Ministry of Commerce and Industry (India)

Minister of Commerce and Industry
( *वाणिज्य एवं उद्योग मंत्री*)
Minister of Commerce and Industry; ( वाणिज्य एवं उद्योग मंत्री)
	Emblem of India
	Incumbent; Piyush Goyal; since 31 May 2019
	Ministry of Commerce and Industry
Style	The Honourable
Nominator	Prime Minister
Appointer	President (on the advice of the Prime Minister)
Inaugural holder	Syama Prasad Mukherjee
Formation	1947
Website	commerce.gov.in

Ministry of Commerce and Industry (India)
	Emblem of India
Agency overview
Jurisdiction	Republic of India
Headquarters	New Delhi
Agency executives	Piyush Goyal, Cabinet Minister; Anupriya Patel, Minister of State; Som Parkash, Minister of State;
Website	Department of Commerce Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade

The Ministry of Commerce and Industry administers two departments, the Department of Commerce and the Department for Promotion of Industry & Internal Trade (formerly Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion). The head of the Ministry is a Minister of Cabinet rank.

Minister of Commerce and Industry[edit]

The Minister of Commerce and Industry is the head of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and one of the cabinet ministers of the Government of India. The first Minister of Commerce and Industry of independent India was Syama Prasad Mukherjee. The current Minister is Piyush Goyal of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Goyal took over from Suresh Prabhu on 31 May 2019.^[3]

Past Ministers: Industry[edit]

Name	Term of office		Party		Prime Minister
Syama Prasad Mukherjee	15 August 1947	19 April 1950	Indian National Congress		Jawaharlal Nehru
Harekrushna Mahtab	13 May 1950	26 December 1950
Nityanand Kanungo	19 July 1963	9 June 1964
Ram Subhag Singh	9 June 1964	13 June 1964			Lal Bahadur Shastri
H. C. Dasappa	19 July 1964	29 October 1964
Tribhuvan Narain Singh	30 October 1964	24 January 1966
Damodaram Sanjivayya	24 January 1966	13 March 1967			Indira Gandhi
F. A. Ahmed (Industrial Development)	13 March 1967	27 June 1970
Dinesh Singh (Industrial Development and Internal Trade)	27 June 1970	18 March 1971
Moinul Hoque Choudhury (Industrial Development)	18 March 1971	22 July 1972
C Subramaniam (Industrial Development)	22 July 1972	10 October 1974
T. A. Pai (Industry)	10 October 1974	23 March 1977
Brij Lal Verma	28 March 1977	6 July 1977	Janata Party		Morarji Desai
George Fernandes	6 July 1977	15 July 1977	Janata Party		Morarji Desai
Kasu Brahmananda Reddy	30 July 1979	27 November 1979	Indian National Congress (Urs)		Charan Singh
T. A. Pai	27 November 1979	14 January 1980	Indian National Congress (Urs)		Charan Singh
N. D. Tiwari	8 August 1981	3 August 1984	Indian National Congress		Indira Gandhi
Kotla Vijay Bhaskar Reddy	7 September 1984	31 December 1984			Indira Gandhi
Veerendra Patil	14 January 1985	25 September 1985			Rajiv Gandhi
N. D. Tiwari	25 September 1985	22 October 1986
J. Vengala Rao	22 October 1986	2 December 1989
Ajit Singh^[4]^[5]	5 December 1989	10 November 1990	Janata Dal (National Front)		V. P. Singh
K. Karunakaran	11 June 1995	16 May 1996	Indian National Congress		P. V. Narasimha Rao
Suresh Prabhu	16 May 1996	1 June 1996	Shiv Sena		Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Murasoli Maran	1 June 1996	19 March 1998	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (United Front)	width="4px" bgcolor="Template:DMK/meta/color" rowspan=1\|	H. D. Dewe Gowda
Sikandar Bakht	19 March 1998	13 October 1999	Bharatiya Janata Party (National Democratic Alliance)		Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Past Ministers: Commerce[edit]

