Minister of Railways (India)

भारत के रेल मंत्री Minister Of Railway India
Emblem of India
File:AshwiniVaishnaw2021.jpg Incumbent Ashwini Vaishnaw since 7 July 2021
Ministry of Railways
Member of	Cabinet of India
Appointer	President on the advice of the Prime Minister
Inaugural holder	John Mathai
Formation	15 August 1947

The Minister of Railways is the head of the Ministry of Railways of the Government of India. The railway minister is usually accorded a cabinet rank, and is responsible for Indian Railways, one of the largest employers in the world. An important responsibility of the railway minister was to present in Parliament the Railway Budget, the Annual Financial Statement of Indian Railways.

List of Railway Ministers

№	Name	Portrait	Term of office			Political party (Alliance)		Prime Minister
1	John Mathai	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	15 August 1947	22 September 1948	1 year, 38 days	Indian National Congress		Jawaharlal Nehru
2	N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	22 September 1948	13 May 1952	3 years, 234 days
3	Lal Bahadur Shastri		13 May 1952	7 December 1956	4 years, 208 days
4	Jagjivan Ram	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	7 December 1956	10 April 1962	5 years, 124 days
5	Swaran Singh		10 April 1962	21 September 1963	1 year, 164 days
6	H. C. Dasappa		21 September 1963	8 June 1964	261 days
7	S. K. Patil		9 June 1964	12 March 1967	2 years, 276 days			Lal Bahadur Shastri Indira Gandhi
8	C. M. Poonacha	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	13 March 1967	14 February 1969	1 year, 338 days			Indira Gandhi
9	Ram Subhag Singh	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	14 February 1969	4 November 1969	263 days
10	Panampilly Govinda Menon	File:PanampillyGovindaMenon.jpg	4 November 1969	18 February 1970	106 days
11	Gulzarilal Nanda	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	18 February 1970	17 March 1971	1 year, 27 days
12	K. Hanumanthaiah		18 March 1971	22 July 1972	1 year, 126 days
13	T. A. Pai		23 July 1972	4 February 1973	196 days
14	Lalit Narayan Mishra	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	5 February 1973	2 January 1975	1 year, 331 days
15	Kamalapati Tripathi		11 February 1975	23 March 1977	2 years, 40 days
16	Madhu Dandavate		26 March 1977	28 July 1979	2 years, 124 days	Janata Party		Morarji Desai
(13)	T. A. Pai		30 July 1979	14 January 1980	168 days	Janata Party (Secular)		Charan Singh
(15)	Kamalapati Tripathi		14 January 1980	12 November 1980	303 days	Indian National Congress		Indira Gandhi
17	Kedar Pandey	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	12 November 1980	14 January 1982	1 year, 63 days
18	Prakash Chandra Sethi		15 January 1982	2 September 1982	230 days
19	A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury		2 September 1982	31 December 1984	2 years, 120 days			Indira Gandhi Rajiv Gandhi
20	Bansi Lal (Minister of Transport from 25 Sept 1985 onwards)		31 December 1984	24 June 1986	1 year, 175 days			Rajiv Gandhi
21	Mohsina Kidwai (As Minister of Transport)		24 June 1986	21 October 1986	119 days
22	Madhavrao Scindia (Independent Charge)		22 October 1986	2 December 1989	3 years, 41 days
23	George Fernandes	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	2 December 1989	10 November 1990	343 days	Janata Dal (National Front)		V. P. Singh
24	Janeshwar Mishra		21 November 1990	21 June 1991	212 days	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)	width="4px" bgcolor="Template:Samajwadi Janata Party/meta/color"|	Chandra Shekhar
25	C. K. Jaffer Sharief	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	21 June 1991	17 October 1995	4 years, 118 days	Indian National Congress		P. V. Narasimha Rao
26	Ram Vilas Paswan	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	1 June 1996	19 March 1998	1 year, 291 days	Janata Dal (United Front)		H. D. Deve Gowda I. K. Gujral
27	Nitish Kumar		19 March 1998	5 August 1999	1 year, 139 days	Samata Party		Atal Bihari Vajpayee
28	Ram Naik	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	6 August 1999	13 October 1999	69 days	Bharatiya Janata Party
29	Mamata Banerjee	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	13 October 1999	15 March 2001	1 year, 153 days	All India Trinamool Congress
(27)	Nitish Kumar		20 March 2001	22 May 2004	3 years, 63 days	Janata Dal (United)
30	Lalu Prasad Yadav		22 May 2004	22 May 2009	5 years, 0 days	Rashtriya Janata Dal		Manmohan Singh
(29)	Mamata Banerjee	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	22 May 2009	19 May 2011	1 year, 362 days	All India Trinamool Congress
31	Dinesh Trivedi	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	12 July 2011	19 March 2012	251 days
32	Mukul Roy	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	20 March 2012	22 September 2012	186 days
33	C. P. Joshi	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	22 September 2012	28 October 2012	36 days	Indian National Congress
34	Pawan Kumar Bansal	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	29 October 2012	10 May 2013	194 days
(33)	C. P. Joshi	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	13 May 2013	14 June 2013	32 days
35	Mallikarjun Kharge		17 June 2013	26 May 2014	343 days
36	D. V. Sadananda Gowda	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	26 May 2014	9 November 2014	167 days	Bharatiya Janata Party		Narendra Modi
37	Suresh Prabhu	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	9 November 2014	3 September 2017	2 years, 298 days
38	Piyush Goyal	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	3 September 2017	7 July 2021	3 years, 307 days
39	Ashwini Vaishnaw	File:AshwiniVaishnaw2021.jpg	7 July 2021	Incumbent	5 years, 37 days
If the office of Minister of Railways is vacant for any length of time, it automatically comes under the charge of the Prime Minister.

List of Ministers of State

Ministers of State in the Ministry of Railways

Minister of state	Portrait	Political party		Term		Days
Manoj Sinha	File:Manoj Sinha Profile Pic.jpeg	Bharatiya Janata Party		26 May 2014	30 May 2019	1830 days
Rajen Gohain				5 July 2016	30 May 2019	1059 days
Suresh Angadi				30 May 2019	23 September 2020	482 days
Raosaheb Danve				7 July 2021	Incumbent	1863 days
Darshana Jardosh	File:Darshana vikram jardosh.jpg			7 July 2021	Incubment	1863 days

References

• Railway Ministers of Independent India at the Indian Railways Fan Club