Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs

Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs
आवासन और शहरी कार्य मंत्री Aavaasan aur Shahree Karya Mantrī
Emblem of India
Incumbent Hardeep Singh Puri since 3 September 2017 (2017-09-03)
Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
Member of	Cabinet of India
Reports to	Prime Minister of India Parliament of India
Appointer	President of India on the recommendation of the Prime Minister of India
Formation	1952 (1952) (as Ministry of Works, Housing and Supply) 6 July 2017 (2017-07-06) (current form)
First holder	Swaran Singh (as Minister of Works, Housing and Supply) M. Venkaiah Naidu (as Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs)

The Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs (Hindi: आवासन और शहरी कार्य मंत्री) is the head of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs of the Government of India since the ministry's formation on 6 July 2017 and is a member of the union council of ministers. The minister is responsible for the execution, formulation and administration of the rules and regulations and laws relating to the housing and urban development in India.

The ministry is currently headed by Hardeep Singh Puri who has been the minister since 3 September 2017. Puri served as a Minister of State (Independent Charge) from 2017 until 2021 and was promoted as a cabinet minister in July 2021. The cabinet minister is often assisted by a minister of state and formerly by a deputy minister. Kaushal Kishore is the current Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs.

History of office

The ministry came into existence in 1952 as the "Ministry of Works, Housing and Supply" which was formed as a result of the reformation of the Ministry of Works, Production and Supply. Swaran Singh was appointed as the inaugural Minister of Works, Housing and Supply and served from 1952 until 1957. In 1962, the Department of Supply was separated from the ministry and the Ministry of Rehabilitation was merged with the Ministry of Works and Supply to form the "Ministry of Works, Housing and Rehabilitation".

In 1964, the ministry was renamed as "Ministry of Works and Housing" after the Department of Rehabilitation was separated from it and further renamed in 1966 as "Ministry of Works, Housing and Urban Development" and in 1971 as "Ministry of Works and Housing". In 1977, the ministry was merged with Ministry of Supply and Rehabilitation to form the "Ministry of Works, Housing, Supply and Rehabilitation". In 1980, the ministry was renamed back as "Ministry of Works and Housing".

In 1985, with rapidly growing urban issues and to give more importance to those issues, the ministry was renamed as the "Ministry of Urban Development" and further renamed in 1995 as the "Ministry of Urban Affairs and Employment" with two constituent departments, namely, the Department of Urban Employment and Poverty Alleviation and the Department of Urban Employment.

The two departments were merged together in 1999 as the "Ministry of Urban Development" and bifurcated only months later into the "Ministry of Urban Development" and the "Urban Employment and Poverty Alleviation". The two independent ministries were re-united on 27 May 2000 as the "Ministry of Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation" with Jagmohan serving as the first office-holder.

Upon the formation of the First Manmohan Singh ministry on 22 May 2004, the ministry was again bifurcated. Two separate ministries were formed, one concerned with urban development and was named as "Ministry of Urban Development" and Ghulam Nabi Azad was appointed as the Minister of Urban Development, while the other ministry was concerned with urban employment and poverty issues and was named as "Ministry of Urban Employment and Poverty Alleviation" and Kumari Selja was appointed as the minister. The Ministry of Urban Employment and Poverty Alleviation was renamed as the "Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation" in 2006 and existed until 2017.

On 6 July 2017, the two independent ministries were re-united as the "Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs" and has since existed in this form. Venkaiah Naidu who served as the Minister in both the ministries prior to their merger was appointed as the first minister thereupon. He resigned the following month after being nominated as a candidate for the 2017 vice presidential election and was elected as the Vice President in August 2017. Upon his resignation, Rural Development minister Narendra Singh Tomar briefly officiated in the ministry until the appointment of Hardeep Singh Puri in September 2017. Puri has since then served as the Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs and is the longest serving minister in the ministry.

Titles of office

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has undergone several minor and major organizational and nominal changes since its establishment as the "Ministry of Works, Housing and Supply" in 1952.

