List of Indian Railway Ministers

Years	Railway Minister
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

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