List of office-holders in the Government of India

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This is a list of current office holder of various fields in Government of India.

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Constitutional Office-Holders

OfficeNamePortraitSince
President Droupadi Murmu Droupadi Murmu official portrait, 2022.jpg 25 July 2022 [1]
Vice President and ex-officio Chairperson, Rajya Sabha Jagdeep Dhankhar Shri JDhankhar.png 11 August 2022 [2]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Official Photograph of Prime Minister Narendra Modi Portrait.png 26 May 2014 [3]
Chief Justice Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud.jpg 9 November 2022
Speaker, Lok Sabha Om Birla Om Birla Member of Parliament Rajasthan India.jpg 19 June 2019 [4]
Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar CEC Rajiv Kumar.jpg 15 May 2022 [5]
Comptroller and Auditor General Girish Chandra Murmu Shri Girish Chandra Murmu, Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir (cropped).jpg 8 August 2020
Chairperson, Union Public Service Commission Dr. Manoj Soni 5 April 2022 [6]
Attorney General R. Venkataramani 1 Oct 2022

Cabinet Office-Holders

OfficeNamePortraitSince
Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah Union Minister for Home Affairs.jpg 30 May 2019
Minister of Finance Nirmala Sitharaman Nirmala Sitharaman (cropped).jpg 30 May 2019
Minister of Defence Rajnath Singh Rajnath.jpg 30 May 2019
Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in Vienna 2023 (cropped).jpg 30 May 2019
Minister of Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw Minister.jpg 7 July 2021

Important office holders

OfficeNamePortraitSince
National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, IPS Ajit Doval 2014.jpg 30 May 2014
Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba, IAS Shri Rajiv Gauba.jpg 30 August 2019 [7]
Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister Pramod Kumar Mishra, IAS Dr. P K Mishra (Principal Secretary to PM) India.jpg 11 September 2019
Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla, IAS The Secretary, Ministry of Power, Shri Ajay Kumar Bhalla in New Delhi on May 31, 2019 (cropped).jpg 22 August 2019 [8]
Finance Secretary T. V. Somanathan, IAS28 April 2021 [9]
Defence Secretary Girdhar Aramane IAS1 November 2022 [10]
Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri,IFS15 July 2024 [11]
Law Secretary Vacant
Personnel Secretary (India) Vacant
Secretary General, Lok Sabha Utpal Kumar Singh, IAS30 November 2020
Secretary General, Rajya Sabha Pramod Chandra Mody, IRS (IT)12 November 2021 [12]
Secretary General, Supreme Court of India Atul M. Kurhekar3 August 2023
Chairperson, Railway Board Jaya Varma Sinha, IRTS 1 September 2023
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta 10 October 2018
Principal Scientific Adviser Ajay K. Sood Ajay-Kumar-Sood-FRS.jpg 3 April 2022 [13]
Chief Economic Adviser V Anantha Nageswaran 28 January 2022 [14]

Heads of commissions

OfficeNamePortraitSince
Chairperson, National Human Rights Commission Vijaya Bharathi Sayan2 June 2024 [15]
Chairperson, National Commission for Minorities Iqbal Singh Lalpura 9 September 2021 [16]
Chairperson, National Commission for Scheduled Castes Kishor Makwana9 March 2024 [17]
Chairperson, National Commission for Scheduled Tribes Antar Singh Arya9 March 2024 [18]
Chairperson, National Commission for Backward Classes Hansraj Gangaram Ahir 5 December 2022 [19]
Chairperson, National Commission for Women Rekha Sharma 7 August 2021 [20]
Chairperson, National Commission for Protection of Child Rights Priyank Kanungo
Chairperson, Central Administrative Tribunal Justice Ranjit More30 July 2022 [21]
Chairperson, Central Vigilance Commission Praveen Kumar Srivastava29 May 2023 [22]
Chairperson, Central Information Commission Heeralal Samariya6 November 2023 [23]
Chairperson, Atomic Energy Commission Dr. Ajit Kumar Mohanty1 May 2023 [24]
Secretary, Department of Space S. Somanath

S. Somanath, Director of VSSC, ISRO, speaks during the Heads of Agency Plenary of the 70th International Astronautical Congress (cropped).jpg

