List of office-holders in the Government of India

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This is a list of current office holder of various fields in Government of India.

Current Constitutional office-holders of India[edit | edit source]

Office Name Portrait Since Ref.
President Droupadi Murmu 25 July 2022 [1]
Vice President C. P. Radhakrishnan File:CPRadhakrishnan.png 12 September 2025 [2]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi 26 May 2014 [3]
Chief Justice Surya Kant 24 November 2025
Speaker of Lok Sabha Om Birla 19 June 2019 [4]
Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar 19 February 2025 [5]
Comptroller and Auditor General K Sanjay Murthy 21 November 2024 [6]
Chairperson of Union Public Service Commission Ajay Kumar 15 May 2025
Attorney General R. Venkataramani 1 Oct 2022

Cabinet Ministers[edit | edit source]

Office Name Portrait Since
Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah 30 May 2019
Minister of Finance Nirmala Sitharaman 30 May 2019
Minister of Defence Rajnath Singh 30 May 2019
Minister of External Affairs S. Jaishankar 30 May 2019
Minister of Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw 7 July 2021
Bureaucrats with Cabinet Minister rank
National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, IPS 30 May 2014
Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister Pramod Kumar Mishra, IAS 11 September 2019
Shaktikanta Das, IAS 22February 2025[7]

Important Bureaucratic officeholders[edit | edit source]

Cabinet Secretary T. V. Somanathan, IAS

30 August 2024[8]
Home Secretary Govind Mohan, IAS 22 August 2024[9]
Finance Secretary Ajay Seth, IAS 1 April 2025[10]
Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh, IAS 1 November 2024[11]
Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, IFS 15 July 2024[12]
Secretary General of the Lok Sabha Utpal Kumar Singh, IAS 30 November 2020
Secretary General of the Rajya Sabha Pramod Chandra Mody, IRS (IT) 12 November 2021[13]
Secretary General of the Supreme Court of India Bharat Parashar, H.J.S. 3 August 2023
Chairperson of the Railway Board Satish Kumar, IRSME 1 September 2024
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta 10 October 2018
Principal Scientific Adviser Ajay K. Sood 3 April 2022[14]
Chief Economic Adviser V. Anantha Nageswaran 28 January 2022[15]

Heads of commissions[edit | edit source]

Office Name Portrait Since
Chairperson, National Human Rights Commission V. Ramasubramanian 23 December 2024[16]
Chairperson, National Commission for Minorities Iqbal Singh Lalpura 9 September 2021[17]
Chairperson, National Commission for Scheduled Castes Kishor Makwana 9 March 2024[18]
Chairperson, National Commission for Scheduled Tribes Antar Singh Arya 9 March 2024[19]
Chairperson, National Commission for Backward Classes Hansraj Gangaram Ahir 5 December 2022 [20]
Chairperson, National Commission for Women Vijaya Kishore Rahatkar 22 October 2024[21]
Chairperson, National Commission for Protection of Child Rights Priyank Kanoongo
Chairperson, Central Administrative Tribunal Ranjit More 30 July 2022[22]
Chairperson, Central Vigilance Commission Praveen Kumar Srivastava 28 December 2022
Chairperson, Central Information Commission Raj Kumar Goyal 15 December 2025
Chairperson, Atomic Energy Commission Ajit Kumar Mohanty 1 May 2023[23]
Secretary, Department of Space V. Narayanan 15 January 2022[24]
Chairperson, University Grants Commission Vineet Joshi

(acting)

13 April 2025[25]
Chairperson, Competition Commission of India Ravneet Kaur 23 May 2023[26]
Chairperson, Central Water Commission Atul Jain 1 May 2025
Chairperson, National Forest Commission B. N. Kirpal
Chairperson, National Council for Transgender Persons Laxmi Narayan Tripathi 27 August 2020[27]

Heads of financial bodies[edit | edit source]

