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Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs
आवासन एवं शहरी कार्य मंत्री Āvāsan Ēvaṁ Śahrī Kārya Mantrī
Emblem of India
Incumbent Manohar Lal Khattar since 10 June 2024 (2024-06-10)
Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
Member of	Cabinet of India
Reports to	President of India Prime Minister of India Parliament of India
Appointer	President of India on the recommendation of the Prime Minister of India
Formation	15 August 1947 (1947-08-15) (as Ministry of Works, Mines and Power) 6 July 2017 (2017-07-06) (current form)
First holder	Narhar Vishnu Gadgil (as Minister of Works, Mines and Power) M. Venkaiah Naidu (as Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs)
Deputy	Tokhan Sahu

The Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs (Hindi: आवासन और शहरी कार्य मंत्री) is the head of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs of the Government of India since the ministry's formation on 6 July 2017 and is a member of the union council of ministers. The minister is responsible for the execution, formulation and administration of the rules and regulations and laws relating to the housing and urban development in India.

The ministry is currently headed by Manohar Lal Khattar who has been the minister since 10 June 2024. Khattar is the Member of Parliament for Karnal and was formerly the 10th Chief Minister of Haryana, from 2014 to 2024. Khattar also jointly holds the post of Minister of Power. The cabinet minister is often assisted by a minister of state and formerly by a deputy minister.

The ministry came into existence on 15 August 1947 soon after the independence as the "Ministry of Works, Mines and Power". Narhar Vishnu Gadgil was appointed as the first Minister of Works, Mines and Power thereupon. On 26 December 1950, the ministry was reorganized and recognized as the Minister of Works, Production and Supply. In 1952, the ministry was renamed as the "Ministry of Works, Housing and Supply" after the Department of Production was separated and the Ministry of Production was formed. Swaran Singh was appointed as the inaugural Minister of Works, Housing and Supply and served from 1952 until 1957. In 1962, the Department of Supply was separated from the ministry and the Ministry of Rehabilitation was merged with the Ministry of Works and Supply to form the "Ministry of Works, Housing and Rehabilitation".

In 1964, the ministry was renamed as "Ministry of Works and Housing" after the Department of Rehabilitation was separated from it and further renamed in 1966 as "Ministry of Works, Housing and Urban Development" and in 1971 as "Ministry of Works and Housing". In 1977, the ministry was merged with Ministry of Supply and Rehabilitation to form the "Ministry of Works, Housing, Supply and Rehabilitation". In 1980, the ministry was renamed back as "Ministry of Works and Housing".

In 1985, with rapidly growing urban issues and to give more importance to those issues, the ministry was renamed as the "Ministry of Urban Development" and further renamed in 1995 as the "Ministry of Urban Affairs and Employment" with two constituent departments, namely, the Department of Urban Employment and Poverty Alleviation and the Department of Urban Employment.

The two departments were merged together in 1999 as the "Ministry of Urban Development" and bifurcated only months later into the "Ministry of Urban Development" and the "Urban Employment and Poverty Alleviation". The two independent ministries were re-united on 27 May 2000 as the "Ministry of Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation" with Jagmohan serving as the first office-holder.

Upon the formation of the First Manmohan Singh ministry on 22 May 2004, the ministry was again bifurcated. Two separate ministries were formed, one concerned with urban development and was named as "Ministry of Urban Development" and Ghulam Nabi Azad was appointed as the Minister of Urban Development, while the other ministry was concerned with urban employment and poverty issues and was named as "Ministry of Urban Employment and Poverty Alleviation" and Kumari Selja was appointed as the minister. The Ministry of Urban Employment and Poverty Alleviation was renamed as the "Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation" in 2006 and existed until 2017.

On 6 July 2017, the two independent ministries were re-united as the "Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs"^[1][2] and has since existed in this form. Venkaiah Naidu who served as the Minister in both the ministries prior to their merger was appointed as the first minister thereupon. He resigned the following month after being nominated as a candidate for the 2017 vice presidential election and was elected as the Vice President in August 2017. Upon his resignation, Rural Development minister Narendra Singh Tomar briefly officiated in the ministry until the appointment of Hardeep Singh Puri in September 2017. Puri has since then served as the Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs and is the longest serving minister in the ministry.

