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Jurisdiction | Government of India |
Annual budget | ₹42,901 crore (US$5.4 billion) (2020-21 est.) [1] |
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Website | mopng |
The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MOP&NG) is a ministry of the government of India responsible for the exploration, production, refining, distribution, marketing, import, export, and conservation of petroleum, natural gas, petroleum products, and liquefied natural gas in the country. The ministry is headed by the Cabinet Minister Hardeep Singh Puri. M. M. Kutty is the Secretary of the Ministry.[2]
# | Portrait | Name | Term of office | Prime Minister | Party | |||
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1 | Humayun Kabir | 21 November 1963 | 24 January 1966 | 2 years, 64 days | Jawaharlal Nehru Lal Bahadur Shastri |
Indian National Congress | ||
2 | O. V. Alagesan (Independent Charge) |
24 January 1966 | 13 March 1967 | 1 year, 48 days | Indira Gandhi | |||
3 | Asoka Mehta | 13 March 1967 | 22 August 1968 | 1 year, 162 days | ||||
4 | Kotha Raghuramaiah (Independent Charge) |
22 August 1968 | 14 February 1969 | 176 days | ||||
5 | Triguna Sen | 14 February 1969 | 18 March 1971 | 2 years, 32 days | ||||
6 | Dajisaheb Chavan (Independent Charge) |
18 March 1971 | 2 May 1971 | 45 days | ||||
7 | Prakash Chandra Sethi | 2 May 1971 | 29 January 1972 | 272 days | ||||
8 | H. R. Gokhale | 29 January 1972 | 5 February 1973 | 1 year, 7 days | ||||
9 | D. K. Barooah | 5 February 1973 | 10 October 1974 | 1 year, 247 days | ||||
10 | Keshav Dev Malviya | 10 October 1974 | 24 March 1977 | 2 years, 165 days | ||||
11 | Morarji Desai | 26 March 1977 | 29 March 1977 | 3 days | Morarji Desai | Janata Party | ||
12 | Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna | 29 March 1977 | 15 July 1979 | 2 years, 108 days | ||||
13 | Ravindra Varma | 15 July 1979 | 28 July 1979 | 13 days | ||||
14 | T. A. Pai | 28 July 1979 | 18 August 1979 | 21 days | Charan Singh | Janata Party (Secular) | ||
15 | A. Bala Pajanor | 19 August 1979 | 23 December 1979 | 127 days | All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | |||
16 | Charan Singh | 23 December 1979 | 27 December 1979 | 4 days | Janata Party (Secular) | |||
17 | S. N. Kacker | 27 December 1979 | 14 January 1980 | 18 days | ||||
18 | Indira Gandhi | 14 January 1980 | 16 January 1980 | 2 days | Indira Gandhi | Indian National Congress | ||
(7) | Prakash Chandra Sethi | 16 January 1980 | 15 January 1982 | 1 year, 364 days | ||||
19 | P. Shiv Shankar | 15 January 1982 | 31 December 1984 | 2 years, 351 days | Indira Gandhi Rajiv Gandhi | |||
20 | Nawal Kishore Sharma (Independent Charge) |
31 December 1984 | 20 January 1986 | 1 year, 20 days | Rajiv Gandhi | |||
21 | Chandrashekhar Singh (Independent Charge) |
20 January 1986 | 9 July 1986 | 170 days | ||||
22 | N. D. Tiwari | 9 July 1986 | 22 October 1986 | 105 days | ||||
23 | Brahm Dutt (Independent Charge) |
22 October 1986 | 2 December 1989 | 3 years, 41 days | ||||
24 | Vishwanath Pratap Singh | 2 December 1989 | 6 December 1989 | 4 days | V. P. Singh | Janata Dal | ||
25 | M. S. Gurupadaswamy | 6 December 1989 | 10 November 1990 | 339 days | ||||
26 | Chandra Shekhar | 10 November 1990 | 21 November 1990 | 11 days | Chandra Shekhar | Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) | ||
27 | Satya Prakash Malaviya | 21 November 1990 | 21 June 1991 | 212 days | ||||
28 | B. Shankaranand | 21 June 1991 | 18 January 1993 | 1 year, 211 days | P. V. Narasimha Rao | Indian National Congress | ||
29 | Satish Sharma (Independent Charge) |
18 January 1993 | 16 May 1996 | 3 years, 119 days | ||||
30 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | 16 May 1996 | 1 June 1996 | 16 days | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
31 | H. D. Deve Gowda | 1 June 1996 | 21 April 1997 | 324 days | H. D. Deve Gowda | Janata Dal | ||
32 | Inder Kumar Gujral | 21 April 1997 | 9 June 1997 | 49 days | Inder Kumar Gujral | |||
33 | Janeshwar Mishra | 9 June 1997 | 19 March 1998 | 283 days | Samajwadi Party | |||
34 | Vazhappady K. Ramamurthy | 19 March 1998 | 13 October 1999 | 1 year, 208 days | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | Tamizhaga Rajiv Congress | ||
35 | Ram Naik | 13 October 1999 | 22 May 2004 | 4 years, 222 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | |||
36 | Mani Shankar Aiyar | 22 May 2004 | 29 January 2006 | 1 year, 252 days | Manmohan Singh | Indian National Congress | ||
37 | Murli Deora | 29 January 2006 | 19 January 2011 | 4 years, 355 days | ||||
38 | Jaipal Reddy | 19 January 2011 | 28 October 2012 | 1 year, 283 days | ||||
39 | Veerappa Moily | 28 October 2012 | 26 May 2014 | 1 year, 210 days | ||||
40 | Dharmendra Pradhan (Independent Charge till 3-Sep-2017) |
26 May 2014 | 7 July 2021 | 7 years, 42 days | Narendra Modi | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
41 | Hardeep Singh Puri | 7 July 2021 | Incumbent | 1 year, 280 days |
Minister of State | Political party | Term | Days | ||
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Dinsha Patel | Indian National Congress | 2006 | 2009 | ||
Jitin Prasada | 26 May 2009 | 18 Jan 2011 | 602 days | ||
Ratanjit Pratap Narain Singh | 19 Jan 2011 | 28 Oct 2012 | 648 days | ||
Panabaka Lakshmi | 28 Oct 2012 | 17 May 2014 | 566 days | ||
Rameswar Teli | Bharatiya Janata Party | 7 July 2021 | Incumbent | 645 days |
The ministry has ownership over these eight central public sector undertakings of the government of India.
Main article: Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology |
RGIPT is a training and education institute that gives technical and management training to the petroleum industry and was formally opened in July 2008. The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MOP&NG), Government of India founded the institute through an Act of Parliament ("Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology Act 2007").[4]
Main article: Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy |
Main article: Pandit Deendayal Energy University |
On 20 February 2015, a group of seven Indian petroleum ministry and oil firm employees were arrested for allegedly stealing and leaking classified documents to energy companies in exchange for cash payments. The group stole, photocopied and leaked confidential oil ministry documents related to energy pricing and policy in exchange for undisclosed sums of money. They were apprehended when Delhi Police received a tip that the men were trying to break into offices at the ministry.[11]