Ministry of Power (India)

Ministry of Power
	; Raj Kumar Singh
Ministry overview
Formed	2 July 1992; 31 years ago
Preceding Ministry	Ministry of Energy Sources;
Jurisdiction	Government of India
Headquarters	Shram Shakti Bhawan, Rafi Marg, New Delhi, India
Annual budget	₹118,761.71 crore (US$17 billion) (2022-23 est.)
Minister responsible	Raj Kumar Singh;
Ministry executive	Alok Kumar IAS Power Secretary;
Website	powermin.gov.in

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The Ministry of Power is an Indian government ministry. The current Union Cabinet Minister is Raj Kumar Singh. The ministry is charged with overseeing electricity production and infrastructure development, including generation, transmission, and delivery, as well as maintenance projects.

The ministry acts as a liaison between the central government and state electricity operations, as well as with the private sector. The ministry also oversees rural electrification projects.

History[edit]

The Ministry of Power became a ministry on July 2, 1992 during the P. V. Narasimha Rao government.^[2] Prior to that time it had been a department (the Department of Power) in the Ministry of Power, Coal and Non-Conventional Energy Sources. That ministry was split into the Ministry of Power, Ministry of Coal, and Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources (renamed the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy in 2006).

In 2012, the Ministry of Power inaugurated the Smart Grid project in Puducherry.^[3]

List of Power Ministers[edit]

No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office			Prime Minister	Political party (Alliance)
1		Narhar Vishnu Gadgil	15 August 1947	12 December 1950	3 years, 119 days	Jawaharlal Nehru	Indian National Congress
2		Gulzarilal Nanda	6 June 1952	17 April 1957	4 years, 315 days
3		S. K. Patil	17 April 1957	2 April 1958	350 days
4		Hafiz Mohammad Ibrahim	2 April 1958	26 June 1963	5 years, 85 days
5		H. C. Dasappa	9 June 1964	19 July 1964	40 days	Lal Bahadur Shastri
6		Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed	29 January 1966	13 November 1966	288 days	Lal Bahadur Shastri
7		K. L. Rao (MoS)	13 November 1966	9 November 1973	6 years, 361 days	Indira Gandhi
8		K C Pant	9 November 1973	24 March 1977	3 years, 135 days	Indira Gandhi
9		P. Ramachandran	26 March 1977	28 July 1979	2 years, 124 days	Morarji Desai	Janata Party
(8)		K C Pant	30 July 1979	14 January 1980	168 days	Charan Singh	Indian National Congress (Urs)
10	File:SHIV SHANKER, SHRI P.jpg	P. Shiv Shankar	2 September 1982	31 December 1984	2 years, 120 days	Indira Gandhi	Indian National Congress
11		B. Shankaranand	31 December 1984	25 September 1985	268 days	Rajiv Gandhi
12		Vasant Sathe	25 September 1985	2 December 1989	4 years, 68 days	Rajiv Gandhi
13		Arif Mohammad Khan	6 December 1989	10 November 1990	339 days	V. P. Singh	Janata Dal
15		Kalyan Singh Kalvi	21 November 1990	21 June 1991	212 days	Chandra Shekhar	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)
16		Kalpnath Rai (Independent Charge)	21 June 1991	18 January 1993	1 year, 211 days	P. V. Narasimha Rao	Indian National Congress
17		N. K. P. Salve	18 January 1993	16 May 1996	3 years, 119 days	P. V. Narasimha Rao	Indian National Congress
18		Atal Bihari Vajpayee	16 May 1996	1 June 1996	16 days	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	Bharatiya Janata Party
19		H. D. Deve Gowda	1 June 1996	21 April 1997	324 days	Deve Gowda	Janata Dal
20		I. K. Gujral	21 April 1997	9 June 1997	49 days	I. K. Gujral	Janata Dal
21		Yoginder K Alagh (Independent Charge)	9 June 1997	19 March 1998	283 days	I. K. Gujral	Independent
22		Rangarajan Kumaramangalam	19 March 1998	23 August 2000	2 years, 157 days	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	Bharatiya Janata Party
(18)		Atal Bihari Vajpayee	23 August 2000	30 September 2000	38 days		Bharatiya Janata Party
23		Suresh Prabhu	30 September 2000	24 August 2002	1 year, 328 days		Shiv Sena
24		Anant Geete	26 August 2002	22 May 2004	1 year, 270 days		Shiv Sena
25		P M Sayeed	22 May 2004	18 December 2005	1 year, 210 days	Manmohan Singh	Indian National Congress
26		Manmohan Singh	18 December 2005	29 January 2006	42 days
27		Sushil Kumar Shinde	29 January 2006	31 July 2012	6 years, 184 days
28		Veerappa Moily	31 July 2012	28 October 2012	89 days
29		Jyotiraditya Scindia (Independent Charge)	29 October 2012	26 May 2014	1 year, 209 days
30		Piyush Goyal (Independent Charge)	26 May 2014	3 September 2017	3 years, 100 days	Narendra Modi	Bharatiya Janata Party
31		Raj Kumar Singh (Independent Charge till 7-Jul-2021)	3 September 2017	Incumbent	6 years, 161 days	Narendra Modi	Bharatiya Janata Party

List of Ministers of State[edit]

Ministers of State in the Ministry of Power
Name	Portrait	Political party		Term		Years
Krishan Pal Gurjar		Template:Party name with colour	7 July 2021	Incumbent	2 years, 219 days

References[edit]

↑ "Budget data" (PDF). www.indiabudget.gov.in. 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2018. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
↑ About ministry, Ministry of Power (India), archived from the original on 26 October 2012
↑ "Smart grid project inaugurated". Puducherry. The Hindu. 20 October 2012. Retrieved 23 October 2012.

External links[edit]

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

[2] About ministry, Ministry of Power (India), archived from the original on 26 October 2012

[smartgrid-3] "Smart grid project inaugurated". Puducherry. The Hindu. 20 October 2012. Retrieved 23 October 2012.

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