List of Indian Railway Ministers

Below is a list of the Union Government Ministers of Railways over the years in independent India. Also included further below is the list of who presented the railway budget for each year.
Note: These lists are incomplete, and some of the dates are uncertain. Unfortunately, there is no readily available source for reliable information on this topic — reference will have to be made to archives of Indian newspapers or magazines for the most accurate information. Corrections or additions are most welcome.

 List of railway ministers

 

Railway Ministers
Name	Portrait	Term	Party	Notes
John Mathai		1947	Congress	(not formally designated the Minister for Railways) presents the first Railway budget for independent India
N. Gopalaswamy Ayyangar		1948–1952	Congress	worked on consolidating the various railways into the zonal railways
Lal Bahadur Shastri		1952–1956	Congress	Resigned in 1956 taking responsibility for three fatal railway accidents
Jagjivan Ram		1956–1962	Congress
Sardar Swaran Singh		1962	Congress
Ram Subhag Singh & Kengal Hanumanthaiah		1967	Congress	Some sources suggest that Kengal Hanumanthaiah was Railway Minister later, in 1971-72. Ram Subhag Singh is also mentioned in some sources as a railway minister in 1969.
C. M. Poonacha		1968	Congress	In Some source his tenure was 1966-68.
Panampilly Govinda Menon		1969	Congress
Gulzari Lal Nanda		1970–1971	Congress	Kengal Hanumanthaiah may have been the Railway Minister briefly in 1971
T. A. Pai		1972–1973	Congress
Lalit Narayan Mishra		1973–1975	Congress	killed by a bomb blast 2-Jan-1975, at the opening of a railway line in Samastipur
Kamalpati Tripathi		1975–1977	Congress
Prof. Madhu Dandavate		1977–1979	Janta Party
Kedar Pandey		1980–1981	Congress
A. B. A. Ghani Khan Chowdhury		(1981?) 1982–1984	Congress
Bansi Lal		1984	Congress	A brief stint during a reorganization of some ministries and government departments
Madhav Rao Scindia		1984–1989	Congress
George Fernandes		1989–1990	National Front
Janeshwar Mishra		1990–1991		Very short tenure .
C. K. Jaffer Sheriff		1991–1995	Congress
Atal Bihari Vajpayee		1996	BJP	Short term in 13 day BJP govt where he was also the Prime minister
Ram Vilas Paswan		1996–1998	LJP
Nitish Kumar		1998–1999	JDU
Mamata Banerjee		1999–2000	TMC	Mamata Banerjee became the first women Railway Minister of India.
Nitish Kumar		2001–2004	JDU
Laloo Prasad Yadav		2004–2009	RJD
Mamata Banerjee		2009–2011	TMC	Mamata Banerjee resigned from the Railway Ministry on 19 May 2011, after she became the Chief Minister of West Bengal.
Manmohan Singh		2011	INC	Manmohan Singh, briefly, who held the Railways portfolio along with being PM,after the resign of Mamata Banerjee.
Dinesh Trivedi		12 July 2011–14 March 2012	TMC	He was forced to resign on 14/3/2012 ,and Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee asked the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh to replace Dinesh Trivedi with Mukul Roy, as India's next Minister of Railways , on 14 March 2012. This happened after Dinesh Trivedi increased fare across board in his Railway Budget for the fiscal year 2012–13.
Mukul Roy		20 March 2012 – 21 September 2012	TMC	Mukul Roy and other five ministers of TMC resigned on September 21,2012 as TMC chief and Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee withdraws support to the UPA 2 Government due to Price rice in Diesel,Petrol and UPA's decision on 51% FDI on retail .[1]
C. P. Joshi		22 September 2012 –28 october 2012	INC
Pawan bansal		29 october 2012-present	Congress