List of office-holders in the Government of India

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

Constitutional Office-Holders[edit]

Office Name Portrait Since
President Ram Nath Kovind Ram Nath Kovind official portrait.jpg 25 July 2017[1]
Vice President and ex-officio Chairperson of the Rajya Sabha Venkaiah Naidu Venkaiah Naidu official portrait.jpg 11 August 2017[2]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Prime Minister Modi in July 2021.jpg 26 May 2014[3]
Chief Justice N. V. Ramana
Justice N.V. Ramana.jpg
 24 April 2021
Speaker of the Lok Sabha Om Birla Om Birla Member of Parliament Rajasthan India.jpg 19 June 2019[4]
Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar CEC Rajiv Kumar.jpg 15 May 2022[5]
Comptroller and Auditor General Girish Chandra Murmu Shri Girish Chandra Murmu, Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir (cropped).jpg 8 August 2020
Chairperson of the Union Public Service Commission Dr. Manoj Soni 5 April 2022[6]
Attorney General K. K. Venugopal Kottayan Katankot Venugopal, K K Venugopal.jpg 30 June 2017

Cabinet Office-Holders[edit]

Office Name Portrait Since
Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah Shri Amit Shah taking charge as the Union Minister for Home Affairs, in New Delhi on June 01, 2019.jpg 30 May 2019
Minister of Finance Nirmala Sitharaman Nirmala Sitharaman (cropped).jpg 30 May 2019
Minister of Defence Rajnath Singh Rajnath.jpg 30 May 2019
Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar Subrahmanyam Jaishankar 2014.jpg 30 May 2019
Minister of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar Shri Narendra Singh Tomar, Union Minister for Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water & Sanitation and Urban Development (cropped).jpg 30 May 2019
Minister of Education Dharmendra Pradhan The Union Minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas and Steel, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan holding a press conference on Cabinet Decisions, in New Delhi on December 30, 2020.jpg 7 July 2021
Minister of Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw Minister.jpg 7 July 2021
Minister of Law and Justice Kiren Rijiju The Minister of State for Home Affairs, Shri Kiren Rijiju addressing the ‘India Disaster Response Summit’, in New Delhi on November 09, 2017.jpg 7 July 2021
Minister of Information and Broadcasting and Minister of sports Anurag Singh Thakur Shri Anurag Singh Thakur in July 2021.jpg 7 July 2021

Important office holders[edit]

Office Name Portrait Since
National Security Advisor Ajit Doval Ajit Doval 2014.jpg 30 May 2014
Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba Shri Rajiv Gauba.jpg 30 August 2019[7]
Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister Pramod Kumar Misra P. K. Misra, IAS (cropped).jpg 11 September 2019
Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla The Secretary, Ministry of Power, Shri Ajay Kumar Bhalla in New Delhi on May 31, 2019 (cropped).jpg 22 August 2019[8]
Finance Secretary T. V. Somanathan 28 April 2021[9]
Defence Secretary Ajay Kumar The Secretary (Defence Production), Dr. Ajay Kumar, in New Delhi on July 04, 2019 (cropped).jpg 23 August 2019[10]
Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra File:Shri Vinay Kwatra, Foreign Secretary.jpg 1 May 2022[11]
Law Secretary Anoop Kumar Mendiratta
Anoop Kumar Mendiratta (cropped to square).jpg
 23 October 2019
Secretary General of the Lok Sabha Utpal Kumar Singh 30 November 2020
Secretary General of the Rajya Sabha Pramod Chandra Mody 12 November 2021[12]
Secretary General of Supreme Court of India Sanjeev S. Kalgaonkar 20 December 2018[13]
Chairperson of the Railway Board Vinay Kumar Tripathi 1 January 2022[14]
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta 10 October 2018
Principal Scientific Adviser Ajay K. Sood Ajay-Kumar-Sood-FRS.jpg 3 April 2022[15]
Chief Economic Adviser V Anantha Nageswaran 28 January 2022[16]

Heads of commissions[edit]

Office Name Portrait Since
Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission Arun Kumar Mishra Justice Arun Mishra.jpg 2 June 2021[17]
Chairperson of the National Commission for Minorities Sardar Iqbal Singh Lalpura 9 September 2021[18]
Chairperson of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes Vijay Sampla The Minister of State for Social Justice & Empowerment, Shri Vijay Sampla addressing at the “International Conference on Bodhi Dharma and Zen Buddhism”, in New Delhi on November 20, 2015.jpg 18 February 2021[19]
Chairperson of the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes Harsh Chouhan 18 February 2021[20]
Chairperson of the National Commission for Backward Classes Bhagwan Lal Sahni 4 March 2019[21]
Chairperson of the National Commission for Women Rekha Sharma 7 August 2018[22]
Chairperson of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights Priyank Kanungo
Chairperson of the Central Administrative Tribunal L. Narasimha Reddy 1 July 2018[23]
Chairperson of the Central Vigilance Commission Suresh N. Patel 25 June 2021[24]
Chairperson of the Central Information Commission Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha YashvardhanKumarSinha.jpg 7 November 2020[25]
Chairperson of the Atomic Energy Commission K. N. Vyas
Secretary of the Department of Space S. Somanath