Name	Term of office		Party		Prime Minister
I. I. Chundrigar	2 September 1946	14 August 1947	All-India Muslim League		Jawaharlal Nehru (as Vice President of the Executive Council)
Cooverji Hormusji Bhabha (Commerce)	15 August 1947	6 April 1948	Indian National Congress		Jawaharlal Nehru
Kshitish Chandra Neogy (Commerce)	6 April 1948	19 April 1950
Jawaharlal Nehru (Commerce and Industry)	19 April 1950	29 May 1950
Sri Prakasa (Commerce)	29 May 1950	26 December 1950
Harekrushna Mahtab (Commerce and Industry)	26 December 1950	13 May 1952
T T Krishnamachari (Commerce and Industry)	13 May 1952	30 August 1956
Swaran Singh	30 August 1956	14 November 1956
Morarji Desai (Commerce and Industry)	14 November 1956	28 March 1958
Lal Bahadur Shastri (Commerce and Industry)	28 March 1958	05 April 1961
KC Reddy (Commerce and Industry)	05 April 1961	19 July 1963
Manubhai Shah (As MoS till 24 January 1966) (Commerce)	19 July 1963	13 March 1967			Lal Bahadur Shastri
Dinesh Singh (Commerce)	13 March 1967	14 February 1969			Indira Gandhi
Bali Ram Bhagat (Foreign Trade and Supply)	14 February 1969	27 June 1970
Dinesh Singh (Commerce)	27 June 1970	10 March 1971
Lalit Narayan Mishra (MoS)	27 June 1970	05 February 1973
D. P. Chattopadhyay (Commerce) (as MoS till 23 December 1976)	05 February 1973	24 March 1977
Morarji Desai (Commerce)	26 March 1977	28 July 1979	Janata Party		Morarji Desai
Mohan Dharia (Commerce)	26 March 1977	28 July 1979	Janata Party		Morarji Desai
Charan Singh (Commerce)	28 July 1979	30 July 1979	Janata Party (Secular)		Charan Singh
Hitendra Desai (Commerce)	30 July 1979	14 January 1980	Janata Party (Secular)		Charan Singh
Indira Gandhi	14 January 1980	16 January 1980	Indian National Congress		Indira Gandhi
Pranab Mukherjee (Commerce)^[6]	16 January 1980	15 January 1982
Shivraj Patil (MoS, Independent Charge) (Commerce)^[7]	15 January 1982	29 January 1983
V. P. Singh^[8]	29 January 1983	7 September 1984
Pranab Mukherjee (Commerce)^[6]	7 September 1984	31 December 1984			Indira Gandhi Rajiv Gandhi
Rajiv Gandhi	31 December 1984	14 January 1985			Rajiv Gandhi
V. P. Singh^[9]	14 January 1985	25 September 1985
Arjun Singh	15 November 1985	20 January 1986
P Shiv Shankar (Commerce)	20 January 1986	25 July 1987
N. D. Tiwari (Commerce)	25 July 1987	25 June 1988
Dinesh Singh (Commerce and Industry)	25 June 1988	2 December 1989
V. P. Singh	02 December 1989	06 December 1989	Janata Dal (National Front)		V. P. Singh
Arun Nehru (Commerce)^[10]^[4]	06 December 1989	10 November 1990	Janata Dal (National Front)		V. P. Singh
Chandra Shekhar (Commerce)	10 November 1990	21 November 1990	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)		Chandra Shekhar
Subramanian Swamy (Commerce)	21 November 1990	21 June 1991	Janata Dal		Chandra Shekhar
P Chidambaram (MoS, Independent Charge) (Commerce)	21 June 1991	9 July 1992	Indian National Congress		P. V. Narasimha Rao
P. V. Narasimha Rao	9 July 1992	18 January 1993
Pranab Mukherjee (Commerce)^[11]	January 1993	February 1995
P Chidambaram (MoS, Independent Charge) (Commerce)	10 February 1995	3 April 1996
P. V. Narasimha Rao	3 April 1996	15 May 1996
Atal Bihari Vajpayee	16 May 1996	01 June 1996	Bharatiya Janata Party		Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Devendra Prasad Yadav (Commerce)	1 June 1996	29 June 1996	Janata Dal (United Front)		H. D. Dewe Gowda
Bolla Bulli Ramaiah (Commerce)	29 June 1996	19 March 1998	Telugu Desam Party (United Front)		H. D. Dewe Gowda Inder Kumar Gujral
Ramakrishna Hegde (Commerce)^[12]^[13]	19 March 1998	13 October 1999	Lok Shakti (National Democratic Alliance)	width="4px" bgcolor="Template:Lok Shakti/meta/color" rowspan=1\|	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Murasoli Maran (Commerce and Industry)	13 October 1999	9 November 2002	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (National Democratic Alliance)
Arun Shourie (Commerce and Industry)	9 November 2002	29 January 2003	Bharatiya Janata Party (National Democratic Alliance)
Arun Jaitley (Commerce and Industry)	29 January 2003	22 May 2004	Bharatiya Janata Party (National Democratic Alliance)
Kamal Nath (Commerce and Industry)^[14]	23 May 2004	22 May 2009	Indian National Congress (United Progressive Alliance)		Manmohan Singh
Anand Sharma (Commerce and Industry)^[15]	28 May 2009	26 May 2014	Indian National Congress (United Progressive Alliance)		Manmohan Singh
Nirmala Sitharaman (Commerce and Industry) (MoS, Independent Charge)	26 May 2014	3 September 2017	Bharatiya Janata Party (National Democratic Alliance)		Narendra Modi
Suresh Prabhu (Commerce and Industry)	3 September 2017	30 May 2019
Piyush Goyal (Commerce and Industry)	31 May 2019	Incumbent