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has undergone several minor and major organizational and nominal changes since its establishment as the "Ministry of Works, Housing and Supply" in 1952.

• 1947–1950: Minister of Works, Mines and Power
• 1950–1952: Minister of Works, Production and Supply
• 1952–1962: Minister of Works, Housing and Supply
• 1962–1964: Minister of Works, Housing and Rehabilitation
• 1964–1966: Minister of Works and Housing
• 1966–1971: Minister of Works, Housing and Urban Development
• 1971–1977: Minister of Works and Housing
• 1977–1980: Minister of Works, Housing, Supply and Rehabilitation
• 1980–1985: Minister of Works and Housing
• 1985–1995: Minister of Urban Development
• 1995–1999: Minister of Urban Affairs and Employment
• 1999–2000: Minister of Urban Development
• 2000–2004: Minister of Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation
• 2004–2017: Minister of Urban Development
• 2017–present: Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs

• Key: ^† Died in office

#	Portrait		Minister (Birth-Death) Constituency	Term of office			Political party	Ministry	Prime Minister
				From	To	Period
Minister of Works, Mines and Power
1			Narhar Vishnu Gadgil (1896–1966) MCA for Bombay	15 August 1947	26 December 1950	3 years, 133 days	Indian National Congress	Nehru I	Jawaharlal Nehru
Minister of Works, Production and Supply
(1)			Narhar Vishnu Gadgil (1896–1966) MCA for Bombay	26 December 1950	13 May 1952	3 years, 133 days	Indian National Congress	Nehru I	Jawaharlal Nehru
Minister of Works, Housing and Supply
2			Swaran Singh (1907–1994) Rajya Sabha MP for Punjab	13 May 1952	17 April 1957	4 years, 339 days	Indian National Congress	Nehru II	Jawaharlal Nehru
3			K. Chengalaraya Reddy (1902–1976) MP for Kolar	17 April 1957	5 April 1961	3 years, 353 days		Nehru III
4			Bezawada Gopala Reddy (1907–1997) MP for Kavali (MoS)	5 April 1961	10 April 1962	1 year, 5 days
5			Mehr Chand Khanna (1897–1970) MP for New Delhi (MoS)	10 April 1962	15 November 1962	219 days		Nehru IV
Minister of Works, Housing and Rehabilitation
(5)			Mehr Chand Khanna (1897–1970) MP for New Delhi (MoS)	15 November 1962	16 April 1964	1 year, 153 days	Indian National Congress	Nehru IV	Jawaharlal Nehru
Minister of Works and Housing
(5)			Mehr Chand Khanna (1897–1970) MP for New Delhi (MoS)	16 April 1964	27 May 1964	1 year, 283 days	Indian National Congress	Nehru IV	Jawaharlal Nehru
				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)
Minister of Works, Housing and Urban Development
(5)			Mehr Chand Khanna (1897–1970) MP for New Delhi (MoS)	24 January 1966	13 March 1967	1 year, 48 days	Indian National Congress	Indira I	Indira Gandhi
6			Jagannath Rao (1909–?) MP for Chatrapur (MoS)	13 March 1967	14 November 1967	246 days		Indira II
7			Satya Narayan Sinha (1900–1983) MP for Darbhanga	14 November 1967	14 February 1969	1 year, 92 days
8			Kodardas Kalidas Shah (1908–1986) Rajya Sabha MP for Gujarat	14 February 1969	18 March 1971	2 years, 32 days	Indian National Congress (R)
Minister of Works and Housing
9			Inder Kumar Gujral (1919–2012) Rajya Sabha MP for Punjab (MoS)	18 March 1971	2 May 1971	45 days	Indian National Congress (R)	Indira III	Indira Gandhi
10			Uma Shankar Dikshit (1901–1991) Rajya Sabha MP for Uttar Pradesh	2 May 1971	5 February 1973	1 year, 279 days
11			Bhola Paswan Shastri (1914–1984) Rajya Sabha MP for Bihar	5 February 1973	10 October 1974	1 year, 247 days