• 1952–1962: Minister of Works, Housing and Supply
• 1962–1964: Minister of Works, Housing and Rehabilitation
• 1964–1966: Minister of Works and Housing
• 1966–1971: Minister of Works, Housing and Urban Development
• 1971–1977: Minister of Works and Housing
• 1977–1980: Minister of Works, Housing, Supply and Rehabilitation
• 1980–1985: Minister of Works and Housing
• 1985–1995: Minister of Urban Development
• 1995–1999: Minister of Urban Affairs and Employment
• 1999–2000: Minister of Urban Development
• 2000–2004: Minister of Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation
• 2004–2017: Minister of Urban Development
• 2017–present: Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs

Cabinet Ministers

• Key: ^† Died in office

Portrait		Minister (Birth-Death) Constituency	Term of office			Political party	Ministry	Prime Minister
			From	To	Period
Minister of Works, Housing and Supply
	File:Sardar Swaran Singh.jpg	Swaran Singh (1907–1994) MP for Punjab (Rajya Sabha)	13 May 1952	17 April 1957	4 years, 339 days	Indian National Congress	Nehru II	Jawaharlal Nehru
		K. Chengalaraya Reddy (1902–1976) MP for Kolar	17 April 1957	5 April 1961	3 years, 353 days		Nehru III
		Bezawada Gopala Reddy (1907–1997) MP for Kavali (MoS)	5 April 1961	10 April 1962	1 year, 5 days
		Mehr Chand Khanna (1897–1970) MP for New Delhi	10 April 1962	15 November 1962	219 days		Nehru IV
Minister of Works, Housing and Rehabilitation
		Mehr Chand Khanna (1897–1970) MP for New Delhi	15 November 1962	16 April 1964	1 year, 153 days	Indian National Congress	Nehru IV	Jawaharlal Nehru
Minister of Works and Housing
		Mehr Chand Khanna (1897–1970) MP for New Delhi	16 April 1964	27 May 1964	1 year, 283 days	Indian National Congress	Nehru IV	Jawaharlal Nehru
			27 May 1964	9 June 1964			Nanda I	Gulzarilal Nanda (Acting)
			9 June 1964	11 January 1966			Shastri	Lal Bahadur Shastri
			11 January 1966	24 January 1966			Nanda II	Gulzarilal Nanda (Acting)
Minister of Works, Housing and Urban Development
		Mehr Chand Khanna (1897–1970) MP for New Delhi	24 January 1966	13 March 1967	1 year, 48 days	Indian National Congress	Indira I	Indira Gandhi
		Jagannath Rao (1909–?) MP for Chatrapur (MoS)	13 March 1967	14 November 1967	246 days
		Satya Narayan Sinha (1900–1983) MP for Darbhanga	14 November 1967	14 February 1969	1 year, 92 days
		Kodardas Kalidas Shah (1908–1986) MP for Gujarat	14 February 1969	18 March 1971	2 years, 32 days
Minister of Works and Housing
		Inder Kumar Gujral (1919–2012) MP for Punjab (Rajya Sabha) (MoS)	18 March 1971	2 May 1971	45 days	Indian National Congress	Indira II	Indira Gandhi
		Uma Shankar Dikshit (1901–1991) MP for Uttar Pradesh (Rajya Sabha)	2 May 1971	5 February 1973	1 year, 279 days
		Bhola Paswan Shastri (1914–1984) MP for Bihar (Rajya Sabha)	5 February 1973	10 October 1974	1 year, 247 days
		Kotha Raghuramaiah (1912–1979) MP for Guntur	10 October 1974	23 December 1976	2 years, 74 days
		Hitendra Kanaiyalal Desai (1915–1993) Unelected	23 December 1976	24 March 1977	91 days
Minister of Works, Housing, Supply and Rehabilitation
		Sikander Bakht (1918–2004) MP for Chandni Chowk	24 March 1977	28 July 1979	2 years, 126 days	Janata Party	Desai	Morarji Desai
		Ram Kinkar (1922–2003) MP for Barabanki	28 July 1979	14 January 1980	170 days	Janata Party (Secular)	Charan	Charan Singh
Minister of Works and Housing
		Prakash Chandra Sethi (1919–1996) MP for Indore	14 January 1980	19 October 1980	279 days	Indian National Congress	Indira III	Indira Gandhi
	File:BhishmaNarainSingh19.jpg	Bhishma Narain Singh (1933–2018) MP for Bihar (Rajya Sabha)	19 October 1980	29 January 1983	2 years, 102 days
		Buta Singh (1934–2021) MP for Ropar	29 January 1983	31 October 1984	1 year, 337 days
			4 November 1984	31 December 1984			Rajiv I	Rajiv Gandhi
		Abdul Ghafoor (1918–2004) MP for Siwan	31 December 1984	25 September 1985	268 days		Rajiv II
Minister of Urban Development
		Abdul Ghafoor (1918–2004) MP for Siwan	25 September 1985	22 October 1986	1 year, 27 days	Indian National Congress	Rajiv II	Rajiv Gandhi
		Mohsina Kidwai (born 1932) MP for Meerut	22 October 1986	2 December 1989	3 years, 41 days
