Minister of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
State Emblem of India
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Incumbent Narendra Modi since 26 May 2014
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
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; 53 years ago (1970-08-01)
First holder	Indira Gandhi
Unofficial names	Personnel Minister, Minister of Personnel
Deputy	Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions

The Minister of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions (IAST: Kārmika, Loka Śikāyata Aura Peṃśana Maṃtrī) 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.

Powers

As 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

Source: ^[7]^[8]

No.	Portrait	Minister (Birth-Death) Constituency	Term of office			Political party	Ministry	Prime Minister
No.	Portrait	Minister (Birth-Death) Constituency	From	To	Period	Political party	Ministry	Prime Minister
1		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
1			1 August 1970	24 March 1977	6 years, 235 days	Indian National Congress	Indira III	Self
2		Charan Singh (1902–1987) MP for Baghpat	24 March 1977	1 July 1978	1 year, 99 days	Janata Party	Desai	Morarji Desai
3		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		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
6		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		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
9		P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004) MP for Hanamkonda	19 July 1984	31 October 1984	165 days
9		P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004) MP for Hanamkonda	31 October 1984	31 December 1984	165 days		Rajiv I	Rajiv Gandhi
10		Rajiv Gandhi (1944–1991) MP for Amethi (Prime Minister)	31 December 1984	2 December 1989	4 years, 336 days		Rajiv II	Rajiv Gandhi
11		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		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		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
14		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		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		Inder Kumar Gujral (1919–2012) Rajya Sabha MP for Bihar	21 April 1997	18 March 1998	331 days	Janata Dal	Gujral	Self
(14)		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
(14)			19 March 1998	30 January 2003	4 years, 317 days		Vajpayee III
17		L. K. Advani (born 1927) MP for Gandhinagar (Deputy Prime Minister)	30 January 2003	22 May 2004	1 year, 113 days		Vajpayee III
18		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
18			22 May 2004	26 May 2014	10 years, 4 days	Indian National Congress	Manmohan II	Self
19		Narendra Modi (born 1950) MP for Varanasi (Prime Minister)	26 May 2014	Incumbent	9 years, 267 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Modi I	Self
19			26 May 2014	Incumbent	9 years, 267 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Modi II	Self

List of ministers of state

No.	Portrait	Minister^[9]^[10] (Birth-Death) Constituency	Term of office			Political party	Ministry	Prime Minister
No.	Portrait	Minister^[9]^[10] (Birth-Death) Constituency	From	To	Period	Political party	Ministry	Prime Minister
1		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
1			23 August 1970	10 October 1974	4 years, 48 days		Indira III
2		Om Mehta (1927–1995) Rajya Sabha MP for Jammu and Kashmir	10 October 1974	24 March 1977	2 years, 165 days		Indira III
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
4		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
6		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
7		S. R. Balasubramoniyan (born 1938) MP for Nilgiris	3 May 1997	19 March 1998	320 days	Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar)	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		Vasundhara Raje (born 1953) MP for Jhalawar	9 April 1999	13 October 1999	4 years, 296 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Vajpayee II
9		Vasundhara Raje (born 1953) MP for Jhalawar	13 October 1999	30 January 2003	4 years, 296 days		Vajpayee III
10		Arun Shourie (born 1941) MP for Uttar Pradesh (Rajya Sabha)	22 November 1999	1 September 2001	1 year, 283 days
11		Harin Pathak (born 1947) MP for Ahmedabad East	30 January 2003	22 May 2004	1 year, 113 days
12		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		Prithviraj Chavan (born 1946) MP for Maharashtra (Rajya Sabha)	6 April 2008	22 May 2009	2 years, 218 days		Manmohan I
13			28 May 2009	10 November 2010	2 years, 218 days		Manmohan II
14		V. Narayanasamy (born 1947) MP for Puducherry	10 November 2010	26 May 2014	3 years, 197 days		Manmohan II
15		Jitendra Singh (born 1956) MP for Udhampur	26 May 2014	30 May 2019	9 years, 267 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Modi I	Narendra Modi
15		Jitendra Singh (born 1956) MP for Udhampur	31 May 2019	Incumbent	9 years, 267 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Modi II	Narendra Modi

Notes

References

^ 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 March 6, 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 March 6, 2018.

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