Ministry of Rural Development (India)

Ministry of Rural Development
Department overview
Jurisdiction	Republic of India
Headquarters	Krishi Bhavan, New Delhi
Annual budget	₹122,398 crore (US$17 billion) (2020-21 est.)
Ministers responsible	Giriraj Singh, Cabinet Minister; Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, Minister of State; Shri Faggan Singh Kulaste, Minister of State;
Website	rural.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

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

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]

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

Department of Land Resources

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

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

No	Name	Tenure			Political Party	Prime Minister
1	Rao Birendra Singh	20 January 1980	29 January 1983	3 years, 9 days	Indian National Congress	Indira Gandhi
2	Harinath Mishra (Independent Charge)	29 January 1983	2 August 1984	1 year, 186 days		Indira Gandhi
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	Janata Dal	V. P. Singh
8	Ram Bahadur Singh (MoS in Agriculture – Dept of Rural Development)	21 November 1990	21 June 1991	212 days	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)	Chandra Shekhar
9	P. V. Narasimha Rao	21 June 1991	11 June 1995	3 years, 355 days	Indian National Congress	P. V. Narasimha Rao
10	Jagannath Mishra	11 June 1995	16 May 1996	340 days	Indian National Congress	P. V. Narasimha Rao
11	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	16 May 1996	1 June 1996	16 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
12	Kinjarapu Yerran Naidu	1 June 1996	19 March 1998	1 year, 291 days	Telugu Desam Party	H. D. Deve Gowda I. K. Gujral
13	Babagouda Patil (Independent Charge)	20 March 1998	13 October 1999	1 year, 207 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
14	Sundar Lal Patwa	13 October 1999	30 September 2000	353 days
15	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	Raghuvansh Prasad Singh	23 May 2004	22 May 2009	4 years, 364 days	Rashtriya Janata Dal	Manmohan Singh
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	Bharatiya Janata Party	Narendra Modi
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, 39 days

Ministers of State

N	Name	Term of office
1	Asaf Ali	2 September 1946	14 August 1947
2	John Mathai	15 August 1947	22 September 1948
3	N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar	22 September 1948	13 May 1952
4	Lal Bahadur Shastri	13 May 1952	7 December 1956
5	C. M. Poonacha	13 March 1967	14 February 1969
6	Ram Subhag Singh	14 February 1969	4 November 1969
7	Gulzarilal Nanda	18 February 1970	17 March 1971
8	T. A. Pai	23 July 1972	4 February 1973
9	Lalit Narayan Mishra	5 February 1973	2 January 1975
10	Kamalapati Tripathi	11 February 1975	23 March 1977
11	Madhu Dandavate	26 March 1977	28 July 1979
12	Rao Birendra Singh	30 July 1979	13 January 1980
13	Kamalapati Tripathi	14 January 1980	12 November 1980
14	Kedar Pandey	12 November 1980	14 January 1982
15	Prakash Chandra Sethi	15 January 1982	2 September 1982
16	A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury	2 September 1982	31 December 1984
17	Bansi Lal	31 December 1984	4 June 1986
18	Mohsina Kidwai	24 June 1986	21 October 1986
19	Madhavrao Scindia	22 October 1986	1 December 1989
20	George Fernandes	5 December 1989	10 November 1990
21	Janeshwar Mishra	1990	1991
22	C. K. Jaffer Sharief	21 June 1991	16 October 1995
23	Ram Vilas Paswan	1 June 1996	19 March 1998
24	Nitish Kumar	19 March 1998	5 August 1999
25	Ram Naik	6 August 1999	12 October 1999
26	Mamata Banerjee	13 October 1999	15 March 2001
27	Jagannath Mishra	2001	2002
28	Lalu Prasad Yadav	2004	2005
29	Dinesh Trivedi	12 July 2011	14 March 2012
30	Mukul Roy	20 March 2012	21 September 2012
31	C. P. Joshi	22 September 2012	28 October 2012
32	Pawan Kumar Bansal	28 October 2012	10 May 2013
33	Mallikarjun Kharge	17 June 2013	25 May 2014
34	Nitin Gadkari	26 May 2014	9 November 2014
35	Birender Singh	10 November 2014	2016
36	Ram Kripal Yadav	2016	2016
37	Narendra Singh Tomar	2016	2019
38	Niranjan Jyoti	2019	Incumbent

References

↑ "Union Budget 2020-21 Analysis" (PDF). prsindia.org. 2020.
↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 18 June 2015. Retrieved 18 June 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
↑ "Overview". Department of Rural Development. Archived from the original on 8 February 2014. Retrieved 14 January 2014.
↑ "TERI: Innovative Solutions for Sustainable Development - India". www.teriin.org.
↑ "Schemes". Department of Land Resources. 5 February 2019. Retrieved 14 January 2014.

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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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