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List Of Indian Railways Ministers.

Year
s Railway Minister
1947
(Nov.)
...
more...
John Mathai (not formally
designated the Minister for Railways)
presents the first Railway budget for
independent India
1948
-
1952
N Gopalaswamy Ayyangar; worked
on consolidating the various railways
into the zonal railways
1952
-
1956
Lal Bahadur Shastri; resigned in
1956 taking responsibility for three
fatal railway accidents
1956
-
1962
Jagjivan Ram
1962 Sardar Swaran Singh
1967??
Kengal Hanumanthaiah (Note: Some
sources suggest he was Railway
Minister later, in 1971). Ram Sew
Singh is also mentioned in some
sources as a railway minister in
1966-1968, he may not have been
a Cabinet minister for railways.
1968 Cheppudira Muthana Poonacha
1969 Govinda Menon Panampilly
1970
-
1971
Gulzari Lal Nanda Note: Kengal
Hanumanthaiah may have been the
Railway Minister briefly in 1971.
1972
-
1973
Tonse Ananth Pai
1973
-
1975
Lalit Narayan Mishra; killed by a
bomb blast 2-Jan-1975, at the
opening of a railway line in
Samastipur.
1975
-
1977
Kamlapati Tripathi (again briefly in
1980?)
1977
-
1979
Prof. Madhu Dandavate
1980
-
1981
Kedar Pandey (Kamlapathi Tripathi
briefly in 1980)
(
1981
?)
1982
-
1984
ABA Ghani Khan Chowdhury.
1984
Bansi Lal; his was a brief stint
during a reorganization of some
ministries and government
departments
(
1985
?)
1984
-
1989
Madhav Rao Scindia
1989
-
1990
George Fernandes
1990
-
1991
Jnaneshwar Mishra; very short
tenure
1991
-
1995
C K Jaffer Sharief
1995
-
1996
Suresh Kalmadi (briefly), followed
by Atal Behari Vajpayee also
briefly, who held the Railways
portfolio along with being PM.
1996
-
1998
Ram Vilas Paswan
1998
-
1999
Nitish Kumar
2000 Mamata Banerjee
2001
-
2004
Nitish Kumar
2004
-
2009
Laloo Prasad Yadav
2009
- Mamata Banerjee
2011
-Dinesh Trivedi
2012
-Mukul Roy
2012
-C P Joshi
2012
-Pawan Kumar Bansal
2013
-C P Joshi
2013
-Mallikarjun Khadge
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