List of Railway Ministers of India

Sl No	Name	Tenure
1	John Mathai	15-08-1947 - 22-09-1948
2	N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar	22-09-1948 - 13-05-1952
3	Lal Bahadur Shastri	13-05-1952 - 07-12-1956
4	Jagjivan Ram	07-12-1956 - 10-04-1962
5	Swaran Singh	10-04-1962 - 21-09-1963
6	H. C. Dasappa	21-09-1963 - 08-06-1964
7	S. K. Patil	09-06-1964 - 12-03-1967
8	C. M. Poonacha	13-03-1967 - 14-02-1969
9	Ram Subhag Singh	14-02-1969 - 04-11-1969
10	Panampilly Govinda Menon	04-11-1969 - 18-02-1970
11	Gulzarilal Nanda	18-02-1970 - 17-03-1971
12	K. Hanumanthaiah	18-03-1971 - 22-07-1972
13	T. A. Pai	23-07-1972 - 04-02-1973
14	Lalit Narayan Mishra	05-02-1973 - 02-01-1975
15	Kamalapati Tripathi	11-02-1975 - 23-03-1977
16	Madhu Dandavate	26-03-1977 - 28-07-1979
17	T. A. Pai	30-07-1979 - 14-01-1980
18	Kamalapati Tripathi	14-01-1980 - 12-11-1980
19	Kedar Pandey	12-11-1980 - 14-01-1982
20	Prakash Chandra Sethi	15-01-1982 - 02-09-1982
21	A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury	02-09-1982 - 31-12-1984
22	Bansi Lal	31-12-1984 - 24-06-1986
23	Mohsina Kidwai	24-06-1986 - 21-10-1986
24	Madhavrao Scindia	22-10-1986 - 02-12-1989
25	George Fernandes	02-12-1989 - 10-11-1990
26	Janeshwar Mishra	21-11-1990 - 21-06-1991
27	C. K. Jaffer Sharief	21-06-1991 - 17-10-1995
28	Ram Vilas Paswan	01-06-1996 - 19-03-1998
29	Nitish Kumar	19-03-1998 - 05-08-1999
30	Ram Naik	06-08-1999 - 13-10-1999
31	Mamata Banerjee	13-10-1999 - 15-03-2001
32	Nitish Kumar	20-03-2001 - 22-05-2004
33	Lalu Prasad Yadav	22-05-2004 - 22-05-2009
34	Mamata Banerjee	22-05-2009 - 19-05-2011
35	Dinesh Trivedi	12-07-2011 - 19-03-2012
36	Mukul Roy	20-03-2012 - 22-09-2012
37	C. P. Joshi	22-09-2012 - 28-10-2012
38	Pawan Kumar Bansal	29-10-2012 - 10-05-2013
39	C. P. Joshi	13-05-2013 - 14-06-2013
40	Mallikarjun Kharge	17-06-2013 - 26-05-2014
41	D. V. Sadananda Gowda	26-05-2014 - 09-11-2014
42	Suresh Prabhu	09-11-2014 - 03-09-2017
43	Piyush Goyal	03-09-2017 - 07-07-2021
44	Ashwini Vaishnaw	07-07-2021 - Incumbent