Ministry of Civil Aviation (India)

Union Ministry of Civil Aviation
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Agency overview
Jurisdiction	Republic of India
Headquarters	Ministry of Civil Aviation; Rajiv Gandhi Bhawan; New Delhi
Annual budget	₹6,602.86 crore (US$760 million) (2018–19 est.)
Ministers responsible	Jyotiraditya Scindia, Cabinet Minister; V.K. Singh, Minister of State;
Agency executives	• Pradeep Singh Kharola, IAS, Civil Aviation Secretary; • Vimalendra Anand Patwardhan, Joint Secretary & Financial Advisor; • Vandana Aggarwal, Economic Advisor; • Narendra Singh, Under Secretary (NS); • Harprit K Singh, Financial Controller; • Ajit Saha, Technical Director; • Rajeev Jain, Additional Diretor General (M&C);
Website	civilaviation.gov.in

The Ministry of Civil Aviation of Government of India is the nodal Ministry responsible for the formulation of national policies and programmes for development and regulation of Civil Aviation and for devising and implementing schemes for the orderly growth and expansion of civil air transport. Its functions also extend to overseeing airport facilities, air traffic services and carriage of passengers and goods by air. The Ministry also administers implementation of the Aircraft Act, 1934, Aircraft Rules, 1937 and is administratively responsible for the Commission of Railways Safety.

Composition of the Ministry[edit]

The ministry is under the charge of Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia .

The Secretary, an IAS officer, is administrative the head of the Ministry and is assisted by one Additional Secretary & Financial Adviser, three Joint Secretaries, seven officers of the level of Director / Deputy Secretary / Financial Controller and ten officers of the level of Under Secretary. It is located at Rajiv Gandhi Bhavan, Safdarjung Airport, New Delhi.^[2]

Structure[edit]

The Ministry has under its purview the following organisations:

Directorates[edit]

Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA)^[3]

Attached offices[edit]

Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS)^[3]
Commission of Railway Safety^[4]
- The commission is the rail safety authority in India, as directed by the 1989 Railways Act. The agency investigates rail accidents.^[4]
Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB)

Autonomous bodies[edit]

Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi (IGRUA)^[3]

Statutory bodies[edit]

Airports Authority of India^[3]

Aircraft projects[edit]

Ministers of Civil Aviation[edit]

