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| Minister of Education Shiksha Mantrī | |
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| Ministry of Education | |
| Member of | Union Cabinet |
| Reports to | Prime Minister of India |
| Residence | New Delhi, India |
| Nominator | Prime Minister of India |
| Appointer | President of India on the advice of the Prime Minister |
| Term length | 5 year |
| Formation | 15 August 1947 |
The Minister of Education, formerly the Minister of Human Resources Development (1985-2020),[1] is the head of the Ministry of Education and one of the cabinet ministers of the Government of India. The recent one was Ramesh Pokhriyal who resigned on 7 July 2021 citing health issues.
List of Ministers
| No. | Name | Portrait | Term of office | Party | Prime Minister | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad | 
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15 August 1947 | 22 January 1958 | 10 years, 160 days | Indian National Congress | Jawaharlal Nehru | |
| 2 | K. L. Shrimali[lower-alpha 1] | 22 January 1958 | 31 August 1963 | 5 years, 221 days | ||||
| 3 | Humayun Kabir | 1 September 1963 | 21 November 1963 | 81 days | ||||
| 4 | M. C. Chagla | 
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21 November 1963 | 13 November 1966 | 2 years, 357 days | Jawaharlal Nehru Lal Bahadur Shastri Indira Gandhi | ||
| 5 | Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed | 
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14 November 1966 | 13 March 1967 | 119 days | Indira Gandhi | ||
| 6 | Triguna Sen | 
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16 March 1967 | 14 February 1969 | 1 year, 335 days | |||
| 7 | V. K. R. V. Rao | 14 February 1969 | 18 March 1971 | 2 years, 32 days | ||||
| 8 | Siddhartha Shankar Ray | File:Sidharth Shankar Ray Official portrait 1986.jpg | 18 March 1971 | 20 March 1972 | 1 year, 2 days | |||
| 9 | S. Nurul Hasan[lower-alpha 2] | .jpg)
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24 March 1972 | 24 March 1977 | 5 years, 0 days | |||
| 10 | Pratap Chandra Chunder | 26 March 1977 | 28 July 1979 | 2 years, 124 days | Janata Party | Morarji Desai | ||
| 11 | Karan Singh | .jpg)
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30 July 1979 | 14 January 1980 | 168 days | Indian National Congress (Urs) | Charan Singh | |
| 12 | B. Shankaranand | 14 January 1980 | 17 October 1980 | 277 days | Indian National Congress | Indira Gandhi | ||
| 13 | Shankarrao Chavan | 
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17 October 1980 | 8 August 1981 | 295 days | |||
| 14 | Sheila Kaul[lower-alpha 3] | 10 August 1981 | 31 December 1984 | 3 years, 143 days | Indira Gandhi Rajiv Gandhi | |||
| 15 | K. C. Pant | .jpg)
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31 December 1984 | 25 September 1985 | 268 days | Rajiv Gandhi | ||
| 16 | P. V. Narasimha Rao
(Minister of Human Resource Development) |
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25 September 1985 | 25 June 1988 | 2 years, 274 days | Indian National Congress | Rajiv Gandhi | |
| 17 | P. Shiv Shankar | 25 June 1988 | 2 December 1989 | 1 year, 160 days | ||||
| 18 | V. P. Singh | .jpg)
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2 December 1989 | 10 November 1990 | 343 days | Janata Dal (National Front) |
V. P. Singh | |
| 19 | Rajmangal Pandey | 21 November 1990 | 21 June 1991 | 212 days | Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) | Chandra Shekhar | ||
| 20 | Arjun Singh | 
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23 June 1991 | 24 December 1994 | 3 years, 184 days | Indian National Congress | P. V. Narasimha Rao | |
| (16) | P. V. Narasimha Rao |
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25 December 1994 | 9 February 1995 | 47 days | |||
| 21 | Madhavrao Scindia | 
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10 February 1995 | 17 January 1996 | 341 days | |||
| (16) | P. V. Narasimha Rao |
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17 January 1996 | 16 May 1996 | 120 days | |||
| 22 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | 
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16 May 1996 | 1 June 1996 | 16 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | |
| 23 | S. R. Bommai | 
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5 June 1996 | 19 March 1998 | 1 year, 287 days | Janata Dal | H. D. Deve Gowda I. K. Gujral | |
| 24 | Murli Manohar Joshi | 
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19 March 1998 | 22 May 2004 | 6 years, 64 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | |
| 25 | Arjun Singh |
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22 May 2004 | 22 May 2009 | 5 years, 0 days | Indian National Congress | Manmohan Singh | |
| 26 | Kapil Sibal | .jpg)
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29 May 2009 | 29 October 2012 | 3 years, 153 days | |||
| 27 | M. M. Pallam Raju | .jpg)
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30 October 2012 | 26 May 2014 | 1 year, 208 days | |||
| 28 | Smriti Irani | 
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26 May 2014 | 5 July 2016 | 2 years, 40 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Narendra Modi | |
| 29 | Prakash Javadekar | 
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5 July 2016 | 30 May 2019 | 2 years, 329 days | |||
| 30 | Ramesh Pokhriyal
(Minister of Education from 29 July 2020 onwards)[1] |
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30 May 2019 | 7 July 2021 | 2 years, 38 days | |||
| 31 | Dharmendra Pradhan | .jpg)
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7 July 2021 | Incumbent | 5 years, 37 days | |||
Notes
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "HRD Ministry Renamed as Ministry of Education as Modi Cabinet Reverses Change Made by Rajiv Gandhi". News18. 29 July 2020. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