S. Somanath, Director of VSSC, ISRO, speaks during the Heads of Agency Plenary of the 70th International Astronautical Congress (cropped).jpg

15 January 2022[26]
Chairperson of the University Grants Commission M. Jagadesh Kumar Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar.jpg 4 February 2022[27]
Chairperson of the Central Water Commission Narendra Kumar
Director of the Space Applications Centre Nilesh M Desai
Chairperson of the National Forest Commission B. N. Kirpal Justice B.N. Kirpal.jpg
Chairperson of the National Council for Transgender Persons

Heads of financial bodies[edit]

Office Name Since
Chairperson of the 15th Finance Commission of India N. K. Singh 27 November 2017
Governor, of the Reserve Bank of India Shaktikanta Das 12 December 2018[28]
Chairperson of the Securities and Exchange Board of India Madhabi Puri Buch 1 March 2022
Chairperson of the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority Debasish Panda 12 March 2022[29]
Chairperson of the 7th Pay Commission Ashok Kumar Mathur 4 February 2014
Chairperson of the Small Industries Development Bank Sivasubramanian Ramann 19 April 2021
Chairperson of the Company Law Board Mahesh Kumar Mittal
Chairperson and Managing Director of the Export-Import Bank Harsha Bhupendra Bangari 7 September 2021[30]
Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of the National Housing Bank Sarada Kumar Hota
Chairperson of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development Govindarajulu Chinthala
Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of the Industrial Finance Corporation Emandi Sankara Rao [31]
Chairperson of the National Stock Exchange Girish Chandra Chaturvedi [32]
Chairperson of the Bombay Stock Exchange S. S. Mundra 18 May 2022[33]
Chairperson of the State Bank of India Dinesh Kumar Khara 7 October 2020[34]
Chairperson of the Industrial Development Bank Mahesh Kumar Jain [35]
Chairperson of the Life Insurance Corporation M. R. Kumar [36]
Chairperson of the Central Board of Direct Taxes Sangeeta Singh (additional charge) 2 May 2022[37]
Chairperson of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs Vivek Johri 1 December 2021
President of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Uday Shankar 31 December 2020[38]
Chairperson of the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority Supramita Bandhopadhaya [39]
President of the Confederation of Indian Industry Sanjiv Bajaj 13 May 2022[40]
Chairperson of the Competition Commission of India Ashok Kumar Gupta 8 November 2018[41]
President of the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry Balkrishna Goenka [42]
Chairperson of the National Statistical Commission GP Samant [43]
Director General of the Archaeological Survey V. Vidyavathi [44]
Chairperson of the Telecom Regulatory Authority P.D. Vaghela 28 September 2020[45]
Director of the Enforcement Directorate Sanjay Kumar Mishra [46]
Chief Managing Director of the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Alka Mittal [47]
Chairperson and Managing Director of the Gas Authority of India Limited Shri Manoj Jain [48]
Chairperson of the Indian Oil Corporation Limited Shrikant Madhav Vaidya [49]
Chairperson and Managing Director of the Oil India Limited Sushil Chandra Mishra[lower-alpha 1] 1 July 2022[50]

Defence and Security[edit]

Occupation Name Since
Chief of Defence Staff Vacant
Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari 30 September 2021[51]
Chief of the Army Staff General Manoj Pande 30 April 2022[52]
Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral R. Hari Kumar 30 November 2021
Chief of Integrated Defence Staff Air Marshal Balabhadra Radha Krishna 30 September 2021
Director General of the Defence Intelligence Agency Lieutenant General GAV Reddy 31 January 2022[citation needed]
Director of the Intelligence Bureau Tapan Deka, IPS 1 July 2022[53]
Secretary of the Research and Analysis Wing Samant Goel, IPS 29 June 2019
Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation Subodh Kumar Jaiswal, IPS 26 May 2021[54]
Director General of the Border Security Force Pankaj Kumar Singh, IPS 1 September 2021[55]
Director General of the Central Reserve Police Force Kuldiep Singh, IPS 13 January 2020
Director General of the Central Industrial Security Force Sheel Vardhan Singh, IPS 10 November 2021[56]
Director General of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police Sanjay Arora, IPS 1 September 2021[57]
Director General of the Sashastra Seema Bal Sujoy Lal Thaosen, IPS 1 June 2022[58]
Director General of the National Security Guard Shri M.A Ganapathy, IPS 19 March 2021[59]
Director General of the National Investigation Agency Kuldiep Singh, IPS (additional charge) 1 June 2021[60]
Director General of the National Disaster Response Force Shri Atul Karwal, IPS 10 November 2021[61]

Notes[edit]

  1. ↑ Ranjit Rath will succeed him when Mr. Mishra will superannuate on 30 June 2022.


See also[edit]

References[edit]

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