Minister of Finance (India)
Minister of Finance Vitt Mantrī | |
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Ministry of Finance | |
Style | The Honourable |
Abbreviation | FM |
Member of | Cabinet Cabinet Committee on Security |
Appointer | President on the advice of the Prime Minister |
Inaugural holder | R. K. Shanmukham Chetty |
Formation | 15 August 1947 |
The Minister of Finance (Vitt Mantrī ) (or simply, the Finance Minister, short form FM) is the head of the Ministry of Finance of the Government of India. One of the senior-most offices in the Union Cabinet, the finance minister is responsible for the fiscal policy of the government. As part of this, a key duty of the Finance Minister is to present the annual Union Budget in Parliament, which details the government's plan for taxation and spending in the coming financial year. Through the Budget, the finance minister also outlines the allocations to different ministries and departments. Occasionally, s/he is assisted by the Minister of State for Finance and the lower-ranked Deputy Minister of Finance.
There have been a number of Finance Ministers who went on to become the Prime Minister Morarji Desai, Charan Singh, Vishwanath Pratap Singh and Manmohan Singh and also to serve as the President like R.Venkataraman and Pranab Mukherjee. Several other Prime Ministers have since held the additional charge of finance ministry.
The current Finance Minister of India is Nirmala Sitharaman.
Lists of Finance Ministers[edit]
№ | Picture | Name | Term of office | Length | Political party (Alliance) |
Prime Minister | ||
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R. K. Shanmukham Chetty | 15 August 1947[1] | 17 August 1948 | 2 years, 2 days | Indian National Congress | Jawaharlal Nehru | |
2 | ![]() |
Jawaharlal Nehru | 5 Feb 1949 | 5 April 1949 | 36 days | |||
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John Mathai | 22 September 1949 | 1 June 1950 | 252 days | |||
4 | ![]() |
C. D. Deshmukh | 1 June 1950[2] | 24 July 1956 | 6 years, 53 days | |||
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Jawaharlal Nehru | 24 July 1956 | 30 August 1956 | 37 days | |||
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T. T. Krishnamachari | 30 August 1956 | 14 February 1958 | 1 year, 168 days | |||
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Jawaharlal Nehru | 14 February 1958 | 22 March 1958 | 36 days | |||
6 | ![]() |
Morarji Desai | 23 March 1958 | 31 August 1963 | 5 years, 161 days | |||
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T. T. Krishnamachari | 31 August 1963 | 31 December 1965 | 2 years, 122 days | Jawaharlal Nehru Gulzarilal Nanda Lal Bahadur Shastri | ||
7 | ![]() |
Sachindra Chaudhuri | 1 January 1966 | 12 March 1967 | 1 year, 70 days | Lal Bahadur Shastri Indira Gandhi | ||
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Morarji Desai | 13 March 1967 | 16 July 1969 | 2 years, 125 days | Indira Gandhi | ||
8 | ![]() |
Indira Gandhi | 16 July 1969 | 27 June 1970 | 346 days | |||
9 | ![]() |
Yashwantrao Chavan | 27 June 1970 | 10 October 1974 | 4 years, 105 days | |||
10 | ![]() |
Chidambaram Subramaniam | 10 October 1974 | 24 March 1977 | 2 years, 165 days | |||
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Morarji Desai | 24 March 1977 | 26 March 1977 | 2 days | Janata Party | Morarji Desai | |
11 | Hirubhai M. Patel | 26 March 1977 | 24 January 1979 | 1 year, 304 days | ||||
12 | ![]() |
Charan Singh | 24 January 1979 | 16 July 1979 | 173 days | |||
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Morarji Desai | 16 July 1979 | 28 July 1979 | 12 days | |||
13 | ![]() |
Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna | 28 July 1979 | 19 October 1979 | 83 days | Janata Party (Secular) | Charan Singh | |
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Charan Singh | 19 October 1979 | 14 January 1980 | 87 days | |||
14 | ![]() |
R. Venkataraman | 14 January 1980 | 15 January 1982 | 2 years, 1 day | Indian National Congress | Indira Gandhi | |
15 | ![]() |
