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Jurisdiction | Government of India |
Headquarters | Ministry of Steel Udyog Bhawan Dr. Maulana Azad Road New Delhi,110011 New Delhi |
Annual budget | ₹70.15 crore (US$8.8 million) (2023-24 est.)[1] |
Ministers responsible |
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Agency executive |
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Website | steel.gov.in |
The Ministry of Steel is an executive branch agency of the Government of India that is responsible for formulating all policies regarding steel production, distribution and pricing in India.[2] As of July 2021, the ministry is headed by a Secretary Rank IAS officer, who is its administrative head, while the political head is a minister of cabinet rank, Jyotiraditya Scindia, assisted by a Minister of State, Faggan Singh Kulaste.
The members of the Steel Consumers Council[3][4][5][6][7][8][9] are nominated by the Minister of Steel. The tenure of the council was initially fixed for two years, and it was re-constituted on 25 February 2010. The term of the present council is up to 29 February 2012.[10][11]
# | Portrait | Name | Term of office | Prime Minister | Party | |||
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1 | Swaran Singh | 17 April 1957 | 10 April 1962 | 4 years, 358 days | Jawaharlal Nehru Gulzarilal Nanda |
Indian National Congress | ||
2 | Chidambaram Subramaniam | 10 April 1962 | 9 June 1964 | 2 years, 60 days | ||||
3 | N. Sanjeeva Reddy | 9 June 1964 | 24 January 1966 | 1 year, 229 days | Lal Bahadur Shastri | |||
4 | Tribhuvan Narain Singh | 29 January 1966 | 13 March 1967 | 1 year, 43 days | Indira Gandhi | |||
5 | Marri Chenna Reddy | 13 March 1967 | 24 April 1968 | 1 year, 42 days | ||||
6 | Prakash Chandra Sethi | 24 April 1968 | 14 February 1969 | 296 days | ||||
7 | C. M. Poonacha | 14 February 1969 | 15 November 1969 | 274 days | ||||
(1) | Swaran Singh | 15 November 1969 | 27 June 1970 | 224 days | ||||
8 | Bali Ram Bhagat | 27 June 1970 | 18 March 1971 | 264 days | ||||
9 | Mohan Kumaramangalam | 18 March 1971 | 31 May 1973 | 2 years, 74 days | ||||
10 | Indira Gandhi | 6 June 1973 | 23 July 1973 | 47 days | ||||
11 | T. A. Pai | 23 July 1973 | 11 January 1974 | 172 days | ||||
12 | Keshav Dev Malviya | 11 January 1974 | 10 October 1974 | 272 days | ||||
13 | Chandrajit Yadav (MoS) |
10 October 1974 | 24 March 1977 | 2 years, 165 days | ||||
14 | Biju Patnaik | 26 March 1977 | 15 July 1979 | 2 years, 111 days | Morarji Desai | Janata Party | ||
30 July 1979 | 14 January 1980 | 168 days | Charan Singh | Janata Party (Secular) | ||||
15 | Pranab Mukherjee | 16 January 1980 | 15 January 1982 | 1 year, 364 days | Indira Gandhi | Indian National Congress | ||
16 | N. D. Tiwari | 15 January 1982 | 14 February 1983 | 1 year, 30 days | ||||
17 | N. K. P. Salve (Independent Charge) |
14 February 1983 | 31 December 1984 | 1 year, 321 days | Indira Gandhi Rajiv Gandhi | |||
18 | Vasant Sathe | 31 December 1984 | 25 September 1985 | 268 days | Rajiv Gandhi | |||
19 | K. C. Pant | 25 September 1985 | 12 April 1987 | 1 year, 199 days | ||||
(18) | Vasant Sathe | 12 April 1987 | 25 July 1987 | 104 days | ||||
20 | Makhan Lal Fotedar | 25 July 1987 | 2 December 1989 | 2 years, 130 days | ||||
21 | Dinesh Goswami | 6 December 1989 | 10 November 1990 | 339 days | V. P. Singh | Asom Gana Parishad | ||
22 | Ashoke Kumar Sen | 21 November 1990 | 21 June 1991 | 212 days | Chandra Shekhar | Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) | ||
23 | Santosh Mohan Dev | 21 June 1991 | 16 May 1996 | 4 years, 330 days | P. V. Narasimha Rao | Indian National Congress | ||
24 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | 16 May 1996 | 1 June 1996 | 16 days | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
25 | H. D. Deve Gowda | 1 June 1996 | 29 June 1996 | 28 days | Deve Gowda | Janata Dal | ||
26 | Birendra Prasad Baishya | 29 June 1996 | 19 March 1998 | 1 year, 263 days | Deve Gowda I. K. Gujral |
Asom Gana Parishad | ||
27 | Naveen Patnaik | 19 March 1998 | 13 October 1999 | 1 year, 208 days | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | Biju Janata Dal | ||
28 | Dilip Ray (Independent Charge) |
13 October 1999 | 27 May 2000 | 227 days | ||||
29 | Braja Kishore Tripathy (Independent Charge) |
27 May 2000 | 22 May 2004 | 3 years, 361 days | ||||
30 | Ram Vilas Paswan | 22 May 2004 | 22 May 2009 | 5 years, 0 days | Manmohan Singh | Lok Janshakti Party | ||
31 | Virbhadra Singh | 28 May 2009 | 19 January 2011 | 1 year, 236 days | Indian National Congress | |||
32 | Beni Prasad Verma (Independent Charge till 12-Jul-2011) |
19 January 2011 | 26 May 2014 | 3 years, 127 days | ||||
33 | Narendra Singh Tomar | 26 May 2014 | 5 July 2016 | 2 years, 40 days | Narendra Modi | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
34 | Birender Singh | 5 July 2016 | 30 May 2019 | 2 years, 329 days | ||||
35 | Dharmendra Pradhan | 30 May 2019 | 7 July 2021 | 2 years, 38 days | ||||
36 | Ramchandra Prasad Singh | 7 July 2021 | 7 July 2022 | 1 year, 0 days | Janata Dal (United) | |||
37 | Jyotiraditya Scindia | 07 July 2022 | Incumbent | 344 days | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Minister of state | Portrait | Political party | Term | Days | ||
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Vishnudeo Sai | Bharatiya Janata Party | 26 May 2014 | 30 May 2019 | 5 years, 4 days | ||
Faggan Singh Kulaste | 30 May 2019 | Incumbent | 4 years, 17 days |