The Minister of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions (IAST: Kārmik, Lok Śikāyat Aur Peṃśan Mantrī) is the cabinet minister in charge of Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions. The position is generally held by the prime minister, but sometimes it has been held by other senior members of the cabinet, such as the Minister of Home Affairs. The minister is generally assisted by a minister of state.
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| Style | The Honourable |
| Member of | Union Council of Ministers of India |
| Reports to | President of India Prime Minister of India Parliament of India |
| Residence | 7, Lok Kalyan Marg (as Prime minister) |
| Seat | South Block, Secretariat Building, New Delhi |
| Nominator | Prime minister |
| Appointer | President |
| Formation | 1 August 1970 |
| First holder | Indira Gandhi |
| Unofficial names | Personnel Minister, Minister of Personnel |
| Deputy | Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions |
Powers
editAs the Minister of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, the prime minister exercises control over the Indian Administrative Service (IAS),[1] the country's premier civil service,[2][3] which staffs most of the senior civil service positions;[2][3] the Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB);[4][5] and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI),[4][5] except for the selection of its director, who is chosen by a committee of: (a) the prime minister, as chairperson; (b) the leader of the opposition in Lok Sabha; (c) and the chief justice.[6]
List of ministers
edit| No. | Portrait | Minister (Birth-Death) Constituency |
Term of office | Political party | Ministry | Prime Minister | |||
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Indira Gandhi (1917–1984) MP for Rae Bareli (Prime Minister) |
1 August 1970 |
24 March 1977 |
6 years, 235 days | Indian National Congress | Indira I | Self | |
| Indira III | |||||||||
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Charan Singh (1902–1987) MP for Baghpat |
24 March 1977 |
1 July 1978 |
1 year, 99 days | Janata Party | Desai | Morarji Desai | |
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Morarji Desai (1896–1995) MP for Surat (Prime Minister) |
1 July 1978 |
24 January 1979 |
207 days | ||||
| 4 | Hirubhai M. Patel (1904–1993) MP for Sabarkantha |
24 January 1979 |
28 July 1979 |
185 days | |||||
| 5 | 
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Yashwantrao Chavan (1913–1984) MP for Satara (Deputy Prime Minister) |
28 July 1979 |
14 January 1980 |
170 days | Janata Party (Secular) | Charan Singh | Charan Singh | |
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Zail Singh (1916–1994) MP for Hoshiarpur |
14 January 1980 |
22 June 1982 |
2 years, 159 days | Indian National Congress (I) | Indira IV | Indira Gandhi | |
| 7 | 
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Ramaswamy Venkataraman (1910–2009) MP for Chennai South |
22 June 1982 |
2 September 1982 |
72 days | ||||
| 8 | Prakash Chandra Sethi (1919–1996) MP for Indore |
2 September 1982 |
19 July 1984 |
1 year, 321 days | |||||
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P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004) MP for Hanamkonda |
19 July 1984 |
31 October 1984 |
165 days | ||||
| 31 October 1984 |
31 December 1984 |
Rajiv I | Rajiv Gandhi | ||||||
| 10 | 
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Rajiv Gandhi (1944–1991) MP for Amethi (Prime Minister) |
31 December 1984 |
2 December 1989 |
4 years, 336 days | Rajiv II | |||
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V. P. Singh (1931–2008) MP for Fatehpur (Prime Minister) |
2 December 1989 |
10 November 1990 |
340 days | Janata Dal | V. P. Singh | Self | |
| 12 | 
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Chandra Shekhar (1927–2007) MP for Ballia (Prime Minister) |
10 November 1990 |
21 June 1991 |
223 days | Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) | Chandra Shekhar | Self | |
| 13 |
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P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004) MP for Nandyal (Prime Minister) |
21 June 1991 |
16 May 1996 |
4 years, 330 days | Indian National Congress (I) | Rao | Self | |
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Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018) MP for Lucknow (Prime Minister) |
16 May 1996 |
1 June 1996 |
16 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Vajpayee I | Self | |
| 15 | 
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H. D. Deve Gowda (born 1933) Rajya Sabha MP for Karnataka (Prime Minister) |
1 June 1996 |
21 April 1997 |
324 days | Janata Dal | Deve Gowda | Self | |
| 16 | 
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Inder Kumar Gujral (1919–2012) Rajya Sabha MP for Bihar (Prime Minister) |
21 April 1997 |
18 March 1998 |
331 days | Gujral | Self | ||
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Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018) MP for Lucknow (Prime Minister) |
19 March 1998 |
30 January 2003 |
4 years, 317 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Vajpayee II | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | |
| Vajpayee III | |||||||||
| 17 | 
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L. K. Advani (born 1927) MP for Gandhinagar (Deputy Prime Minister) |
30 January 2003 |
22 May 2004 |
1 year, 113 days | ||||
| 18 | 
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Manmohan Singh (born 1932) Rajya Sabha MP for Assam (Prime Minister) |
22 May 2004 |
26 May 2014 |
