List of office-holders in the Government of India

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

Constitutional Office-Holders

Office	Name	Portrait	Since	Ref.
President of the Republic of India	Droupadi Murmu		25 July 2022	[1]
Vice President of the Republic of India	Jagdeep Dhankhar		11 August 2022	[2]
Prime Minister of the Republic of India	Narendra Modi		26 May 2014	[3]
Chief Justice of the Republic of India	D. Y. Chandrachud		9 November 2022
Speaker of Lok Sabha	Om Birla		19 June 2019	[4]
Chief Election Commissioner	Rajiv Kumar		15 May 2022[5]
Comptroller and Auditor General	Girish Chandra Murmu		8 August 2020
Chairperson of Union Public Service Commission	Preeti Sudan		1 August 2024
Attorney General	R. Venkataramani		1 Oct 2022

Cabinet Office-Holders

Office	Name	Portrait	Since
Minister of Home Affairs	Amit Shah		30 May 2019
Minister of Finance	Nirmala Sitharaman		30 May 2019
Minister of Defence	Rajnath Singh		30 May 2019
Minister of External Affairs	Subrahmanyam Jaishankar		30 May 2019
Minister of Railways	Ashwini Vaishnaw		7 July 2021

Important office holders

Office	Name	Portrait	Since
National Security Advisor	Ajit Doval, IPS		30 May 2014
Cabinet Secretary	T.V. Somanathan, IAS		30 August 2024[6]
Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister	Pramod Kumar Mishra, IAS		11 September 2019
Home Secretary	Govind Mohan,IAS		22 August 2024[7]
Finance Secretary	Tuhin Kanta Pandey,IAS		7 September 2024[8]
Defence Secretary	Rajesh Kumar Singh,IAS		1 November 2024[9]
Foreign Secretary	Vikram Misri,IFS		15 July 2024[10]
Law Secretary	Vacant
Secretary General, Lok Sabha	Utpal Kumar Singh, IAS		30 November 2020
Secretary General, Rajya Sabha	Pramod Chandra Mody, IRS (IT)		12 November 2021[11]
Secretary General, Supreme Court of India	Atul M. Kurhekar		3 August 2023
Chairperson, Railway Board	Satish Kumar,IRSME		1 September 2024
Solicitor General	Tushar Mehta		10 October 2018
Principal Scientific Adviser	Ajay K. Sood		3 April 2022[12]
Chief Economic Adviser	V Anantha Nageswaran		28 January 2022[13]

Heads of commissions

Office	Name	Portrait	Since
Chairperson, National Human Rights Commission	Vijaya Bharathi Sayani		2 June 2024[14]
Chairperson, National Commission for Minorities	Iqbal Singh Lalpura		9 September 2021[15]
Chairperson, National Commission for Scheduled Castes	Kishor Makwana		9 March 2024[16]
Chairperson, National Commission for Scheduled Tribes	Antar Singh Arya		9 March 2024[17]
Chairperson, National Commission for Backward Classes	Hansraj Gangaram Ahir		5 December 2022 [18]
Chairperson, National Commission for Women	Vijaya Rahatkar		22 October 2024[19]
Chairperson, National Commission for Protection of Child Rights	Priyank Kanungo
Chairperson, Central Administrative Tribunal	Justice Ranjit More		30 July 2022[20]
Chairperson, Central Vigilance Commission	Praveen Kumar Srivastava		29 May 2023[21]
Chairperson, Central Information Commission	Heeralal Samariya		6 November 2023[22]
Chairperson, Atomic Energy Commission	Dr. Ajit Kumar Mohanty		1 May 2023[23]
Secretary, Department of Space	S. Somanath		15 January 2022[24]
Chairperson, University Grants Commission	M. Jagadesh Kumar		4 February 2022[25]
Chairperson, Competition Commission of India	Ravneet Kaur		23 May 2023[26]
Chairperson, Central Water Commission	Khushvinder Vohra
Chairperson, National Forest Commission	B. N. Kirpal
Chairperson, National Council for Transgender Persons	Laxmi Narayan Tripathi		27 August 2020[27]

Heads of financial bodies

Office	Name	Since
Chairperson, 16th Finance Commission of India	Arvind Panagariya	16 January 2024
Governor, Reserve Bank of India	Shaktikanta Das	12 December 2018[28]
Chairperson, Securities and Exchange Board of India	Madhabi Puri Buch	1 March 2022
Chairperson, Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority	Debasish Panda	12 March 2022[29]
Chairperson, 7th Pay Commission	Ashok Kumar Mathur	4 February 2014
Chairperson, Small Industries Development Bank	Manoj Mittal	19 April 2024
Chairperson, Company Law Board	Chief Justice (Retd) Ramalingam Sudhakar
Chairperson and managing director, Export-Import Bank	Harsha Bhupendra Bangari	7 September 2021[30]
CEO & MD, National Housing Bank	Sanjay Shukla	10 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	[31]
Chairperson, Bombay Stock Exchange	Pramod Agrawal	16 January 2024
Chairperson, State Bank of India	Challa Sreenivasulu Setty	28 August 2024
Chairperson, Industrial Development Bank	Rakesh Sharma	[32]
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 Shah	10 December 2023
Chairperson, Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority	Deepak Mohanty	20 March 2023[33]
President, Confederation of Indian Industry	R Dinesh	25 May 2023[34]
President, Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry	Sanjay Nayar
Chairperson, National Statistical Commission	Rajeeva Laxman Karandikar	1 December 2022[35]
Director General, Archaeological Survey of India	Yadubir Singh Rawat	8 December 2023[36]
Director General,Geological Survey of India	Asit Saha	1 August 2024[37]
Chairperson, Telecom Regulatory Authority	Anil Kumar Lahoti	1 February 2024
Director, Enforcement Directorate	Rahul Navin	16 September 2023[38]
Chief Managing Director, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation	Arun Kumar Singh	7 December 2022
Chairperson and managing director, Gas Authority of India Limited	Sandeep Kumar Gupta	1 September 2022
Chairperson, Indian Oil Corporation Limited	Shrikant Madhav Vaidya	1 July 2020
Chairperson and managing director, Oil India Limited	Ranjit Rath	1 July 2022[39]

Defence and Security

Occupation	Name	From year
Chief of Defence Staff	General Anil Chauhan	30 September 2022
Chief, Air Staff	Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh	30 September 2024
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 Johnson P Mathew	1 May 2023
Director General, Defence Intelligence Agency	Lieutenant General Dinesh Singh Rana	1 April 2023[40]
Director, Intelligence Bureau	Tapan Deka, IPS	1 July 2022[41]
Secretary, Research and Analysis Wing	Ravi Sinha, IPS	30 June 2023
Director, Central Bureau of Investigation	Praveen Sood, IPS	25 May 2023[42]
Director General, Border Security Force	Daljit Singh Chaudhary, IPS	28 August 2024
Director General, Central Reserve Police Force	Anish Dayal Singh, IPS	1 January 2024
Director General, Central Industrial Security Force	Rajwinder Singh Bhatti, IPS	28 August 2024
Director General, Indo-Tibetan Border Police	Rahul Rasgotra, IPS	1 January 2024[43]
Director General, Sashastra Seema Bal	Amrit Mohan Prasad, IPS	15 September 2024[44]
Director General, National Security Guard	B.Srinivasan,IPS	28 August 2024
Director General, National Investigation Agency	Sadanand Date, IPS	1 April 2024
Director General, National Disaster Response Force	Piyush Anand, IPS	1 April 2024

See also

• Indian order of precedence

Notes

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