		Murasoli Maran (1934–2003) MP for Chennai South	2 December 1989	10 November 1990	343 days	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	Vishwanath	V. P. Singh
		Daulat Ram Saran (1924–2011) MP for Churu	21 November 1990	21 June 1991	212 days	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)	Chandra Shekhar	Chandra Shekhar
		Sheila Kaul (1915–2015) MP for Raebareli	21 June 1991	3 May 1995	3 years, 316 days	Indian National Congress	Rao	P. V. Narasimha Rao
Minister of Urban Affairs and Employment
		Sheila Kaul (1915–2015) MP for Raebareli	3 May 1995	10 September 1995	130 days	Indian National Congress	Rao	P. V. Narasimha Rao
		P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004) MP for Nandyal (Prime Minister)	10 September 1995	15 September 1995	5 days
		R. K. Dhawan (1937–2018) MP for Bihar (Rajya Sabha) (MoS, I/C)	15 September 1995	21 February 1996	159 days
		P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004) MP for Nandyal (Prime Minister)	21 February 1996	21 May 1996	90 days
		Sikander Bakht (1918–2004) MP for Madhya Pradesh (Rajya Sabha)	16 May 1996	1 June 1996	16 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Vajpayee I	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
		M. Arunachalam (1944–2004) MP for Tenkasi	1 June 1996	29 June 1996	28 days	Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar)	Deve Gowda	H. D. Deve Gowda
		H. D. Deve Gowda (born 1933) MP for Karnataka (Rajya Sabha) (Prime Minister)	29 June 1996	21 April 1997	296 days	Janata Dal
		Inder Kumar Gujral (1919–2012) MP for Bihar (Rajya Sabha) (Prime Minister)	21 April 1997	9 June 1997	49 days		Gujral	Inder Kumar Gujral
		Ummareddy Venkateswarlu (born 1935) MP for Bapatla (MoS, I/C)	9 June 1997	19 March 1998	283 days	Telugu Desam Party
		Ram Jethmalani (1923–2019) MP for Maharashtra	19 March 1998	8 June 1999	1 year, 81 days	Independent	Vajpayee II	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
		Jagmohan (1927–2021) MP for New Delhi	8 June 1999	13 October 1999	127 days	Bharatiya Janata Party
Minister of Urban Development
		Jagmohan (1927–2021) MP for New Delhi	13 October 1999	22 November 1999	40 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Vajpayee III	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
			26 November 1999	27 May 2000	183 days
Minister of Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation
		Jagmohan (1927–2021) MP for New Delhi	27 May 2000	1 September 2001	1 year, 97 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Vajpayee III	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
		Ananth Kumar (1959–2018) MP for Bangalore South	1 September 2001	12 July 2003	1 year, 314 days
		Major General (Retd.) B. C. Khanduri AVSM (born 1934) MP for Garhwal	12 July 2003	8 September 2003	58 days
		Bandaru Dattatreya (born 1947) MP for Secunderabad (MoS, I/C)	8 September 2003	22 May 2004	257 days
Minister of Urban Development
		Ghulam Nabi Azad (born 1949) MP for Jammu and Kashmir (Rajya Sabha)	23 May 2004	1 November 2005	1 year, 162 days	Indian National Congress	Manmohan I	Manmohan Singh
		Manmohan Singh (born 1932) MP for Assam (Rajya Sabha) (Prime Minister)	1 November 2005	18 November 2005	17 days
		S. Jaipal Reddy (1942–2019) MP for Miryalguda (until 2009) MP for Chevella (from 2009)	18 November 2005	22 May 2009	3 years, 185 days
			28 May 2009	19 January 2011	1 year, 236 days		Manmohan II
		Kamal Nath (born 1946) MP for Chhindwara	19 January 2011	26 May 2014	3 years, 127 days
		M. Venkaiah Naidu (born 1949) MP for Karnataka (Rajya Sabha), till 2016 MP for Rajasthan (Rajya Sabha), from 2016	26 May 2014	6 July 2017	3 years, 41 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Modi I	Narendra Modi
Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs
		M. Venkaiah Naidu (born 1949) MP for Rajasthan (Rajya Sabha)	6 July 2017	17 July 2017	11 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Modi I	Narendra Modi
		Narendra Singh Tomar (born 1957) MP for Gwalior	18 July 2017	3 September 2017	47 days
		Hardeep Singh Puri (born 1952) MP for Uttar Pradesh (Rajya Sabha) (MoS, I/C until 7 July 2021)	3 September 2017	30 May 2019	9 years, 192 days
			31 May 2019	Incumbent			Modi II

