Who is the first railway minister of India?

Who is the first railway minister of india?

• Answer:

  1947 (Nov.) John Mathai (not formally designated the Minister for Railways) presents the first Railway budget for independent India 1948-1952 N Gopalaswamy Ayyangar; worked on consolidating the various railways into the zonal railways 1952-1956 Lal Bahadur Shastri; resigned in 1956 taking responsibility for three fatal railway accidents 1956-1962 Jagjivan Ram 1962 Sardar Swaran Singh 1967?? Kengal Hanumanthaiah (Note: Some sources suggest he was Railway Minister later, in 1971). Ram Sew Singh is also mentioned in some sources as a railway minister in 1966-1968, he may not have been a Cabinet minister for railways. 1968 Cheppudira Muthana Poonacha 1969 Govinda Menon Panampilly 1970-1971 Gulzari Lal Nanda Note: Kengal Hanumanthaiah may have been the Railway Minister briefly in 1971. 1972-1973 Tonse Ananth Pai 1973-1975 Lalit Narayan Mishra; killed by a bomb blast 2-Jan-1975, at the opening of a railway line in Samastipur. 1975-1977 Kamlapati Tripathi (again briefly in 1980?) 1977-1979 Prof. Madhu Dandavate 1980-1981 Kedar Pandey (Kamlapathi Tripathi briefly in 1980) (1981?) 1982-1984 ABA Ghani Khan Chowdhury. 1984 Bansi Lal; his was a brief stint during a reorganization of some ministries and government departments (1985?) 1984-1989 Madhav Rao Scindia 1989-1990 George Fernandes 1990-1991 Jnaneshwar Mishra; very short tenure 1991-1995 C K Jaffer Sharief 1995-1996 Suresh Kalmadi (briefly), followed by Atal Behari Vajpayee also briefly, who held the Railways portfolio along with being PM. 1996-1998 Ram Vilas Paswan 1998-1999 Nitish Kumar 2000 Mamata Banerjee 2001-2004 Nitish Kumar 2004-2009 Laloo Prasad Yadav 2009- Mamata Banerjee