Ministry of Power (India)
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 Raj Kumar Singh | |
| Ministry overview | |
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| Formed | 2 July 1992 |
| Preceding Ministry |
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| Jurisdiction | Government of India |
| Headquarters | Shram Shakti Bhawan, Rafi Marg, New Delhi, India |
| Annual budget | ₹15,046.92 crore (US$2.1 billion) (2018-19 est.)[1] |
| Minister responsible |
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| Website | www |
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[]
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[]
| No. | Name | Portrait | Term of office | Political party (Alliance) |
Prime Minister | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Narhar Vishnu Gadgil | 
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15 August 1947 | 12 December 1950 | 3 years, 119 days | Indian National Congress | Jawaharlal Nehru | |
| 2 | Gulzarilal Nanda | 
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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 | 
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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 | 
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29 January 1966 | 13 November 1966 | 288 days | |||
| 7 | K. L. Rao (MoS) |
13 November 1966 | 9 November 1973 | 6 years, 361 days | Indira Gandhi | |||
| 8 | K C Pant | 
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9 November 1973 | 24 March 1977 | 3 years, 135 days | |||
| 9 | P. Ramachandran | 26 March 1977 | 28 July 1979 | 2 years, 124 days | Janata Party | Morarji Desai | ||
| (8) | K C Pant |
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30 July 1979 | 14 January 1980 | 168 days | Indian National Congress (Urs) | Charan Singh | |
| 10 | P Shiv Shankar | 2 September 1982 | 31 December 1984 | 2 years, 120 days | Indian National Congress | Indira Gandhi | ||
| 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 | ||||
| 13 | Arif Mohammad Khan | 
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6 December 1989 | 10 November 1990 | 339 days | Janata Dal | V. P. Singh | |
| 15 | Kalyan Singh Kalvi | 21 November 1990 | 21 June 1991 | 212 days | Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) | Chandra Shekhar | ||
| 16 | Kalpnath Rai (Independent Charge) |
21 June 1991 | 18 January 1993 | 1 year, 211 days | Indian National Congress | P. V. Narasimha Rao | ||
| 17 | N. K. P. Salve | 18 January 1993 | 16 May 1996 | 3 years, 119 days | ||||
| 18 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | 
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16 May 1996 | 1 June 1996 | 16 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | |
| 19 | H. D. Deve Gowda | 
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1 June 1996 | 21 April 1997 | 324 days | Janata Dal | H. D. Deve Gowda | |
| 20 | I. K. Gujral | 
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21 April 1997 | 9 June 1997 | 49 days | I. K. Gujral | ||
| 21 | Yoginder K Alagh (Independent Charge) |
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9 June 1997 | 19 March 1998 | 283 days | Independent | ||
| 22 | P R Kumaramangalam | 19 March 1998 | 23 August 2000 | 2 years, 157 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | ||
| (18) | Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
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23 August 2000 | 30 September 2000 | 38 days | |||
| 23 | Suresh Prabhu | 
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30 September 2000 | 24 August 2002 | 1 year, 328 days | Shiv Sena | ||
| 24 | Anant Geete | 
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26 August 2002 | 22 May 2004 | 1 year, 270 days | |||
| 25 | P M Sayeed | 
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22 May 2004 | 18 December 2005 | 1 year, 210 days | Indian National Congress | Manmohan Singh | |
| 26 | Manmohan Singh | 
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18 December 2005 | 29 January 2006 | 42 days | |||
| 27 | Sushil Kumar Shinde | 
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29 January 2006 | 31 July 2012 | 6 years, 184 days | |||
| 28 | Veerappa Moily | 
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31 July 2012 | 28 October 2012 | 89 days | |||
| 29 | Jyotiraditya Scindia (Independent Charge) |
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29 October 2012 | 26 May 2014 | 1 year, 209 days | |||
| 30 | Piyush Goyal (Independent Charge) |
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26 May 2014 | 3 September 2017 | 3 years, 100 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Narendra Modi | |
| 31 | Raj Kumar Singh (Independent Charge till 7 July 2021) |
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3 September 2017 | Incumbent | 3 years, 364 days | |||
List of Ministers of State[]
| Minister of state | Portrait | Political party | Term | Days | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Krishan Pal Gurjar | 
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Bharatiya Janata Party | 7 July 2021 | Incubment | 57 days | |
References[]
- ^ "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.
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