List of Ministers of State[edit]

Ministers of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry
Minister of state	Portrait	Political party	Term		Days
C. R. Chaudhary		Bharatiya Janata Party (National Democratic Alliance)	3 September 2017	30 May 2019	634 days
Hardeep Singh Puri			30 May 2019	7 July 2021	769 days
Som Parkash			30 May 2019	Incumbent	2023 days
Anupriya Patel	File:Health minister anupriya patel.jpg	Apna Dal (Sonelal) (National Democratic Alliance)	7 July 2021	Incumbent	1254 days

Department of Commerce[edit]

The department is entrusted with formulating and implementing the foreign trade policy and responsibilities relating to multilateral and bilateral commercial relations, state trading, export promotion measures, and development and regulation of certain export oriented industries and commodities.

In order for the smooth functioning, the Department is divided into eight divisions:^[16]

Administrative and General Division

Ministry of Commerce and Industries India
Finance Division
Economic Division
Trade Policy Division
Foreign Trade Territorial Division
State Trading & Infrastructure Division
Supply Division
Plantation Division

The subjects under the administrative control of the Department include:^[17]

International trade
Foreign Trade
State trading
Management of Indian Trade Services
Special Economic Zones

Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade[edit]

This department was established in the year 1995, and in the year 2000 Department of Industrial Development was merged with it. This department is responsible for formulation and implementation of promotional and developmental measures for growth of the industrial sector, keeping in view the national priorities and socio-economic objectives. While individual administrative ministries look after the production, distribution, development and planning aspects of specific industries allocated to them, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade is responsible for the overall Industrial Policy. It is also responsible for facilitating and increasing the FDI flows to the country. It is also responsible to calculate WPI (I.e. Wholesale Price Index).

The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade is also responsible for intellectual property rights relating to patents, designs, trademarks, copyrights and geographical indication of goods and oversees the initiative relating to their promotion and protection.

References[edit]

