Track your constituency
Live News
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..png "Ministry of Railway")
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