) are to be rationalized to 25% for all executives including the chief executive. Balance 75% for MOU/Targets. This is as per "Report Of The kolkataff.fun Committee To Review The Format Of Annual Performance Report (APR) And Procedure For Writing APR"

Timely completion - [ [2]] Appraisal Process has to be completed before distribution of Performance Related Pay(PRP) as per DPE OM no 2(68) /11-DPE(WC) dated 31.12.2012.

Appeal - representations can be made against the adverse entries in Performance Appraisal Report. Any deviation of Performance Appraisal score can be appealed. Reference: DPE OM No. 5(1)/2000-GM Dated the 28.05.2009 and Supreme Court of India, Dev Dutt vs Union Of India & Ors on 12.05. 2008

Last date of appeal - Last date of appeal has to be mentioned in the Final PMS scorecard while communicating the score by reporting officer.

Time limit of Appeal - 6 weeks to appeal and 6 weeks to be readdressed.

Disposal of representation against APAR score in a Quasi-judicial Manner

As per DOPT (Department of Personnel & Training), OM No. 21011/1/2005-Estt.(A)(Part.III) dated 31.01.2014

The representations against the remarks or for up gradation of final grading in the APAR (Annual Performance Appraisal Reports) be considered by the competent authority objectively in a quasi-judicial manner on the basis of material placed before it. It provides that the competent authority shall take into account the contentions of the officer who has represented against the particular remarks/ grading in the APAR and also take the views from the reporting and reviewing officer.

References

8. https://www.loksatta.com/maharashtra-news/arvind-sawant-gets-ministry-of-heavy-industries-and-public-enterprises-1904034/

External links

• Ministry website
• [kolkataff.fun Department of Public Enterprises website]