Ministry of Railway

Ashwini Vaishnaw is the Railway Minister of India

The charge and the responsibility of the India's rail transport is taken care by the Ministry of Railways of the country.The ministry looks after the state owned Indian Railways which is headed by the Chairman of the railway Board. The Railway Minister prepares and presents the Rail budget every year in the parliament. Ashwini Vaishnaw is the newly appointed Railway Minister of India. Piyush Goyal from BJP was the Railway Minister before Ashwini Vaishnaw took charge of the ministry, after the cabinet re-shuffling. Some other ministers who have held similar position include, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Jagjivan Ram, S.K. Patil, Gulzarilal Nanda, Bansi Lal, George Fernandes, Ram Vilas Paswan, Nitish Kumar, Mamta Bannerjee, Lalu Prasad Yadav and Pawan Kumar Bansal.

List of Current And Past Railways Ministers of India

S. No	Name	From	To	Political Party
1	Ashwini Vaishnaw	7-Jul-21	Incumbent	Bharatiya Janata Party
2	Piyush Goyal	3-Sep-17	7-Jul-21	Bharatiya Janata Party
3	Suresh Prabhu	10-Nov-14	3-Sep-17	Bharatiya Janata Party
4	D. V. Sadananda Gowda	27-May-14	10-Nov-14	Bharatiya Janata Party
5	Mallikarjun Kharge	17-Jun-13	25-May-14	Indian National Congress
6	C. P. Joshi	11-May-13	16-Jun-13	Indian National Congress
7	Pawan Kumar Bansal	28-Oct-12	10-May-13	Indian National Congress
8	C. P. Joshi	22-Sep-12	28-Oct-12	Indian National Congress
9	Mukul Roy	20-Mar-12	21-Sep-12	Trinamool Congress
10	Dinesh Trivedi	12-Jul-11	14-Mar-12	Trinamool Congress
11	Mamata Banerjee	26-May-09	19-May-11	Trinamool Congress
12	Lalu Prasad Yadav	23-May-04	25-May-09	Rashtriya Janata Dal
13	Nitish Kumar	20-Mar-01	22-May-04	Janata Dal (United)
14	Mamata Banerjee	13-Oct-99	15-Mar-01	Trinamool Congress
15	Ram Naik	6-Aug-99	12-Oct-99	Bharatiya Janata Party
16	Nitish Kumar	19-Mar-98	5-Aug-99	Samata Party
17	Ram Vilas Paswan	1-Jun-96	19-Mar-98	Janata Dal
18	Jaffer Sharief	21-Jun-91	16-Oct-95	Indian National Congress
19	Janeshwar Mishra	21-Nov-90	21-Jun-91	Samajwadi Janata Party
20	George Fernandes	5-Dec-89	10-Nov-90	Janata Dal
21	Madhavrao Scindia	22-Oct-86	1-Dec-89	Indian National Congress
22	Mohsina Kidwai	24-Jun-86	21-Oct-86	Indian National Congress
23	Bansi Lal	31-Dec-84	4-Jun-86	Indian National Congress
24	A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury	2-Sep-82	31-Dec-84	Indian National Congress
25	Prakash Chandra Sethi	15-Jan-82	2-Sep-82	Indian National Congress
26	Kedar Pandey	12-Nov-80	14-Jan-82	Indian National Congress
27	Kamalapati Tripathi	14-Jan-80	12-Nov-80	Indian National Congress
28	T. A. Pai	30-Jul-79	13-Jan-80	Janata Party (Secular)
29	Madhu Dandavate	26-Mar-77	28-Jul-79	Janata Party
30	Kamalapati Tripathi	11-Feb-75	23-Mar-77	Indian National Congress
31	Lalit Narayan Mishra	5-Feb-73	2-Jan-75	Indian National Congress
32	T. A. Pai	23-Jul-72	4-Feb-73	Indian National Congress
33	K. Hanumanthaiya	18-Mar-71	22-Jul-72	Indian National Congress
34	Gulzarilal Nanda	18-Feb-70	17-Mar-71	Indian National Congress
35	Panampilli Govinda Menon	4-Nov-69	18-Feb-70	Indian National Congress
36	Ram Subhag Singh	14-Feb-69	4-Nov-69	Indian National Congress
37	C. M. Poonacha	13-Mar-67	14-Feb-69	Indian National Congress
38	S. K. Patil	9-Jun-64	12-Mar-67	Indian National Congress
39	H. C. Dasappa	21-Sep-63	8-Jun-64	Indian National Congress
40	Swaran Singh	10-Apr-62	21-Sep-63	Indian National Congress
41	Jagjivan Ram	7-Dec-56	10-Apr-62	Indian National Congress
42	Lal Bahadur Shastri	13-May-52	7-Dec-56	Indian National Congress
43	N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar	22-Sep-48	13-May-52	Indian National Congress
44	John Mathai	15-Aug-47	22-Sep-48	Indian National Congress
45	Asaf Ali	2-Sep-46	14-Aug-47	Indian National Congress

Last Updated on Sep 08th, 2021

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