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The Ministers responsible for the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in the Government of Bihar, India have been:
# | Portrait | Name | Term | Chief Minister | Party | |||
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1 | Anugrah Narayan Sinha | 2 April 1946 | 5 July 1957 | Shri Krishna Sinha | Indian National Congress | |||
2 | Mohammad Yunus | |||||||
3 | Dr. B P Jawahar | Mahamaya Prasad Sinha | ||||||
4 | Abdul Gafoor | 2 July 1973 | 27 September 1973 | Abdul Gafoor | Indian National Congress | |||
5 | Kedar Pandey | 27 September 1973 | 11 April 1975 | Abdul Gafoor | ||||
6 | Bindeshwari Dubey [1] | 11 April 1975 | 30 April 1977 | Jagannath Mishra | ||||
7 | Jabir Husain | 24 June 1977 | 21 April 1979 | Karpoori Thakur | Janata Party | |||
8 | Braj Kishor Singh | 9 March 1982 | 11 April 1985 | Chandra Shekhar Singh | Indian National Congress | |||
9 | Dinesh Singh [2] | 12 March 1985 | 14 February 1988 | Bindeshwari Dubey | ||||
10 | Umeshwar Prasad Verma | |||||||
11 | Mahaveer Prasad | 25 July 1997 | 9 March 1999 | Rabri Devi | Rashtriya Janata Dal | |||
12 | Udit Rai | 9 March 1999 | 2 March 2000 | |||||
13 | Shakeel Ahmad | 2 April 2000 | May 2004 | Indian National Congress | ||||
14 | Chandra Mohan Rai | 24 November 2005 | 13 April 2008 | 2 years, 141 days | Nitish Kumar | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
15 | Nand Kishore Yadav | 13 April 2008 | 24 November 2010 | 2 years, 225 days | ||||
16 | Ashwini Kumar Choubey | 26 November 2010 | 16 June 2013 | 2 years, 202 days | ||||
17 | Tej Pratap Yadav | 20 November 2015 | 26 July 2017 | 1 year, 248 days | Nitish Kumar | Rashtriya Janata Dal | ||
18 | Mangal Pandey | 29 July 2017 | 9 August 2022 | 5 years, 11 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | |||
19 | Tejashwi Yadav | 10 August 2022 | Incumbent | 2 years, 81 days | Rashtriya Janata Dal |
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