Minister of Steel

The Minister of Steel is the head of the Ministry of Steel and one of the cabinet ministers of the Government of India. He is assisted by a Secretary to the Government of India, an Additional Secretary and Financial Adviser to Government of India, 4 Joint Secretaries, a Chief Controller of Accounts also looking after the accounting matters of the Ministry, one Economic Adviser of the rank of Joint Secretary, 6 Directors, 2 Deputy Secretaries, 12 Under Secretaries, One Deputy Director, other Officers and supporting staff and a Technical Wing under the charge of an Industrial Adviser to Government of India. The current Hon'ble Minister of Steel is Shri Dharmendra Pradhan.

Steel Ministers of India

Name	Term of office		Party		Prime Minister
Swaran Singh (Steel, Mines, and Fuel)	17 April 1957	10 April 1962	Indian National Congress		Jawaharlal Nehru
C Subramaniam (Steel and Heavy Industry)	10 April 1962	21 November 1963
C Subramaniam (Steel, Mines, and Heavy Industry)	21 November 1963	09 June 1964			Jawaharlal Nehru Gulzari Lal Nanda
N. Sanjeeva Reddy (Steel and Mines)	09 June 1964	24 January 1966			Lal Bahadur Shastri
T. N. Singh (Iron and Steel)	29 January 1966	13 March 1967			Indira Gandhi
M. Chenna Reddy (Steel, Mines, and Metals)	16 March 1967	27 April 1968
Prakash Sethi (Iron and Steel, Mines, and Metals) (MoS)	27 April 1968	14 February 1969
C. M. Poonacha (Steel and Heavy Engineering)	14 February 1969	15 November 1969
Swaran Singh	15 November 1969	27 June 1970
B. R. Bhagat	27 June 1970	18 March 1971
S. Mohan Kumaramangalam	18 March 1971	02 May 1971
S. Mohan Kumaramangalam (Steel and Mines)	02 May 1971	31 May 1973
T. A. Pai	23 July 1973	11 January 1974
K. D. Malviya	11 January 1974	10 October 1974
Chandrajit Yadav (MoS)	10 October 1974	24 March 1977
Biju Patnaik (Steel, Mines, and Coal from 30 July 1979)	26 March 1977	15 July 1979	Janata Party		Morarji Desai
	30 July 1979	14 January 1980	Janata Party (Secular)		Charan Singh
Pranab Mukherjee (Steel and Mines)	14 January 1980	15 January 1982	Indian National Congress		Indira Gandhi
N. D. Tiwari	15 January 1982	14 February 1983
N. K. P. Salve (MoS, Independent Charge)	14 February 1983	31 December 1984			Indira Gandhi Rajiv Gandhi
Vasant Sathe (Steel, Mines, and Coal)	31 December 1984	25 September 1985			Rajiv Gandhi
K. C. Pant (Steel and Mines)	25 September 1985	12 April 1987
Vasant Sathe	12 April 1987	25 July 1987
M. L. Fotedar	25 July 1987	02 December 1989
Dinesh Goswami	06 December 1989	10 November 1989	Asom Gana Parishad (National Front)		V. P. Singh
Ashoke Kumar Sen	21 November 1990	21 June 1991	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)		Chandra Shekhar
Sontosh Mohan Dev (Steel)	21 June 1991	16 May 1996	Indian National Congress		P. V. Narasimha Rao
Atal Bihari Vajpayee	16 May 1996	01 June 1996	Bharatiya Janata Party		Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Birendra Prasad Baishya (Steel and Mines)	29 June 1996	19 March 1998	Asom Gana Parishad (United Front)		H. D. Deve Gowda I. K. Gujral
Naveen Patnaik	18 March 1998	13 October 1999	Janata Dal (National Democratic Alliance)		Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Dilip Kumar Ray (Steel) (MoS, Independent Charge)	13 October 1999	27 May 2000	Biju Janata Dal (National Democratic Alliance)
Braja Kishore Tripathy (MoS, Independent Charge)	27 May 2000	22 May 2004
Ram Vilas Paswan	23 May 2004	22 May 2009	Lok Janshakti Party (United Progressive Alliance)		Manmohan Singh
Virbhadra Singh	28 May 2009	18 January 2011	Indian National Congress (United Progressive Alliance)
Beni Prasad Verma (MoS, Independent Charge till 12 July 2011)	19 January 2011	26 May 2014
Narendra Singh Tomar	26 May 2014	05 July 2016	Bharatiya Janata Party (National Democratic Alliance)		Narendra Modi
Birender Singh	05 July 2016	30 May 2019
Dharmendra Pradhan	30 May 2019