Pranab Mukherjee | 15 January 1982 | 31 December 1984 | 2 years, 351 days | |||
16 | ![]() |
V. P. Singh | 31 December 1984 | 24 January 1987 | 2 years, 24 days | Rajiv Gandhi | ||
17 | ![]() |
Rajiv Gandhi | 24 January 1987 | 25 July 1987 | 182 days | |||
18 | ![]() |
N. D. Tiwari | 25 July 1987 | 25 June 1988 | 336 days | |||
19 | ![]() |
Shankarrao Chavan | 25 June 1988 | 2 December 1989 | 1 year, 160 days | |||
20 | Madhu Dandavate | 6 December 1989 | 10 November 1990 | 343 days | Janata Dal | V. P. Singh | ||
21 | ![]() |
Yashwant Sinha | 10 November 1990 | 21 June 1991 | 223 days | Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) | Chandra Shekhar | |
22 | ![]() |
Manmohan Singh | 21 June 1991 | 16 May 1996 | 4 years, 330 days | Indian National Congress | Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao | |
23 | ![]() |
Jaswant Singh | 16 May 1996 | 1 June 1996 | 16 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | |
24 | ![]() |
P. Chidambaram | 1 June 1996 | 21 April 1997 | 324 days | Tamil Maanila Congress | H. D. Deve Gowda | |
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I. K. Gujral | 21 April 1997 | 1 May 1997 | 10 days | Janata Dal | I. K. Gujral | |
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P. Chidambaram | 1 May 1997 | 19 March 1998 | 322 days | Tamil Maanila Congress | ||
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Yashwant Sinha | 19 March 1998 | 1 July 2002 | 4 years, 104 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | |
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Jaswant Singh | 1 July 2002 | 22 May 2004 | 1 year, 326 days | |||
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P. Chidambaram | 22 May 2004 | 30 November 2008 | 4 years, 192 days | Indian National Congress | Manmohan Singh | |
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Manmohan Singh | 30 November 2008 | 24 January 2009 | 55 days | |||
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Pranab Mukherjee | 24 January 2009 | 26 June 2012 | 3 years, 154 days | |||
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Manmohan Singh | 26 June 2012 | 31 July 2012 | 35 days | |||
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P. Chidambaram | 31 July 2012 | 26 May 2014 | 1 year, 299 days | |||
26 | ![]() |
Arun Jaitley | 26 May 2014 | 14 May 2018 | 3 years, 353 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Narendra Modi | |
27 | ![]() |
Piyush Goyal |
14 May 2018 | 22 August 2018 | 100 days | |||
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Arun Jaitley | 23 August 2018 | 23 January 2019 | 153 days | |||
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Piyush Goyal |
23 January 2019 | 15 February 2019 | 23 days | |||
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Arun Jaitley | 16 February 2019 | 30 May 2019 | 103 days | |||
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Nirmala Sitharaman | 30 May 2019 | Incumbent | 5 years, 311 days |
List of Ministers of State[edit]
Minister of state | Portrait | Political party | Term | Years | ||
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Nirmala Sitharaman | ![]() |
Bharatiya Janata Party | 26 May 2014 | 9 November 2014 | 167 days | |
Jayant Sinha | 9 November 2014 | 5 July 2016 | 1 year, 239 days | |||
Santosh Gangwar | ![]() |
5 July 2016 | 3 September 2017 | 1 year, 60 days | ||
Arjun Ram Meghwal | ![]() |
5 July 2016 | 3 September 2017 | 1 year, 60 days | ||
Pon Radhakrishnan | ![]() |
3 September 2017 | 30 May 2019 | 1 year, 269 days | ||
Shiv Pratap Shukla | 3 September 2017 | 30 May 2019 | 1 year, 269 days | |||
Anurag Thakur | ![]() |
30 May 2019 | 7 July 2021 | 2 years, 38 days | ||
Bhagwat Karad | 7 July 2021 | Incumbent | 3 years, 273 days | |||
Pankaj Choudhary | 7 July 2021 | Incumbent | 3 years, 273 days |
References[edit]
- ↑ "COUNCIL OF MINISTERS" (PDF).
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 22 September 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
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