10 years, 4 days | Indian National Congress | Manmohan I | Self | |
| Manmohan II | |||||||||
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Narendra Modi (born 1950) MP for Varanasi (Prime Minister) |
26 May 2014 |
Incumbent | 10 years, 205 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Modi I | Self | |
| Modi II | |||||||||
| Modi III | |||||||||
List of ministers of state
edit| No. | Portrait | Minister[9][10] (Birth-Death) Constituency |
Term of office | Political party | Ministry | Prime Minister | |||
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| From | To | Period | |||||||
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Ram Niwas Mirdha (1924–2010) Rajya Sabha MP for Rajasthan |
23 August 1970 |
10 October 1974 |
4 years, 48 days | Indian National Congress (R) | Indira II | Indira Gandhi | |
| Indira III | |||||||||
| 2 | Om Mehta (1927–1995) Rajya Sabha MP for Jammu and Kashmir |
10 October 1974 |
24 March 1977 |
2 years, 165 days | |||||
| 3 | Brigadier (Retd.) Kamakhya Prasad Singh Deo AVSM (born 1941) MP for Dhenkanal |
31 December 1984 |
25 September 1985 |
268 days | Indian National Congress (I) | Rajiv | Rajiv Gandhi | ||
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P. Chidambaram (born 1945) MP for Sivaganga |
25 September 1985 |
2 December 1989 |
4 years, 68 days | ||||
| 5 | Biren Sing Engti (born 1945) MP for Autonomous District |
14 July 1986 |
14 February 1988 |
1 year, 215 days | |||||
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Margaret Alva (born 1942) MP for Karnataka (Rajya Sabha) |
21 June 1991 |
16 May 1996 |
4 years, 330 days | Rao | P. V. Narasimha Rao | ||
| 7 | S. R. Balasubramoniyan (born 1938) MP for Nilgiris |
29 June 1996 |
21 April 1997 |
296 days | Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar) | Deve Gowda | H. D. Deve Gowda | ||
| 3 May 1997 |
19 March 1998 |
320 days | Gujral | Inder Kumar Gujral | |||||
| 8 | Kadambur R. Janarthanan (1929–2020) MP for Tirunelveli |
19 March 1998 |
8 April 1999 |
1 year, 20 days | All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | Vajpayee II | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | ||
| 9 | 
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Vasundhara Raje (born 1953) MP for Jhalawar |
9 April 1999 |
13 October 1999 |
4 years, 296 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | |||
| 13 October 1999 |
30 January 2003 |
Vajpayee III | |||||||
| 10 | 
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Arun Shourie (born 1941) MP for Uttar Pradesh (Rajya Sabha) |
22 November 1999 |
1 September 2001 |
1 year, 283 days | ||||
| 11 | 
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Harin Pathak (born 1947) MP for Ahmedabad East |
30 January 2003 |
22 May 2004 |
1 year, 113 days | ||||
| 12 | 
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Suresh Pachouri (born 1952) MP for Madhya Pradesh (Rajya Sabha) |
23 May 2004 |
6 April 2008 |
3 years, 319 days | Indian National Congress | Manmohan I | Manmohan Singh | |
| 13 | 
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Prithviraj Chavan (born 1946) MP for Maharashtra (Rajya Sabha) |
6 April 2008 |
22 May 2009 |
2 years, 218 days | ||||
| 28 May 2009 |
10 November 2010 |
Manmohan II | |||||||
| 14 | 
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V. Narayanasamy (born 1947) MP for Puducherry |
10 November 2010 |
26 May 2014 |
3 years, 197 days | ||||
| 15 | 
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Jitendra Singh (born 1956) MP for Udhampur |
26 May 2014 |
30 May 2019 |
10 years, 205 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Modi I | Narendra Modi | |
| 31 May 2019 |
9 June 2024 |
Modi II | |||||||
| 9 June 2024 |
Incumbent | Modi III | |||||||
Notes
editReferences
edit- ^ Laxmikanth, M. (2014). Governance in India (2nd ed.). Noida: McGraw-Hill Education (published 25 August 2014). p. 7.6. ISBN 978-9339204785.
- ^ a b "Service Profile for the Indian Administrative Service" (PDF). Department of Personnel and Training, Government of India. Retrieved 13 August 2017.
- ^ a b Tummala, Krishna Kumar (1996). Public Administration in India. Mumbai: Allied Publishers. pp. 154–159. ISBN 978-8170235903. OCLC 313439426.
- ^ a b Laxmikanth, M. (2014). Governance in India (2nd ed.). Noida: McGraw-Hill Education (published 25 August 2014). p. 7.37. ISBN 978-9339204785.
- ^ a b "Organisation Under DOPT". Department of Personnel and Training, Government of India. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
- ^ "All about CBI director's appointment as PM Modi, CJI Kehar, Kharge meet to vet names". India Today. New Delhi: Aroon Purie. 16 January 2017. ISSN 0254-8399. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
- ^ "Name of Cabinet Ministers who have held the charge of this department/ministry since its inception in 1970" (PDF). Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Government of India. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ "Name of Minister of States who have held the charge of this department/ministry since its inception in 1970" (PDF). Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Government of India. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ "Name of Cabinet Ministers who have held the charge of this department/ministry since its inception in 1970" (PDF). Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Government of India. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ "Name of Minister of States who have held the charge of this department/ministry since its inception in 1970" (PDF). Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Government of India. Retrieved 6 March 2018.