Ministers of State

Portrait		Minister (Birth-Death) Constituency	Term of office			Political party	Ministry	Prime Minister
			From	To	Period
Minister of State for Works, Housing and Urban Development
		Jagannath Rao (1909–?) MP for Chatrapur	13 March 1967	14 February 1969	1 year, 338 days	Indian National Congress	Indira I	Indira Gandhi
		Sripati Chandrasekhar (1918–2001) MP for Tamil Nadu	14 November 1967	26 June 1970	2 years, 224 days
		Bayya Suryanarayana Murthy (1906–1979) MP for Kakinada	18 February 1969	13 March 1971	2 years, 23 days
		Parimal Ghosh (1917–1985) MP for Ghatal	26 June 1970	18 March 1971	265 days
		Inder Kumar Gujral (1919–2012) MP for Punjab (Rajya Sabha)	18 March 1971	2 May 1971	45 days		Indira II
Minister of State for Works and Housing
		Inder Kumar Gujral (1919–2012) MP for Punjab (Rajya Sabha)	2 May 1971	22 July 1972	1 year, 81 days	Indian National Congress	Indira II	Indira Gandhi
		D. P. Chattopadhyaya (1933–2022) MP for West Bengal (Rajya Sabha)	2 August 1972	5 February 1973	187 days
		Om Mehta (1927–1995) MP for Jammu and Kashmir (Rajya Sabha)	5 February 1973	10 October 1974	1 year, 247 days
		Mohan Dharia (1925–2013) MP for Pune	10 October 1974	2 March 1975	143 days
		H. K. L. Bhagat (1921–2005) MP for East Delhi	1 December 1975	24 March 1977	1 year, 113 days
Minister of State for Works, Housing, Supply and Rehabilitation
		Ram Kinkar (1922–2003) MP for Barabanki	14 August 1977	11 July 1978	331 days	Janata Party	Desai	Morarji Desai
			26 January 1979	15 July 1979	170 days
Minister of State for Works and Housing
		H. K. L. Bhagat (1921–2005) MP for East Delhi	2 September 1982	14 February 1983	165 days	Indian National Congress	Indira III	Indira Gandhi
Minister of State for Urban Development
		Dalbir Singh MP for Shahdol	25 September 1985	2 December 1989	4 years, 68 days	Indian National Congress	Rajiv II	Rajiv Gandhi
		M. Arunachalam (1944–2004) MP for Tenkasi	21 June 1991	18 January 1993	1 year, 211 days		Rao	P. V. Narasimha Rao
		Prem Khandu Thungan (born 1946) MP for Arunachal West	18 January 1993	13 September 1995	2 years, 238 days
Minister of State for Urban Affairs and Employment
		S. S. Ahluwalia (born 1951) MP for Bihar (Rajya Sabha) (Urban Employment and Poverty Alleviation)	15 September 1995	8 March 1996	244 days	Indian National Congress	Rao	P. V. Narasimha Rao
		S. S. Ahluwalia (born 1951) MP for Bihar (Rajya Sabha)	8 March 1996	16 May 1996
		Ummareddy Venkateswarlu (born 1935) MP for Bapatla	29 June 1996	21 April 1997	345 days	Telugu Desam Party	Deve Gowda	H. D. Deve Gowda
			21 April 1997	9 June 1997			Gujral	Inder Kumar Gujral
		M. P. Veerendra Kumar (1936–2020) MP for Kozhikode	26 May 1997	2 July 1997	37 days	Inder Kumar Gujral
		Bandaru Dattatreya (born 1947) MP for Secunderabad	20 March 1998	13 October 1999	1 year, 207 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Vajpayee II	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Minister of State for Urban Development
		Bandaru Dattatreya (born 1947) MP for Secunderabad	13 October 1999	27 May 2000	227 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Vajpayee III	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Minister of State for Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation
		Bandaru Dattatreya (born 1947) MP for Secunderabad	27 May 2000	1 July 2002	2 years, 35 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Vajpayee III	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
		O. Rajagopal (born 1929) MP for Madhya Pradesh (Rajya Sabha)	1 July 2002	29 January 2003	212 days
		Pon Radhakrishnan (born 1952) MP for Kanniyakumari	29 January 2003	8 September 2003	222 days
Minister of State for Urban Development
		Ajay Maken (born 1964) MP for New Delhi	29 January 2006	22 May 2009	3 years, 113 days	Indian National Congress	Manmohan I	Manmohan Singh
	File:Shri Sougata Roy official portrait, 2019.jpg	Saugata Roy (born 1946) MP for Dum Dum	29 May 2009	22 September 2012	3 years, 116 days	All India Trinamool Congress	Manmohan II
		Deepa Dasmunsi (born 1960) MP for Raiganj	28 October 2012	26 May 2014	1 year, 210 days	Indian National Congress
		Babul Supriyo (born 1970) MP for Asansol	9 November 2014	12 July 2016	1 year, 246 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Modi I	Narendra Modi
		Rao Inderjit Singh (born 1951) MP for Gurgaon	5 July 2016	6 July 2017	1 year, 1 day
Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs
		Rao Inderjit Singh (born 1951) MP for Gurgaon	6 July 2017	3 September 2017	59 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Modi I	Narendra Modi
	File:Kaushal Kishore official portrait 2019.jpg	Kaushal Kishore (born 1960) MP for Mohanlalganj	7 July 2021	Incumbent	5 years, 72 days		Modi II

