Secretaries to Government of India: The position of Secretary to the Government of India is filled by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet. This individual acts as the administrative head of the Secretariat and serves as the ex-officio Chairman of the Civil Services Board, advising the minister of their respective department. Secretaries are responsible for providing assistance to ministers and updating cabinet members, the President, and the Vice President about significant departmental activities through a monthly summary.
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Secretaries are a critical part of the Central Staffing Scheme of the Government of India. The creation of these positions is under the purview of the Union Council of Ministers. Below is the updated list of Secretaries to the Government of India.
List of Secretaries to Government of India 2025
The table below outlines the Secretaries for various ministries in India:
| S.NO | Ministry | Designation | Secretary Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | President's Secretariat | Secretary to the President | Kapil Dev Tripathi |
| 2 | Vice President's Secretariat | Secretary to the Vice President | I. V. Subba Rao |
| 3 | Prime Minister's Office | Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister | Dr. P.K. Mishra |
| Prime Minister's Office | Special Secretary to the Prime Minister of India (Parliamentary Affairs) | A.K Gupta | |
| 4 | Cabinet Secretariat | Cabinet Secretary | Rajiv Gauba |
| Cabinet Secretariat | Secretary (Coordination) | Praveen K. Srivastava | |
| Cabinet Secretariat | Secretary (R&AW) | Samant Goel | |
| Cabinet Secretariat | Secretary (Security) | Sudhir Kumar Saxena | |
| 5 | Agriculture and Farmers Welfare | Secretary (Agriculture and Farmers Welfare) | Sanjay Agrawal |
| 6 | Agriculture and Farmers Welfare | Secretary (Agricultural Research and Education) | Dr. Trilochan Mohapatra |
| 7 | Atomic Energy | Secretary (Atomic Energy) and chairperson of the Atomic Energy Commission | K. N. Vyas |
| 8 | AYUSH | Secretary (AYUSH) | Rajesh Kotecha |
| 9 | Chemicals and Fertilizers | Secretary (Chemicals and Petrochemicals) | Yogendra Tripathi |
| 10 | Chemicals and Fertilizers | Secretary (Fertilizers) | Rajesh K. Chaturvedi |
| 11 | Chemicals and Fertilizers | Secretary (Pharmaceuticals) | Aparna Subramani |
| 12 | Civil Aviation | Secretary (Civil Aviation) | Rajiv Bansal |
| 13 | Coal | Secretary (Coal) | Anil Kumar Jain |
| 14 | Commerce and Industry | Secretary (Commerce) | B. V. R. Subrahmanyam |
| 15 | Commerce and Industry | Secretary (Industrial Policy and Promotion) | Anurag Jain |
| 16 | Communications | Secretary (Posts) | Vineet Pandey |
| 17 | Communications | Secretary to (Telecommunications) and chairperson, Telecoms Commission | K. Rajaraman |
| 18 | Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution | Secretary (Consumer Affairs) | Rohit K. Singh |
| 19 | Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution | Secretary (Food and Public Distribution) | Sudhanshu Pandey |
| 20 | Co-operation | Secretary (Co-operation) | Devendra K. Singh |
| 21 | Corporate Affairs | Secretary (Corporate Affairs) | Rajesh Verma |
| 22 | Culture | Secretary (Culture) | Govind Mohan |
| 23 | Defense | Defence Secretary | Ajay Kumar |
| Defense | Secretary (Defense Production) | Ajay Kumar | |
| Defense | Secretary (Defense Research and Development) and chairperson, DRDO | Dr. G. Satheesh Reddy | |
| Defense | Secretary (Ex-Servicemen Welfare) | B. Anand | |
| Defense | Secretary (Department of Military Affairs) and Chief of Defence Staff | - | |
| Development of North Eastern Region | Secretary (Development of North Eastern Region) | Lok Ranjan | |
