Ministry of Culture (India)

Agency overview
Jurisdiction	Government of India
Headquarters	C-wing Shastri Bhawan New Delhi
Annual budget	₹3,399.65 crore (US$430 million) (2023-24 est.)[1]
Ministers responsible	G. Kishan Reddy, Cabinet Minister Meenakshi Lekhi, Minister of State
Website	www.indianculture.gov.in

The Ministry of Culture is the Indian government ministry charged with preservation and promotion of art and culture of India.

G. Kishan Reddy is the current Minister of Culture. Recently the government has established the National Mission on Libraries India under this ministry.^[2]

Characteristics

The restoration of ancient idols smuggled out of India comes under the Ministry of Culture.

As of 01 October 2021, the Government of India has recovered 211 idols.^[3] Till 2014 only 13 idols were recovered. 198 idols have been restored since 2014.

In June 2022, more than 10 idols were recovered and handed over to the Tamil Nadu Idol Rescue Unit. 228 idols have been recovered till 2022.^[4]

Organisation

• Attached offices
  • Archaeological Survey of India
  • Central Secretariat Library
  • National Archives of India
• Subordinate offices
  • Anthropological Survey of India, Kolkata
  • Central Reference Library, Kolkata
  • National Research Laboratory for Conservation of Cultural Property, Lucknow
  • National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
  • National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
  • National Gallery of Modern Art, Bengaluru
  • National Library of India, Kolkata
  • National Museum, New Delhi
• Autonomous organisations
  • National Mission for Manuscripts, Delhi
  • Allahabad Museum, Prayagraj
  • Asiatic Society, Kolkata
  • Central Institute of Buddhist Studies, Jammu and Kashmir
  • Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies (CIHTS)
  • Centre for Cultural Resources and Training, New Delhi
  • Delhi Public Library, Delhi
  • Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti, New Delhi
  • Indian Museum, Kolkata
  • Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi
  • Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manava Sangrahalaya, Bhopal
  • Kalakshetra Foundation, Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai
  • Khuda Baksh Oriental Public Library, Patna
  • Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi
  • Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies (MAKAIAS), Kolkata
  • National Council of Science Museums, Kolkata
  • National Museum Institute of the History of Art, Conservation and Museology (NMIHACM), Delhi
  • National School of Drama, New Delhi
  • Nav Nalanda Mahavihara, Nalanda, Bihar
  • Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi (Teen Murti Bhavan)
  • Raja Ram Mohan Roy Library Foundation, Kolkata, registered under the West Bengal Societies Registration Act, 1961^[5]
  • Raza Library, Rampur
  • Sahitya Akademi (SA), New Delhi
  • Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad
  • Sangeet Natak Akademi (SNA), New Delhi
  • Saraswathi Mahal Library, Tanjore
  • Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata
• Zonal Cultural Centers (based on Cultural Zones of India)
  • Eastern Zonal Cultural Centre, Kolkata
  • North Central Zone Cultural Centre, Allahabad
  • North East Zone Cultural Centre
  • North Zone Cultural Centre
  • South Central Zone Cultural Centre, Nagpur
  • South Zone Culture Centre, Tanjavur, Tamil Nadu
  • West Zone Cultural Centre