Deputy Ministers

Portrait		Minister (Birth-Death) Constituency	Term of office			Political party	Ministry	Prime Minister
			From	To	Period
Deputy Minister of Works, Housing and Supply
		Surendranath Buragohain MP for Sibsagar North Lakhimpur	13 May 1952	4 October 1953	1 year, 144 days	Indian National Congress	Nehru II	Jawaharlal Nehru
		Anil Kumar Chanda (1906–1976) MP for Birbhum	1 May 1957	10 April 1962	4 years, 344 days		Nehru III
		Purnendu Sekhar Naskar (1921–?) MP for Mathurapur	16 April 1962	5 December 1962	233 days		Nehru IV
		Jagannath Rao (1909–?) MP for Chatrapur	8 May 1962	26 November 1962	202 days
Deputy Minister of Works, Housing and Rehabilitation
		Purnendu Sekhar Naskar (1921–?) MP for Mathurapur	5 December 1962	16 April 1964	1 year, 133 days	Indian National Congress	Nehru IV	Jawaharlal Nehru
Deputy Minister of Works, Housing and Urban Development
		B. C. Bhagawati MP for Assam (Rajya Sabha)	24 January 1966	13 March 1967	1 year, 48 days	Indian National Congress	Indira I	Indira Gandhi
		Iqbal Singh (1923–1988) MP for Fazilka	18 March 1967	14 February 1969	1 year, 333 days
		Bayya Suryanarayana Murthy (1906–1979) MP for Kakinada	14 November 1967	18 February 1969	1 year, 96 days
Deputy Minister of Works and Housing
		Chaudhary Dalbir Singh (1926–1987) MP for Sirsa	10 October 1974	1 December 1975	1 year, 52 days	Indian National Congress	Indira II	Indira Gandhi
		Mohammed Usman Arif (1923–1995) MP for Rajasthan (Rajya Sabha)	8 June 1980	15 January 1982	1 year, 221 days		Indira III
		Brajamohan Mohanty (1924–1999) MP for Puri	15 January 1982	29 January 1983	1 year, 14 days
		Mallikarjun Goud (1941–2002) MP for Mahabubnagar	15 January 1982	31 October 1984	2 years, 290 days
		Mohammed Usman Arif (1923–1995) MP for Rajasthan (Rajya Sabha)	14 February 1983	31 October 1984	1 year, 260 days
		Mallikarjun Goud (1941–2002) MP for Mahabubnagar	4 November 1984	31 December 1984	57 days		Rajiv I	Rajiv Gandhi
		Mohammed Usman Arif (1923–1995) MP for Rajasthan (Rajya Sabha)	4 November 1984	31 December 1984	57 days

External links

• Ministry website