EducationMinisters of India
1. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Period - 15 Aug 1947 to 22 Jan 1958
2. Dr. K. L. Shrimali
Period - 22 Jan 1958 to 31 Aug 1963
3. Shri Humayun Kabir
Period - 1 Sep 1963 to 21 Nov 1963
4. Shri. M. C. Chagla
Period - 21 Nov 1963 to 13 Nov 1966
5. Shri. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
Period - 14 Nov 1966 to 13 Mar 1967
6. Dr. Triguna Sen
Period - 16 Mar 1967 to 14 Feb 1969
7. Dr. V. K. R. V. Rao
Period - 14 Feb 1969 to 18 Mar 1971
8. Shri. Siddhartha Shankar Ray
Period - 18 Mar 1971 to 20 Mar 1972
9. Prof. S. Nurul Hasan (as Minister of State)
Period - 24 Mar 1972 to 24 Mar 1977
10. Prof. Pratap Chandra Chunder
Period - 26 Mar 1977 to 28 july 1979
11. Dr. Karan Singh
Period - 30 July 1979 to 14 Jan 1980
12. Shri. B. Shankaranand
Period - 14 Jan 1980 to 17 Oct 1980
13. Shri. S. B. Chavan
Period - 17 Oct 1980 to 8 Aug 1981
14. Smt. Sheila Kaul
Period - 10 Aug 1981 to 31 Dec 1984
15. Shri. K. C. Pant
Period - 31 Dec 1984 to 25 Sep 1985
16. Shri. P. V. Narasimha Rao
Period - 25 Sep 1985 to 16 May 1996
17. Shri. P. Shiv Shankar
Period - 25 june 1988 to 2 Dec 1989
18. Shri. V. P. Singh
Period -2 Dec 1989 to 10 Nov 1990
19. Shri. Rajmangal Pandey
Period - 21 Nov 1990 to 21 june 1991
20. Shri. Arjun Singh
Period - 23 June 1991 to 22nd May 2009
21. Shri. Madhavrao Scindia
Period - 10 Feb 1995 to 17 Jan 1996
22. Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Period - 16 May 1996 to 1 june 1996
23. Shri. S. R. Bommai
Period - 5 june 1996 to 19 Mar 1998
24. Dr. Murali Manohar Joshi
Period - 19 Mar 1998 to 21 May 2004
25. Shri Kapil Sibal
Period - 22 May 2009 to 28 Oct 2012
26. Shri M. M Pallam Raju
Period - 29 Oct 2012 to 25 May 2014
27. Smt. Smriti Irani
Period - 26 May 2014 to 5 july 2016
28. Shri. Prakash Javdekar
Period - 5 July 2016 to Present