Ministry of Civil Aviation

Agency overview
Jurisdiction	Government of India
Headquarters	Ministry of Civil Aviation Rajiv Gandhi Bhawan New Delhi
Annual budget	₹3,113.50 crore (US$390 million) (2023–24 est.)[1]
Ministers responsible	Jyotiraditya Scindia, Cabinet Minister General V K Singh(retd), Minister of State
Agency executive	Shri Vumlunmang Vualnam IAS
Website	www.civilaviation.gov.in

The Ministry of Civil Aviation (Hindi: नागर विमानन मंत्रालय, naagar vimaanan mantraalay) in India is the nodal ministry responsible for the formulation of national policies and programmes for the development and regulation of civil aviation. It devises and implements schemes for the orderly growth and expansion of civil air transport in the country. Its functions also extend to overseeing airport facilities, air traffic services and carriage of passengers and goods by air. The ministry also administers the implementation of the Aircraft Act, 1934, Aircraft Rules, 1937 and is administratively responsible for the Commission of Railway Safety.

Organisation

The ministry has under its ownership the following central government establishments:

Directorates

• Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA)^[2]

Regulatory Bodies

• Airports Economic Regulatory Authority (AERA)

Attached Offices

• Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS)^[2]
• Commission of Railway Safety^[3] - The commission is the rail safety authority in India, as directed by the 1989 Railways Act. The agency investigates rail accidents.^[3]
• Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB)

Training Institutions

• Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi (IGRUA)^[2]

Statutory Bodies

• Airports Authority of India^[2]

Central Public Sector Undertakings

• Pawan Hans

Aircraft projects

• Civil Aviation Department RG-1 Rohini
• Civil Aviation Department MG-1
• Civil Aviation Department Mrigasheer
• Civil Aviation Department Revathi
• Hindustan Ardhra

List of ministers

#	Portrait	Name	Term of office			Prime Minister	Party
1		John Matthai	15 August 1947	22 September 1948	1 year, 38 days	Jawaharlal Nehru	Indian National Congress
2		N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar	17 August 1948	13 May 1952	3 years, 270 days
3		Lal Bahadur Shastri	13 May 1952	7 December 1956	4 years, 208 days
4		Hari Vinayak Pataskar	7 December 1956	16 April 1957	130 days
(3)		Lal Bahadur Shastri	16 April 1957	28 March 1958	346 days
5		S. K. Patil	29 March 1958	24 August 1959	1 year, 148 days
6		P. Subbarayan	2 September 1959	10 April 1962	2 years, 220 days
7		Jagjivan Ram	10 April 1962	31 August 1963	1 year, 143 days
8		Satya Narayan Sinha	9 June 1964	13 June 1964	4 days	Lal Bahadur Shastri
9		Nityanand Kanungo (As MoS)	13 June 1964	31 July 1965	1 year, 48 days
10		Raj Bahadur	31 July 1965	24 January 1966	177 days
11		Neelam Sanjiva Reddy	24 January 1966	16 March 1967	1 year, 51 days	Indira Gandhi
12		Karan Singh	16 March 1967	9 November 1973	6 years, 238 days
(10)		Raj Bahadur	9 November 1973	22 December 1976	3 years, 43 days
13		Kotha Raghuramaiah	23 December 1976	24 March 1977	91 days
14		Purushottam Kaushik	24 March 1977	15 July 1979	2 years, 113 days	Morarji Desai	Janata Party
15		Mohammad Shafi Qureshi	30 July 1979	14 January 1980	168 days	Charan Singh	Indian National Congress (U)
16		Janaki Ballabh Patnaik	14 January 1980	7 June 1980	145 days	Indira Gandhi	Indian National Congress
17		Anant Sharma	19 October 1980	2 September 1982	1 year, 318 days
18		Bhagwat Jha Azad (Independent Charge)	2 September 1982	14 February 1983	134 days
19		Khurshed Alam Khan	14 February 1983	31 December 1984	1 year, 352 days
20		Jagdish Tytler	22 October 1986	14 February 1988	1 year, 115 days	Rajiv Gandhi
21		Motilal Vora	14 February 1988[4]	25 June 1988	132 days
22		Shivraj Patil (Independent Charge)	25 June 1988	2 December 1989	1 year, 160 days
23		Arif Mohammad Khan	6 December 1989	10 November 1990	339 days	Vishwanath Pratap Singh	Janata Dal
24		Harmohan Dhawan (Independent Charge)	21 November 1990	21 June 1991	212 days	Chandra Shekhar	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)
25		Madhavrao Scindia	21 June 1991	9 January 1993	1 year, 202 days	P. V. Narasimha Rao	Indian National Congress
26		Ghulam Nabi Azad	9 January 1993	16 May 1996	3 years, 128 days
27		V. Dhananjay Kumar	16 May 1996	1 June 1996	16 days	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	Bharatiya Janata Party
28		C. M. Ibrahim	1 June 1996	19 March 1998	1 year, 291 days	H. D. Deve Gowda	Janata Dal
						Inder Kumar Gujral
29		Ananth Kumar	19 March 1998	13 October 1999	1 year, 208 days	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	Bharatiya Janata Party
30		Sharad Yadav	13 October 1999	31 August 2001	1 year, 322 days		Janata Dal (United)
31		Syed Shahnawaz Hussain	1 September 2001	23 May 2003	1 year, 264 days		Bharatiya Janata Party
32		Rajiv Pratap Rudy (Independent Charge)	24 May 2003	22 May 2004	364 days
33		Praful Patel (Independent Charge)	23 May 2004	18 January 2011	6 years, 240 days	Manmohan Singh	Nationalist Congress Party
34		Vayalar Ravi	19 January 2011	18 December 2011	333 days		Indian National Congress
35		Ajit Singh	18 December 2011	26 May 2014	2 years, 159 days		Rashtriya Lok Dal
36		Ashok Gajapathi Raju	26 May 2014	9 March 2018	3 years, 287 days	Narendra Modi	Telugu Desam Party
37		Suresh Prabhu	10 March 2018	30 May 2019	1 year, 81 days		Bharatiya Janata Party
38		Hardeep Singh Puri (Independent Charge)	30 May 2019	7 July 2021	2 years, 38 days
39		Jyotiraditya Scindia	7 July 2021	Incumbent	2 years, 214 days

List of ministers of state