List of office-holders

in the Government
of India

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

Constitutional Office-Holders
 Office Name Portrait Since

25 July
President Ram Nath Kovind
2017[1]

Vice President and ex-officio Chairperson of the 11 August

Venkaiah Naidu
Rajya Sabha 2017[2]

26 May
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
2014[3]

24 April
Chief Justice N. V. Ramana
2021[4]

19 June
Speaker of the Lok Sabha Om Birla
2019[5]

13th April
Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra
2021[6]

Girish Chandra 8 August

Comptroller and Auditor General
Murmu 2020

Chairperson of the Union Public Service Pradeep Kumar 07 August

Commission Joshi 2020[7]

Attorney General K. K. Venugopal 30 June 2017

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

Subrahmanyam
Minister of External Affairs 30 May 2019
Jaishankar

Minister of Agriculture and Farmers'

Narendra Singh Tomar 30 May 2019
Welfare

Minister of Education Ramesh Pokhriyal 31 May 2019

3 September
Minister of Railways Piyush Goyal
2017

Minister of Law and Justice Ravi Shankar Prasad 5 July 2016

 Minister of Information and Prakash Javadekar 31 May 2019
Broadcasting

Bureaucrats
 Office Name Portrait Since

National Security Advisor Ajit Doval 30 May 2014

Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba 30 August 2019[8]

Principal Secretary to the Prime

Pramod Kumar Misra 11 September 2019
Minister

Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla 22 August 2019[9]

Finance Secretary T. V. Somanathan 28 April 2021[10]

Defence Secretary Ajay Kumar 23 August 2019[11]

Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla 29 January 2020[12]

Secretary General of the Lok Sabha Utpal Kumar Singh 30 November 2020

Secretary General of the Rajya 1 September

Desh Deepak Verma
Sabha 2017[13]

31 December
Chairperson of the Railway Board Suneet Sharma
2020[14]
 Solicitor General Tushar Mehta 10 October 2018

Principal Scientific Adviser K. VijayRaghavan 3 April 2018[15]

Krishnamurthy 7 December
Chief Economic Adviser
Subramanian 2018[16]

Heads of statutory commissions

 Office Name Portrait Since

Chairperson of the National Human Rights Arun Kumar 2 June

Commission Mishra 2021[17]

Chairperson of the National Commission for Syed Ghayorul 27 May

Minorities Hasan Rizvi 2017[18]

Chairperson of the National Commission for 18 February

Vijay Sampla
Scheduled Castes 2021[19]

Chairperson of the National Commission for 18 February

Harsh Chouhan
Scheduled Tribes 2021[20]

Chairperson of the National Commission for Bhagwan Lal 4 March

Backward Classes Sahni 2019[21]

Chairperson of the National Commission for 7 August

Rekha Sharma
Women 2018[22]

Chairperson of the National Commission for

Priyank Kanungo
Protection of Child Rights

Chairperson of the Central Administrative L. Narasimha

1 July 2018[23]
Tribunal Reddy

24 April
Chairperson of the Central Vigilance Commission Sanjay Kothari
2020[24]

Chairperson of the Central Information Yashvardhan 7 November

Commission Kumar Sinha 2020[25]

Chairperson of the Atomic Energy Commission K. N. Vyas

14 January
Director of the Department of Space K. Sivan
2018

Chairperson of the University Grants Commission D. P. Singh

Chairperson of the Central Water Commission Narendra Kumar

Director of the Space Applications Centre D. K. Das

Chairperson of the National Forest Commission B. N. Kirpal

 Ashok Kumar
Chairperson of the Competition Commission
Gupta

Chairperson of the National Council for

Transgender Persons

Heads of financial bodies

 Office Name Since

Chairperson of the 15th Finance Commission of 27 November

N. K. Singh
India 2017

12 December
Governor, of the Reserve Bank of India Shaktikanta Das
2018[26]

Chairperson of the Securities and Exchange Board 1 March

Ajay Tyagi, IAS
of India 2017[27]