No	Name	Portrait	Term of office			Political party	Prime Minister
1	John Mathai (Minister of Transport)		15 August 1947	22 September 1948	1 year, 38 days	Indian National Congress	Jawaharlal Nehru
2	N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar (Minister of Transport and Railways)		17 August 1948	13 May 1952	3 years, 270 days
3	Lal Bahadur Shastri (Minister of Railways and Transport)		13 May 1952	7 December 1956	4 years, 208 days
4	Hari Vinayak Pataskar		7 December 1956	16 April 1957	130 days
3	Lal Bahadur Shastri (Minister of Transport and Communications)		16 April 1957	28 March 1958	346 days
5	S. K. Patil (Minister of Transport and Communications)		29 March 1958	24 August 1959	1 year, 148 days
6	P. Subbarayan (Minister of Transport and Communications)		2 September 1959	10 April 1962	2 years, 220 days
7	Jagjivan Ram (Minister of Transport and Communications)		10 April 1962	31 August 1963	1 year, 143 days
8	Satya Narayan Sinha		9 June 1964	13 June 1964	4 days		Lal Bahadur Shastri
9	Nityanand Kanungo (As MoS)		13 June 1964	31 July 1965	1 year, 48 days
10	Raj Bahadur		31 July 1965	24 January 1966	177 days
11	Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy (Minister of Transport, Aviation, Shipping, and Tourism)		24 January 1966	16 March 1967	1 year, 51 days		Indira Gandhi
12	Karan Singh		16 March 1967	9 November 1973	6 years, 238 days
10	Raj Bahadur		9 November 1973	22 December 1976	3 years, 43 days
13	Kotha Raghuramaiah	File:Kotha Raghuramaiah.jpg	23 December 1976	24 March 1977	91 days
14	Purushottam Kaushik		24 March 1977	15 July 1979	2 years, 113 days	Janata Party	Morarji Desai
15	Mohammad Shafi Qureshi		30 July 1979	14 January 1980	168 days	Indian National Congress (U)	Charan Singh
16	Janaki Ballabh Patnaik		14 January 1980	7 June 1980	145 days	Indian National Congress	Indira Gandhi
17	Anant Prasad Sharma	File:Anant Prasad Sharma Official portrait 1983.jpg	19 October 1980	2 September 1982	1 year, 318 days
18	Bhagwat Jha Azad (Independent Charge)		2 September 1982	14 February 1983	134 days
19	Khurshed Alam Khan		14 February 1983	31 December 1984	1 year, 352 days
20	Jagdish Tytler		22 October 1986	14 February 1988	1 year, 115 days		Rajiv Gandhi
21	Motilal Vora		14 February 1988^[5]	25 June 1988	132 days
22	Shivraj Patil (Independent Charge)		25 June 1988	2 December 1989	1 year, 160 days
23	Arif Mohammed Khan		6 December 1989	10 November 1990	339 days	Janata Dal	V. P. Singh
24	Harmohan Dhawan (Independent Charge)		21 November 1990	21 June 1991	212 days	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)	Chandra Shekhar
25	Madhavrao Scindia		21 June 1991	9 January 1993	1 year, 202 days	Indian National Congress	P. V. Narasimha Rao
26	Ghulam Nabi Azad		9 January 1993	16 May 1996	3 years, 128 days	Indian National Congress	P. V. Narasimha Rao
27	V. Dhananjaya Kumar		16 May 1996	1 June 1996	16 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
28	C. M. Ibrahim		1 June 1996	19 March 1998	1 year, 291 days	Janata Dal	H. D. Deve Gowda
28	C. M. Ibrahim		1 June 1996	19 March 1998	1 year, 291 days	Janata Dal	I. K. Gujral
29	Ananth Kumar		19 March 1998	13 October 1999	1 year, 208 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
30	Sharad Yadav		13 October 1999	31 August 2001	1 year, 322 days	Janata Dal (United)
31	Syed Shahnawaz Hussain		1 September 2001	23 May 2003	1 year, 264 days	Bharatiya Janata Party
32	Rajiv Pratap Rudy (Independent Charge)		24 May 2003	22 May 2004	364 days	Bharatiya Janata Party
33	Praful Patel (Independent Charge)		23 May 2004	18 January 2011	6 years, 240 days	Nationalist Congress Party	Manmohan Singh
34	Vayalar Ravi		19 January 2011	18 December 2011	333 days	Indian National Congress
35	Ajit Singh		18 December 2011	26 May 2014	2 years, 159 days	Rashtriya Lok Dal
36	Ashok Gajapathi Raju	File:Shri Ashok Gajapati Raju.jpg	26 May 2014	9 March 2018	3 years, 287 days	Telugu Desam Party	Narendra Modi
37	Suresh Prabhu		10 March 2018	30 May 2019	1 year, 81 days	Bharatiya Janata Party
38	Hardeep Singh Puri (Independent Charge)		30 May 2019	7 July 2021	2 years, 38 days
39	Jyotiraditya Scindia		7 July 2021	Incumbent	3 years, 240 days

List of Ministers of State[edit]

Ministers of State in the Ministry of Civil Aviation
Minister of state	Portrait	Political party	Term		Days
G. M. Siddeshwara	File:Gm siddeswara.jpg	Bharatiya Janata Party	26 May 2014	9 November 2014	167 days
Mahesh Sharma			9 November 2014	5 July 2016	604 days
Jayant Sinha			5 July 2016	30 May 2019	1059 days
V. K. Singh			07 July 2021	Incumbent	1336 days

References[edit]

↑ "Budget data" (PDF). www.indiabudget.gov.in. 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2018. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 30 December 2012. Retrieved 1 June 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 "Ministry of Civil Aviation." Government of India. Retrieved on 20 February 2012.
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 "Commission of Railway Safety Archived 29 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine." Ministry of Civil Aviation. Retrieved on 19 February 2012.
↑ "Vayudoot remains Harsh Vardhan's show". India Today.

External links[edit]

[1] "Budget data" (PDF). www.indiabudget.gov.in. 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2018. Retrieved 15 September 2018.

[2] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 30 December 2012. Retrieved 1 June 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[Ministryinfo-3] 3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 "Ministry of Civil Aviation." Government of India. Retrieved on 20 February 2012.

[Commission_of_Railway_Safety-4] 4.0 ^4.1 "Commission of Railway Safety Archived 29 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine." Ministry of Civil Aviation. Retrieved on 19 February 2012.

[5] "Vayudoot remains Harsh Vardhan's show". India Today.

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