15 January 2022 [25]
Chairperson, University Grants Commission M. Jagadesh Kumar 4 February 2022 [26]
Chairperson, Competition Commission of India Ravneet Kaur23 May 2023 [27]
Chairperson, Central Water Commission Khushvinder Vohra
Chairperson, National Forest Commission B. N. Kirpal Justice B.N. Kirpal.jpg
Chairperson, National Council for Transgender Persons Laxmi Narayan Tripathi27 August 2020 [28]

Heads of financial bodies

OfficeNameSince
Chairperson, 16th Finance Commission of India Arvind Panagariya 16 January 2024
Governor, Reserve Bank of India Shaktikanta Das 12 December 2018 [29]
Chairperson, Securities and Exchange Board of India Madhabi Puri Buch 1 March 2022
Chairperson, Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority Debasish Panda12 March 2022 [30]
Chairperson, 7th Pay Commission Ashok Kumar Mathur 4 February 2014
Chairperson, Small Industries Development Bank Manoj Mittal19 April 2024
Chairperson, Company Law Board Chief Justice (Retd) Ramalingam Sudhakar
Chairperson and managing director, Export-Import Bank Harsha Bhupendra Bangari7 September 2021 [31]
CEO & MD, National Housing Bank Sanjay Shukla10 April 2024
Chairperson, National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development Shaji K V
CEO & MD, Industrial Finance Corporation Vacant
Chairperson, National Stock Exchange Girish Chandra Chaturvedi [32]
Chairperson, Bombay Stock Exchange Pramod Agrawal16 January 2024
Chairperson, State Bank of India Challa Sreenivasulu Setty 28 August 2024
Chairperson, Industrial Development Bank Rakesh Sharma [33]
Chairperson, Life Insurance Corporation Siddharth Mohanty
Chairperson, Central Board of Direct Taxes Ravi Agarwal (IRS-IT) 1 July 2024
Chairperson, Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs Sanjay Kumar Agarwal (IRS-Customs & Central Excise)5 August 2023
President, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Anish Shah10 December 2023
Chairperson, Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority Deepak Mohanty 20 March 2023 [34]
President, Confederation of Indian Industry R Dinesh25 May 2023 [35]
President, Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry Sanjay Nayar
Chairperson, National Statistical Commission Rajeeva Laxman Karandikar 1 December 2022 [36]
Director General, Archaeological Survey of India Yadubir Singh Rawat8 December 2023 [37]
Chairperson, Telecom Regulatory Authority Anil Kumar Lahoti1 February 2024
Director, Enforcement Directorate Rahul Navin16 September 2023 [38]
Chief Managing Director, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Arun Kumar Singh
Chairperson and managing director, Gas Authority of India Limited Sandeep Kumar Gupta1 September 2022
Chairperson, Indian Oil Corporation Limited Shrikant Madhav Vaidya [39]
Chairperson and managing director, Oil India Limited Ranjit Rath1 July 2022 [40]

Defence and Security

OccupationNameFrom year
Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan 30 September 2022
Chief, Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari 30 September 2021 [41]
Chief, Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi 30 June 2024
Chief, Naval Staff Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi 1 May 2024
Chief of Integrated Defence Staff (Vice Chief of Defence Staff) Lieutenant general JP Mathew1 May 2023
Director General, Defence Intelligence Agency Lieutenant General Dinesh Singh Rana1 April 2023 [42]
Director, Intelligence Bureau Tapan Deka, IPS 1 July 2022 [43]
Secretary, Research and Analysis Wing Ravi Sinha, IPS30 June 2023
Director, Central Bureau of Investigation Praveen Sood, IPS 25 May 2023 [44]
Director General, Border Security Force Nitin Agarwal, IPS 12 June 2023 [45]
Director General, Central Reserve Police Force Anish Dayal Singh, IPS 1 January 2024
Director General, Central Industrial Security Force Nina Singh, IPS 1 September 2023 [46]
Director General, Indo-Tibetan Border Police Rahul Rasgotra, IPS 1 January 2024 [47]
Director General, Sashastra Seema Bal Daljit Singh Chaudhary, IPS 1 February 2024 [48]
Director General, National Security Guard Nalin Prabhat,IPS [49] 1 May 2024
Director General, National Investigation Agency Sadanand Date, IPS 1 April 2024
Director General, National Disaster Response Force Piyush Anand, IPS 1 April 2024

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