Chairperson of the Insurance Regulatory and 2 May

Subhash Chandra Khuntia
Development Authority 2018[28]

4 February
Chairperson of the 7th Pay Commission Ashok Kumar Mathur
2014

Chairperson of the Small Industries Development

Muhammad Mustafa August 2017
Bank

Chairperson of the Company Law Board Mahesh Kumar Mittal

Chairperson and Managing Director of the Export-

David Rasquinha
Import Bank

Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of the

Sarada Kumar Hota
National Housing Bank

Chairperson of the National Bank for Agriculture and

Govindarajulu Chinthala
Rural Development

Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of the [29]

Emandi Sankara Rao
Industrial Finance Corporation

Chairperson of the National Stock Exchange Girish Chandra Chaturvedi [30]

[31]
Chairperson of the Bombay Stock Exchange Vikramajit Sen

7 October
Chairperson of the State Bank of India Dinesh Kumar Khara [32]
2020[33]
[34]
Chairperson of the Industrial Development Bank Mahesh Kumar Jain

Chairperson of the Life Insurance Corporation M. R. Kumar [35]

Jagannath Biddyadhar 1 June

Chairperson of the Central Board of Direct Taxes
Mohapatra (Acting) 2021[36]

Chairperson of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes M. Ajit Kumar 3 February

 and Customs 2020[37]

President of the Federation of Indian Chambers of 31 December

Uday Shankar
Commerce and Industry 2020[38]

Chairperson of the Pension Fund Regulatory and Supramita [39]

Development Authority Bandhopadhaya

3 June
President of the Confederation of Indian Industry Uday Kotak
2020[40]

Chairperson of the Competition Commission of 8 November

Ashok Kumar Gupta
India 2018[41]

President of the Associated Chambers of [42]

Sandeep Jajodia
Commerce and Industry

Chairperson of the National Statistical Commission Radha Binod Barman [43]

Director General of the Archaeological Survey Rakesh Tewari [44]

28 September
Chairperson of the Telecom Regulatory Authority P.D. Vaghela
2020[45]

Director of the Enforcement Directorate Karnal Singh [46]

Chief Managing Director of the Oil and Natural Gas [47]

Shashi Shanker
Corporation

Chairperson and Managing Director of the Gas [48]

B. C. Tripathi
Authority of India Limited
[49]
Chairperson of the Indian Oil Corporation Limited Sanjiv Singh

Chairperson and Managing Director of the Oil India [50]

Utpal Bora
Limited

Defence and Security

 Occupation Name Since

Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat 1 January 2020

Air Chief Marshal Rakesh Kumar 30 September

Chief of the Air Staff
Singh Bhadauria 2019

31 December
Chief of the Army Staff General Manoj Mukund Naravane
2019

Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Karambir Singh 31 May 2019

2 December
Chief of Integrated Defence Staff Vice Admiral R. Hari Kumar
2019

Director General of the Military

Lieutenant General K. G. Krishna
Intelligence

Director of the Intelligence Bureau Arvind Kumar, IPS 30 June 2019

Secretary of the Research and Analysis

Samant Goel, IPS 29 June 2019
Wing

Director of the Central Bureau of

Subodh Kumar Jaiswal, IPS 26 May 2021[51]
Investigation

Director General of the Border Security

Rakesh Asthana, IPS 29 July 2019[52]
Force

Director General of the Central Reserve

Kuldeep Singh, IPS 13 Jan 2020
Police Force

Director General of the Central Industrial

, IPS
Security Force

Director General of the Indo-Tibetan

S. S. Deswal, IPS
Border Police

Director General of the Sashastra Seema 30 September

Kumar Rajesh Chandra, IPS
Bal 2018[53]

Director General of the National Security

Shri M.A Ganapathy,[54] IPS 1 October 2020
Guard

Director General of the National

Yogesh Chander Modi, IPS
Investigation Agency

Director General of the National Disaster Shri S N Pradhan, IPS

Response Force
See also

Indian order of precedence

Gazetted Officer

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