Office Name Since
Chairperson, 16th Finance Commission Arvind Panagariya 16 January 2024
Governor of Reserve Bank of India Sanjay Malhotra 11 December 2024[28]
Chairperson, Securities and Exchange Board of India Tuhin Kanta Pandey 1 March 2025
Chairperson, Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority Ajay Seth 1 September 2025
Chairperson, 8th Pay Commission Ranjana Desai 29 October 2025[29]
Chairperson, Small Industries Development Bank Manoj Mittal 19 April 2024
Chairperson and managing director, Export-Import Bank Harsha Bhupendra Bangari 7 September 2021[30]
Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, National Housing Bank Sanjay Shukla 10 April 2024
Chairperson, National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development Shaji K. V. 7 December 2022
Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Industrial Finance Corporation Rahul Bhave[31] 1 December 2024
Chairperson, National Stock Exchange Girish Chandra Chaturvedi [32]
Chairperson, Bombay Stock Exchange Subhasis Chaudhuri 22 November 2024
Chairperson, State Bank of India Challa Sreenivasulu Setty 28 August 2024
Chairperson, Industrial Development Bank M. R. Kumar [33]
Chairperson, Life Insurance Corporation R Doraiswamy 15 June 2025
Chairperson of the Central Board of Direct Taxes Ravi Agarwal, (IRS(IT)) 1 July 2024
Chairperson of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs Vivek Chaturvedi , (IRS (CIT)) 1 December 2025
President, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Subhrakant Panda 1 May 2025
Chairperson, Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority Sivasubramanian Ramann 1 June 2025
President, Confederation of Indian Industry Rajiv Memani 3 June 2025
President, Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry Sanjay Nayar
Chairperson, National Statistical Commission Rajeeva Laxman Karandikar 1 December 2022[34]
Director, Enforcement Directorate Rahul Navin 16 September 2023[35]

Defence and Security[edit | edit source]

Occupation Name From year
Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan 30 September 2022
Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh 30 September 2024
Chief of the Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi 30 June 2024
Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Dinesh Kumar Tripathi 1 May 2024
Chief of Integrated Defence Staff Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit 1 May 2025
Director General, Defence Intelligence Agency Lieutenant General D S Rana As of late 2025 and into 2026
Director of the Intelligence Bureau Tapan Deka, IPS 1 July 2022[36]
Secretary, Research and Analysis Wing Parag Jain, IPS 1 July 2025
Secretary, Special Protection Group Parag Jain, IPS[lower-alpha 1] 12 November 2025[37]
Director, Central Bureau of Investigation Praveen Sood, IPS 25 May 2023[38]
Director General, Border Security Force Praveen Kumar, IPS 1 December 2025
Director General, Central Reserve Police Force Gyanendra Pratap Singh, IPS 20 January 2025
Director General, Central Industrial Security Force Praveer Ranjan, IPS 1 October 2025
Director General, Indo-Tibetan Border Police Shatrujeet Singh Kapoor, IPS 15 January 2026
Director General, Sashastra Seema Bal Sanjay Singhal, IPS 1 September 2025
Director General, National Security Guard B. Srinivasan, IPS 28 August 2024
Director General, National Investigation Agency Rakesh Aggarwal, IPS 15 January 2026
Director General, National Disaster Response Force Piyush Anand, IPS 1 April 2024

Notes[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ (additional charge)

References[edit | edit source]

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  2. ↑ "C. P. Radhakrishnan takes oath as 15th Vice-President of India". The Hindu. 12 September 2025.
  3. ↑ "Narendra Modi sworn in Prime Minister". The Hindu. 26 May 2014. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  4. ↑ "Newly-elected Lok Sabha Speaker, Shri Om Birla Calls On the Vice President". 19 June 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  5. ↑ "Gyanesh Kumar takes charge as Chief Election Commissioner". The Hindu. 19 February 2025. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
  6. ↑ "K. Sanjay Murthy assumes office as Comptroller and Auditor General of India". The Hindu. 21 November 2024. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
  7. ↑ "Former RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das appointed as Principal Secretary-2 to PM Modi". The Hindu. 22 February 2025. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
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  13. ↑ "PC Mody replaces Ramacharyulu as Rajya Sabha secretary general". Hindustan Times. 12 November 2021. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  14. ↑ Mohan, Vishwa. "Ajay Kumar Sood of IISc Bangalore appointed new Principal Scientific Advisor". The Times of India. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
  15. ↑ "ISB professor Krishnamurthy Subramanian appointed as new Chief Economic Adviser". The Indian Express. 7 December 2018. Retrieved 7 December 2018.
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