| 24 | Earth Sciences | Secretary (Earth Sciences) and chairman, Earth Sciences Commission | M. Ravichandran |
| 25 | Education | Secretary (Higher Education) | K. Sanjay Murthy |
| Education | Secretary (School Education and Literacy) | Anita Karwal | |
| 25 | Electronics and Information Technology | Secretary (Electronics and Information Technology) | Ajay P. Sawhney |
| 26 | Environment, Forest and Climate Change | Secretary (Environment, Forest and Climate Change) | Leena Nandan |
| 27 | External Affairs | Foreign Secretary | Vinay Mohan Kwatra |
| External Affairs | Secretary (East) | Saurabh Kumar | |
| External Affairs | Secretary (West) | Sanjay Verma | |
| External Affairs | Secretary (CPV & OIA) | Ausaf Sayeed | |
| External Affairs | Secretary (Economic Relations) | Dammu Ravi | |
| 28 | Finance | Finance Secretary & Secretary (Expenditure) | T. V. Somanathan |
| Finance | Secretary (Economic Affairs) | Ajay Seth | |
| Finance | Secretary (Public Enterprises) | Ali Raza Rizvi | |
| Finance | Revenue Secretary | Tarun Bajaj | |
| Finance | Secretary (Investment and Public Asset Management) | Tuhin Kanti Pandey | |
| Finance | Secretary (Financial Services) | Debashish Panda | |
| 29 | Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying | Secretary (Animal Husbandry and Dairying) | Atul Chaturvedi |
| 30 | Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying | Secretary (Fisheries) | Jatindra N. Swain |
| 31 | Food Processing Industries | Secretary (Food Processing Industries) | Pushpa Subrahmanyam |
| 32 | Health and Family Welfare | Secretary to (Health and Family Welfare) | Rajesh Bhushan |
| Health and Family Welfare | Secretary (Health Research) | Balram Bhargava | |
| 33 | Heavy Industries | Secretary (Heavy Industry) | Arun Goel |
| 34 | Home Affairs | Home Secretary | Ajay Kumar Bhalla |
| Home Affairs | Secretary (Official Language) | Ansuli Arya | |
| Home Affairs | Secretary (Border Management) | Dharmendra S. Gangwar | |
| Home Affairs | Secretary (Inter-State Council Secretariat) | Anuradha Prasad | |
| 35 | Housing and Urban Affairs | Secretary (Housing and Urban Affairs) | Manoj Joshi |
| 36 | Information and Broadcasting | Secretary (Information and Broadcasting) | Apurva Chandra |
| 37 | Jal Shakti | Secretary (Drinking Water and Sanitation) | Vini Mahajan |
| Jal Shakti | Secretary (Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation) | Pankaj Kumar | |
| 38 | Labour and Employment | Secretary (Labour and Employment) | Sunil Barthwal |
| 39 | Law and Justice | Secretary (Justice) | Barun Mitra |
| Law and Justice | Secretary (Legal Affairs) | Anoop Kumar Mendiratta | |
| Law and Justice | Secretary (Legislative) | Reeta Vasistha | |
| 40 | Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises | Secretary (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises) | Bidyut B. Swain |
| 41 | Mines | Secretary (Mines) | Alok Tandon |
| 42 | Minority Affairs | Secretary (Minority Affairs) | Renuka Kumar |
| 43 | New and Renewable Energy | Secretary (New and Renewable Energy) | Indu Sekhar Chaturvedi |
| 44 | Panchayati Raj | Secretary (Panchayati Raj) | Sunil Kumar |
| 45 | Parliamentary Affairs | Secretary (Parliamentary Affairs) | Gyanesh Kumar |
| 46 | Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions | Secretary (Personnel and Training) | Pradeep K. Tripathi |
| 47 | Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions | Secretary (Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances) | V. Srinivas |
| 48 | Petroleum and Natural Gas | Secretary (Petroleum and Natural Gas) | M.M KUTTY |
| 49 | Planning | Secretary (Planning) | - |
