Coordinates: 28°35′12.4″N 77°14′24.3″E / 28.586778°N 77.240083°E
| Ministry overview | |
|---|---|
| Dissolved | 5 July 2016 |
| Superseding agencies | |
| Jurisdiction | Government of India |
| Headquarters | Electronics Niketan, 6, CGO Complex,Lodhi Road, New Delhi - 110003 |
| Website | meity |
The Ministry of Communication and Information Technology was an Indian government ministry. It was bifurcated into Ministry of Communications and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology in July 2016. It contained three departments viz. Department of Telecommunications, Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY, now Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology) and Department of Posts.[citation needed]
The following cadre controlling authority of the Civil Services (including Indian Telecommunication Service, Indian Postal Service, Indian Radio Regulatory Service, Telegraph Traffic Service, Indian Post & Telegraph Building Works Services and Indian Posts and Telegraphs Accounts and Finance Service) are under the administration and supervision of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.[citation needed]
Following is the list of Ministers of Communications.[1]
| Portrait | Name | Term of office | Political party
(Alliance) |
Prime Minister | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | |Rafi Ahmed Kidwai | 15 August 1947 | 2 August 1951 | Indian National Congress | Jawaharlal Nehru | |
| 2 | |Amrit Kaur | 2 August 1951 | 13 May 1952 | |||
| 3 | |Jagjivan Ram | 13 May 1952 | 7 December 1956 | |||
| 4 | |Raj Bahadur | 7 December 1956 | 17 April 1957 | |||
| 5 | |Lal Bahadur Shastri | 17 April 1957 | 28 March 1958 | |||
| 6 | |S. K. Patil | 29 March 1958 | 24 August 1959 | |||
| 7 | |Jawaharlal Nehru | 25 August 1959 | 2 September 1959 | |||
| 8 | |P. Subbarayan | 2 September 1959 | 9 April 1962 | |||
| 9 | |Jagjivan Ram | 10 April 1963 | 31 August 1963 | |||
| 10 | |Ashoke Kumar Sen | 1 September 1963 | 13 June 1964 | |||
| — | Lal Bahadur Shastri | |||||
| 11 | Satya Narayan Sinha | 13 June 1964 | 12 March 1967 | |||
| — | Indira Gandhi | |||||
| 12 | |Ram Subhag Singh | 13 March 1967 | 14 February 1969 | |||
| 13 | Satya Narayan Sinha | 14 February 1969 | 8 March 1971 | |||
| 14 | |Indira Gandhi | 9 March 1971 | 17 March 1971 | |||
| 15 | Sher Singh | 18 March 1971 | 2 May 1971 | |||
| 16 | |Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna | 2 May 1971 | 8 November 1973 | |||
| 17 | |Raj Bahadur | 8 November 1973 | 11 January 1974 | |||
| 18 | |Kasu Brahmananda Reddy | 11 January 1974 | 10 October 1974 | |||
| 19 | |Shankar Dayal Sharma | 10 October 1974 | 24 March 1977 | |||
| 20 | |Morarji Desai | 24 March 1977 | 26 March 1977 | Janata Party | Morarji Desai | |
| 21 | |Parkash Singh Badal | 26 March 1977 | 27 March 1977 | Shiromani Akali Dal | ||
| 22 | |George Fernandes | 28 March 1977 | 6 July 1977 | Janata Party | ||
| 23 | Brij Lal Varma | 6 July 1977 | 28 July 1979 | |||
| 24 | |Charan Singh | 28 July 1979 | 30 July 1979 | Janata Party (Secular) | Charan Singh | |
| 25 | Zulfiquarullah (MoS, Independent Charge) |
30 July 1979 | 27 November 1979 | |||
| 26 | Shyam Nandan Mishra | 7 December 1979 | 14 January 1980 | |||
| 27 | Bhishma Narain Singh | 16 January 1980 | 3 March 1980 | Indian National Congress | Indira Gandhi | |
| 28 | C. M. Stephen | 3 March 1980 | 2 September 1982 | |||
| 29 | Anant Prasad Sharma | 2 September 1982 | 14 February 1983 | |||
| 30 | |Rajiv Gandhi | 31 October 1984 | 4 November 1984 | Rajiv Gandhi | ||
| 31 | V. N. Gadgil | 4 November 1984 | 31 December 1984 | |||
| 32 | |Ram Niwas Mirdha (MoS, Independent Charge) |
31 December 1984 | 22 October 1986 | |||
| 33 | |Arjun Singh | 22 October 1986 | 14 February 1988 | |||
| 34 | Vasant Sathe | 14 February 1988 | 25 June 1988 | |||
| 35 | Bir Bahadur Singh | 25 June 1988 | 30 June 1989 | |||
| 36 | |Giridhar Gamang (MoS, Independent Charge) |
4 July 1989 | 2 December 1989 | |||
| 37 | |V. P. Singh | 2 December 1989 | 6 December 1989 | Janata Dal | V. P. Singh | |
| 38 | K.P. Unnikrishnan | 6 December 1989 | 23 April 1990 | Congress (Secular) | ||
| 39 | Janeshwar Mishra (MoS, Independent Charge) |
30 April 1990 | 5 November 1990 | Janata Dal | ||
| 40 | |Chandra Shekhar | 10 November 1990 | 21 November 1990 | Samajwadi Janata Party | Chandra Shekhar | |
| 41 | Sanjay Singh (MoS, Independent Charge) |
22 November 1990 | 21 June 1991 | |||
| 42 | | Rajesh Pilot (MoS, Independent Charge) |
21 June 1991 | 17 January 1993 | Indian National Congress | P. V. Narasimha Rao | |
| 43 | Sukh Ram (MoS, Independent Charge) |
17 January 1993 | 16 May 1996 | |||
| 44 | |Atal Bihari Vajpayee | 16 May 1996 | 1 June 1996 | Bharatiya Janata Party | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | |
| 45 | Beni Prasad Verma (As MoS, Independent Charge till 10 July 1996) |
1 June 1996 | 19 March 1998 | Samajwadi Party | H. D. Dewe Gowda I. K. Gujral | |
| 46 | |Atal Bihari Vajpayee | 19 March 1998 | 21 March 1998 | Bharatiya Janata Party | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | |
| 47 | |Buta Singh | 21 March 1998 | 19 April 1998 | |||
| 48 | |Sushma Swaraj | 20 April 1998 | 11 October 1998 | |||
| 49 | |Jagmohan | 6 December 1998 | 8 June 1999 | |||
| 50 | |Ram Vilas Paswan | 13 October 1999 | 1 September 2001 | Janata Dal (United) | ||
| 51 | Pramod Mahajan | 2 September 2001 | 28 January 2003 | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| 52 | |Arun Shourie | 29 January 2003 | 22 May 2004 | |||
| 53 | |Dayanidhi Maran | 23 May 2004 | 15 May 2007 | Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | Manmohan Singh | |
| 54 | |A. Raja | 16 May 2007 | 14 November 2010 | |||
| 55 | |Manmohan Singh | 15 November 2010 | 19 January 2011 | Indian National Congress | ||
| 56 | |Kapil Sibal | 19 January 2011 | 26 May 2014 | |||
| 57 | |Ravi Shankar Prasad | 26 May 2014 | 5 July 2016 | Bharatiya Janata Party | Narendra Modi | |