List of ministers

List of ministers

No	Image	Name	Term of office			Prime Minister	Political party
1		Satya Narayan Sinha (As MoS till 10-Apr-1962)	13 May 1952	13 March 1967	19 years, 210 days	Jawaharlal Nehru Gulzarilal Nanda Lal Bahadur Shastri	Indian National Congress
						Indira Gandhi
2		Ram Subhag Singh	13 March 1967	14 February 1969	1 year, 338 days
3		Kotha Raghuramaiah (Minister of State)	14 February 1969	18 March 1971	2 years, 32 days
4		Raj Bahadur	18 March 1971	5 February 1973	1 year, 324 days
(3)		Kotha Raghuramaiah	5 February 1973	24 March 1977	4 years, 47 days
5		Ravindra Varma	26 March 1977	28 July 1979	2 years, 124 days	Morarji Desai	Janata Party
6		K. Gopal	4 August 1979	14 January 1980	163 days	Charan Singh	Janata Party (Secular)
7		Bhishma Narain Singh	14 January 1980	29 January 1983	3 years, 15 days	Indira Gandhi	Indian National Congress
8		Buta Singh	29 January 1983	31 December 1984	1 year, 337 days	Indira Gandhi Rajiv Gandhi
9		H. K. L. Bhagat	31 December 1984	2 December 1989	4 years, 336 days	Rajiv Gandhi
10		P. Upendra	6 December 1989	10 November 1990	339 days	V. P. Singh	Telugu Desam Party
11		Satya Prakash Malaviya	21 November 1990	21 June 1991	212 days	Chandra Shekhar	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)
12		Ghulam Nabi Azad	21 June 1991	18 January 1993	1 year, 211 days	P. V. Narasimha Rao	Indian National Congress
13		Vidya Charan Shukla	18 January 1993	17 January 1996	2 years, 364 days
(12)		Ghulam Nabi Azad	17 January 1996	16 May 1996	120 days
14		Pramod Mahajan	16 May 1996	1 June 1996	16 days	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	Bharatiya Janata Party
15		Ram Vilas Paswan	1 June 1996	29 June 1996	28 days	H. D. Deve Gowda	Janata Dal
16		Srikant Kumar Jena	29 June 1996	19 March 1998	1 year, 263 days	H. D. Deve Gowda I. K. Gujral
17		Madan Lal Khurana	19 March 1998	31 January 1999	318 days	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	Bharatiya Janata Party
18		P. R. Kumaramangalam	31 January 1999	13 October 1999	255 days

Portrait		Minister (Birth-Death) Constituency	Term of office			Political party	Ministry	Prime Minister
			From	To	Period
		Ananth Kumar (1959–2018) MP for Bangalore South	13 October 1999	1 September 2001	1 year, 323 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Vajpayee III	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
		Maneka Gandhi (born 1956) MP for Pilibhit (MoS, I/C)	1 September 2001	18 November 2001	78 days
		Jagmohan (1927–2021) MP for New Delhi	18 November 2001	22 May 2004	2 years, 186 days
		Jaipal Reddy (1942–2018) MP for Miryalguda	23 May 2004	29 January 2006	1 year, 251 days	Indian National Congress	Manmohan I	Manmohan Singh
		Ambika Soni (born 1942) MP for Punjab (Rajya Sabha)	29 January 2006	22 May 2009	3 years, 113 days
		Manmohan Singh (born 1932) MP for Assam (Rajya Sabha) (Prime Minister)	22 May 2009	19 January 2011	1 year, 242 days		Manmohan II
		Selja Kumari (born 1962) MP for Ambala	19 January 2011	28 October 2012	1 year, 283 days
		Chandresh Kumari Katoch (born 1944) MP for Jodhpur	28 October 2012	26 May 2014	1 year, 210 days
		Shripad Naik (born 1952) MP for North Goa (MoS, I/C)	26 May 2014	9 November 2014	167 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Modi I	Narendra Modi
		Mahesh Sharma (born 1959) MP for Gautam Buddh Nagar (MoS, I/C)	9 November 2014	30 May 2019	4 years, 202 days
		Prahlad Singh Patel (born 1960) MP for Damoh (MoS, I/C)	31 May 2019	7 July 2021	2 years, 37 days		Modi II
		G. Kishan Reddy (born 1964) MP for Secunderabad	7 July 2021	Incumbent	2 years, 190 days

Ministers of State

Portrait		Minister (Birth-Death) Constituency	Term of office			Political party	Ministry	Prime Minister	Cabinet Minister
			From	To	Period
		Kanti Singh (born 1957) MP for Arrah	6 April 2008	22 May 2009	1 year, 46 days	Rashtriya Janata Dal	Manmohan I	Manmohan Singh		Ambika Soni
		Arjun Ram Meghwal (born 1953) MP for Bikaner	7 July 2021	Incumbent	2 years, 190 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Modi II	Narendra Modi		G. Kishan Reddy
		Meenakshi Lekhi (born 1967) MP for New Delhi

Department of Culture (State Ministers)

References

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