The Minister of Education, formerly the Minister of Human Resources Development (1985-2020),^[1] is the head of the Ministry of Education and one of the cabinet ministers of the Government of India.

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Minister of Education
Shiksha Mantrī
Emblem of India
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Incumbent Dharmendra Pradhan since 7 July 2021
Ministry of Education
Member of	Union Cabinet
Reports to	President of India Prime Minister of India Parliament of India
Residence	New Delhi, India
Nominator	Prime Minister of India
Appointer	President of India on the advice of the Prime Minister
Term length	5 year
Formation	15 August 1947

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• Note: MoS, I/C – Minister of State (Independent Charge)

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#	Portrait		Minister (Birth-Death) Constituency	Term of office			Political party	Ministry	Prime Minister
				From	To	Period
Minister of Education
1			Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (1888–1958) MP for United Provinces (1947–1952) MP for Rampur (1952–1957)	15 August 1947	13 May 1952	9 years, 245 days	Indian National Congress	Nehru I	Jawaharlal Nehru
				13 May 1952	17 April 1957			Nehru II
Minister of Education and Scientific Research
(1)			Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (1888–1958) MP for Gurgaon	17 April 1957	22 January 1958	280 days	Indian National Congress	Nehru III	Jawaharlal Nehru
2			K. L. Shrimali (1909–2000) Rajya Sabha MP for Rajasthan (MoS)	22 February 1958	10 April 1962	4 years, 47 days
Minister of Education
(2)			K. L. Shrimali (1909–2000) Rajya Sabha MP for Rajasthan	10 April 1962	31 August 1963	1 year, 143 days	Indian National Congress	Nehru IV	Jawaharlal Nehru
3			Humayun Kabir (1906–1969) MP for Basirhat	31 August 1963	21 November 1963	82 days
4			M. C. Chagla (1900–1981) Rajya Sabha MP for Maharashtra	21 November 1963	27 May 1964	2 years, 357 days
				27 May 1964	9 June 1964			Nanda I	Gulzarilal Nanda (Acting)
				9 June 1964	11 January 1966			Shastri	Lal Bahadur Shastri
				11 January 1966	24 January 1966			Nanda II	Gulzarilal Nanda (Acting)
				24 January 1966	13 November 1966			Indira I	Indira Gandhi
5			Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (1905–1977) Rajya Sabha MP for Assam	14 November 1966	13 March 1967	119 days
6			Triguna Sen (1905–1998) Rajya Sabha MP for Tripura	16 March 1967	14 February 1969	1 year, 335 days		Indira II
Minister of Education and Youth Services
7			V. K. R. V. Rao (1908–1991) MP for Bellary	14 February 1969	18 March 1971	2 years, 32 days	Indian National Congress (R)	Indira II	Indira Gandhi
Minister of Education and Culture
8			Siddhartha Shankar Ray (1920–2010) MP for Raiganj	18 March 1971	20 March 1972	1 year, 2 days	Indian National Congress (R)	Indira III	Indira Gandhi
9			Saiyid Nurul Hasan (1921–1993) Rajya Sabha MP for Uttar Pradesh (MoS, I/C)	24 March 1972	24 March 1977	5 years, 0 days
10			Pratap Chandra Chunder (1919–2008) MP for Calcutta North East	24 March 1977	28 July 1979	2 years, 126 days	Janata Party	Desai	Morarji Desai
11			Karan Singh (born 1931) MP for Udhampur	28 July 1979	14 January 1980	170 days	Indian National Congress (Urs)	Charan Singh	Charan Singh
12			B. Shankaranand (1925–2009) MP for Chikkodi	14 January 1980	17 October 1980	277 days	Indian National Congress (I)	Indira IV	Indira Gandhi
13			Shankarrao Chavan (1920–2004) MP for Nanded	17 October 1980	8 August 1981	295 days
14			Sheila Kaul (1915–2015) MP for Raebareli (MoS, I/C)	8 August 1981	31 October 1984	3 years, 145 days
				31 October 1984	31 December 1984			Rajiv I	Rajiv Gandhi
Minister of Education
15			K. C. Pant (1931–2012) MP for New Delhi	31 December 1984	25 September 1985	268 days	Indian National Congress (I)	Rajiv II	Rajiv Gandhi
Minister of Human Resource Development
16			P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004) MP for Ramtek	25 September 1985	25 June 1988	2 years, 274 days	Indian National Congress (I)	Rajiv II	Rajiv Gandhi
16			P. Shiv Shankar (1929–2017) Rajya Sabha MP for Gujarat	25 June 1988	2 December 1989	1 year, 160 days
–			V. P. Singh (1931–2008) MP for Fatehpur (Prime Minister)	2 December 1989	10 November 1990	343 days	Janata Dal	V. P. Singh	V. P. Singh
18			Raj Mangal Pande (1920–1993) MP for Deoria	21 November 1990	21 June 1991	212 days	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)	Chandra Shekhar	Chandra Shekhar
19			Arjun Singh (1930–2011) MP for Satna	23 June 1991	24 December 1994	3 years, 184 days	Indian National Congress (I)	Rao	P. V. Narasimha Rao
–			P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004) MP for Nandyal (Prime Minister)	24 December 1994	9 February 1995	47 days
20			Madhavrao Scindia (1945–2001) MP for Gwalior	9 February 1995	17 January 1996	342 days
–			P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004) MP for Nandyal (Prime Minister)	17 January 1996	16 May 1996	120 days
–			Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018) MP for Lucknow (Prime Minister)	16 May 1996	1 June 1996	16 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Vajpayee I	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
21			S. R. Bommai (1927–2007) Rajya Sabha MP for Odisha	5 June 1996	21 April 1997	1 year, 286 days	Janata Dal	Deve Gowda	H. D. Deve Gowda
				21 April 1997	18 March 1998			Gujral	Inder Kumar Gujral
22			Murli Manohar Joshi (born 1934) MP for Allahabad	19 March 1998	13 October 1999	6 years, 64 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Vajpayee II	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
				13 October 1999	22 May 2004			Vajpayee III
19			Arjun Singh (1930–2011) Rajya Sabha MP for Madhya Pradesh	23 May 2004	22 May 2009	4 years, 364 days	Indian National Congress	Manmohan I	Manmohan Singh
23			Kapil Sibal (born 1948) MP for Chandni Chowk	28 May 2009	28 October 2012	3 years, 153 days		Manmohan II
24			M. M. Pallam Raju (born 1962) MP for Kakinada	28 October 2012	26 May 2014	1 year, 210 days
25			Smriti Irani (born 1976) Rajya Sabha MP for Gujarat	27 May 2014	5 July 2016	2 years, 39 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Modi I	Narendra Modi
26			Prakash Javadekar (born 1951) Rajya Sabha MP for Madhya Pradesh, till 2018 Rajya Sabha MP for Maharashtra, from 2018	5 July 2016	30 May 2019	2 years, 329 days
27			Ramesh Pokhriyal (born 1959) MP for Haridwar	31 May 2019	29 July 2020	1 year, 59 days		Modi II
Minister of Education
(27)			Ramesh Pokhriyal (born 1959) MP for Haridwar	29 July 2020	7 July 2021	343 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Modi II	Narendra Modi
28			Dharmendra Pradhan (born 1969) Rajya Sabha MP for Madhya Pradesh	7 July 2021	Incumbent	2 years, 294 days

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