↑ India, Welcome to department of commerce, Government of. "Welcome to department of commerce, Government of India". commerce.gov.in.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
↑ Minister of State (Independent Charge)
↑ "List of ministers in Narendra Modi's government". The Economic Times. 27 May 2014. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 Arun Nehru was Minister of Commerce, while Ajit Singh was in charge of Industry
↑ "Fifteenth Lok Sabha, Members Bioprofile :Singh,Shri Ajit". loksabha.nic.in. National Informatics Centre. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 6 July 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
↑ "Thirteenth Lok Sabha, Members Bioprofile : Patil,Shri Shivraj V." loksabha.nic.in. National Informatics Centre. Archived from the original on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
↑ "Tenth Lok Sabha, Members Bioprofile : SINGH, SHRI VISHWANATH PRATAP". loksabha.nic.in. National Informatics Centre. Archived from the original on 15 October 2014. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
↑ "Tenth Lok Sabha, Members Bioprofile : SINGH, SHRI VISHWANATH PRATAP". loksabha.nic.in. National Informatics Centre. Archived from the original on 15 October 2014. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
↑ "9th Lok Sabha, Members Bioprofile : NEHRU, SHRI ARUN KUMAR". loksabha.nic.in. National Informatics Centre. Archived from the original on 17 October 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
↑ "Fifteenth Lok Sabha, Members Bioprofile : Mukherjee,Shri Pranab". loksabha.nic.in. National Informatics Centre. Archived from the original on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
↑ "Rajya Sabha Members Biographical Sketches 1952 - 2003: H" (PDF). pp. 3–4. Retrieved 1 September 2014.
↑ Minister of Commerce
↑ "Sixteenth Lok Sabha Members Bioprofile : Kamal Nath,Shri". loksabha.nic.in. National Informatics Centre. Archived from the original on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
↑ "Webpage of Shri Anand Sharma, Member of Parliament (RAJYA SABHA)". rajyasabha.nic.in. National Informatics Centre. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
↑ "Organisational Set-up and Functions". Department of Commerce, Government of India. Archived from the original on 19 October 2008. Retrieved 6 November 2008.
↑ "Subjects under Administrative Control". Department of Commerce, Government of India. Archived from the original on 19 December 2008. Retrieved 6 November 2008.

External links[edit]

[1] India, Welcome to department of commerce, Government of. "Welcome to department of commerce, Government of India". commerce.gov.in.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[ReferenceA-2] Minister of State (Independent Charge)

[3] "List of ministers in Narendra Modi's government". The Economic Times. 27 May 2014. Retrieved 28 June 2014.

[iandc-4] 4.0 ^4.1 Arun Nehru was Minister of Commerce, while Ajit Singh was in charge of Industry

[5] "Fifteenth Lok Sabha, Members Bioprofile :Singh,Shri Ajit". loksabha.nic.in. National Informatics Centre. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2014.

[164.100.47.132-6] 6.0 ^6.1 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 6 July 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[7] "Thirteenth Lok Sabha, Members Bioprofile : Patil,Shri Shivraj V." loksabha.nic.in. National Informatics Centre. Archived from the original on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 29 August 2014.

[8] "Tenth Lok Sabha, Members Bioprofile : SINGH, SHRI VISHWANATH PRATAP". loksabha.nic.in. National Informatics Centre. Archived from the original on 15 October 2014. Retrieved 29 August 2014.

[9] "Tenth Lok Sabha, Members Bioprofile : SINGH, SHRI VISHWANATH PRATAP". loksabha.nic.in. National Informatics Centre. Archived from the original on 15 October 2014. Retrieved 29 August 2014.

[10] "9th Lok Sabha, Members Bioprofile : NEHRU, SHRI ARUN KUMAR". loksabha.nic.in. National Informatics Centre. Archived from the original on 17 October 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2014.

[11] "Fifteenth Lok Sabha, Members Bioprofile : Mukherjee,Shri Pranab". loksabha.nic.in. National Informatics Centre. Archived from the original on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 29 August 2014.

[rajya-12] "Rajya Sabha Members Biographical Sketches 1952 - 2003: H" (PDF). pp. 3–4. Retrieved 1 September 2014.

[13] Minister of Commerce

[14] "Sixteenth Lok Sabha Members Bioprofile : Kamal Nath,Shri". loksabha.nic.in. National Informatics Centre. Archived from the original on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 29 August 2014.

[15] "Webpage of Shri Anand Sharma, Member of Parliament (RAJYA SABHA)". rajyasabha.nic.in. National Informatics Centre. Retrieved 29 August 2014.

[16] "Organisational Set-up and Functions". Department of Commerce, Government of India. Archived from the original on 19 October 2008. Retrieved 6 November 2008.

[17] "Subjects under Administrative Control". Department of Commerce, Government of India. Archived from the original on 19 December 2008. Retrieved 6 November 2008.

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