| 50 | Ports, Shipping and Waterways | Secretary (Ports, Shipping and Waterways) | Sanjeev Ranjan |
| 51 | Power | Secretary (Power) | Alok Kumar |
| 52 | Ministry of Railway (Railway Board) | Secretary (ex-officio) | Vinay Kumar Tripathi |
| 53 | Road Transport and Highways | Secretary (Road Transport and Highways) | Aramane Giridhar |
| 54 | Rural Development | Secretary (Land Resources) | Ajay Tirkey |
| Rural Development | Secretary (Rural Development) | Nagendra Nath Sinha | |
| 55 | Science and Technology | Secretary (Biotechnology) | Dr. Rajesh S. Gokhale |
| Science and Technology | Secretary (Science and Technology) | Dr. Sribhari Chandrasekhar | |
| Science and Technology | Secretary (Scientific and Industrial Research) | Dr. Sekhar C. Mande | |
| 56 | Skill Development and Entrepreneurship | Secretary (Skill Development and Entrepreneurship) | Rajesh Aggarwal |
| 57 | Social Justice and Empowerment | Secretary (Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities) | Anjali Bhara |
| 58 | Secretary (Social Justice and Empowerment) | R. Subramanyam | |
| 59 | Statistics and Programme Implementation | Secretary (Statistics and Programme Implementation) | G. P. Samanta |
| 60 | Space | Secretary (Space) and chairperson of ISRO | Dr. K. Sivan |
| 61 | Steel | Secretary (Steel) | Sanjay K. Singh |
| 62 | Textiles | Secretary (Textiles) | Upendra P. Singh |
| 63 | Tourism | Secretary (Tourism) | Arvind Singh |
| 64 | Tribal Affairs | Secretary (Tribal Affairs) | Anil Kumar Jha |
| 65 | Women and Child Development | Secretary (Women and Child Development) | Indeevar Pandey |
| 66 | Youth Affairs and Sports | Secretary (Sports) | Sujata Chaturvedi |
| 67 | Youth Affairs and Sports | Secretary (Youth Affairs) | Usha Sharma |
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Cabinet Secretaries to Government of India List From 1950 To 2025
The table below presents the list of Cabinet Secretaries to the Government of India.
| Cabinet Secretaries' Names | Office From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Shri. N.R.Pillai | 06/02/1950 | 13/05/1953 |
| Shri. Y.N.Sukthankar | 14/05/1953 | 31/07/1957 |
| Shri. M.K.Vellodi | 01/08/1957 | 04/06/1958 |
| Shri. Vishnu Sahay | 01/07/1958 | 10/11/1960 |
| Shri. B.N.Jha | 10/11/1960 | 08/03/1961 |
| Shri. Vishnu Sahay | 09/03/1961 | 15/04/1962 |
| Shri. S.S.Khera | 15/04/1962 | 18/11/1964 |
| Shri. Dharam Vira | 18/11/1964 | 27/06/1966 |
| Shri. D.S.Joshi | 27/06/1966 | 31/12/1968 |
| Shri. B.Sivaraman | 01/01/1969 | 30/11/1970 |
| Shri. T.Swaminathan | 01/12/1970 | 02/11/1972 |
| Shri. B.D.Pande | 02/11/1972 | 31/03/1977 |
| Shri. N.K.Mukarji | 31/03/1977 | 31/03/1980 |
| Shri. S.S.Grewal | 02/04/1980 | 30/04/1981 |
| Shri. C.R.Krishnaswamy Rao | 30/04/1981 | 08/02/1985 |
| Shri. P.K.Kaul | 08/02/1985 | 22/08/1986 |
| Shri. B.G.Deshmukh | 23/08/1986 | 27/03/1989 |
| Shri. T.N.Seshan | 27/03/1989 | 23/12/1989 |
| Shri. V.C.Pande | 23/12/1989 | 11/12/1990 |
| Shri. Naresh Chandra | 11/12/1990 | 31/07/1992 |
| Shri. S.Rajgopal | 01/08/1992 | 31/07/1993 |
| Shri. Zafar Saifullah | 31/07/1993 | 31/07/1994 |
| Shri. Surendra Singh | 01/08/1994 | 31/07/1996 |
| Shri. T.S.R.Subramanian | 01/08/1996 | 31/03/1998 |
| Shri. Prabhat Kumar | 01/04/1998 | 31/10/2000 |
| Shri. T.R. Prasad | 01/11/2000 | 31/10/2002 |
| Shri. Kamal Pande | 01/11/2002 | 14/06/2004 |
| Shri. B. K. Chaturvedi | 14/06/2004 | 13/06/2007 |
| Shri. K. M. Chandrasekhar | 14/06/2007 | 13/06/2011 |
| Shri. Ajit Kumar Seth | 14/06/2011 | 13/06/2015 |
| Shri. Pradeep Kumar Sinha | 13/06/2015 | 30/08/2019 |
| Shri. Rajiv Gauba | 30/08/2019 | Till date |
Additional Resources
Prime Ministers of India List From 1947 to 2022