12			Kotha Raghuramaiah (1912–1979) MP for Guntur	10 October 1974	23 December 1976	2 years, 74 days
13			Hitendra Kanaiyalal Desai (1915–1993) Unelected	23 December 1976	24 March 1977	91 days
Minister of Works, Housing, Supply and Rehabilitation
14			Sikander Bakht (1918–2004) MP for Chandni Chowk	24 March 1977	28 July 1979	2 years, 126 days	Janata Party	Desai	Morarji Desai
15			Ram Kinkar (1922–2003) MP for Barabanki	28 July 1979	14 January 1980	170 days	Janata Party (Secular)	Charan	Charan Singh
Minister of Works and Housing
16			Prakash Chandra Sethi (1919–1996) MP for Indore	14 January 1980	19 October 1980	279 days	Indian National Congress (I)	Indira IV	Indira Gandhi
17			Bhishma Narain Singh (1933–2018) Rajya Sabha MP for Bihar	19 October 1980	29 January 1983	2 years, 102 days
18			Buta Singh (1934–2021) MP for Ropar	29 January 1983	31 October 1984	1 year, 332 days
				4 November 1984	31 December 1984			Rajiv I	Rajiv Gandhi
19			Abdul Ghafoor (1918–2004) MP for Siwan	31 December 1984	25 September 1985	268 days		Rajiv II
Minister of Urban Development
(19)			Abdul Ghafoor (1918–2004) MP for Siwan	25 September 1985	22 October 1986	1 year, 27 days	Indian National Congress	Rajiv II	Rajiv Gandhi
20			Mohsina Kidwai (born 1932) MP for Meerut	22 October 1986	2 December 1989	3 years, 41 days
21			Murasoli Maran (1934–2003) MP for Chennai South	2 December 1989	10 November 1990	343 days	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	Vishwanath	V. P. Singh
22			Daulat Ram Saran (1924–2011) MP for Churu	21 November 1990	21 June 1991	212 days	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)	Chandra Shekhar	Chandra Shekhar
23			Sheila Kaul (1915–2015) MP for Raebareli	21 June 1991	3 May 1995	3 years, 316 days	Indian National Congress (I)	Rao	P. V. Narasimha Rao
Minister of Urban Affairs and Employment
(23)			Sheila Kaul (1915–2015) MP for Raebareli	3 May 1995	10 September 1995	130 days	Indian National Congress (I)	Rao	P. V. Narasimha Rao
–			P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004) MP for Nandyal (Prime Minister)	10 September 1995	15 September 1995	5 days
24			R. K. Dhawan (1937–2018) Rajya Sabha MP for Bihar (MoS, I/C)	15 September 1995	21 February 1996	159 days
–			P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004) MP for Nandyal (Prime Minister)	21 February 1996	16 May 1996	85 days
(14)			Sikander Bakht (1918–2004) Rajya Sabha MP for Madhya Pradesh	16 May 1996	1 June 1996	16 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Vajpayee I	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
25			M. Arunachalam (1944–2004) MP for Tenkasi	1 June 1996	29 June 1996	28 days	Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar)	Deve Gowda	H. D. Deve Gowda
–			H. D. Deve Gowda (born 1933) Rajya Sabha MP for Karnataka (Prime Minister)	29 June 1996	21 April 1997	296 days	Janata Dal
–			Inder Kumar Gujral (1919–2012) Rajya Sabha MP for Bihar (Prime Minister)	21 April 1997	9 June 1997	49 days		Gujral Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=Minister_of_Urban_Development_(India) Text je dostupný za podmienok Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0 Unported; prípadne za ďalších podmienok. Podrobnejšie informácie nájdete na stránke Podmienky použitia.  Navigácia: Veda > Analytika Antropológia Aplikované vedy Bibliometria Dejiny vedy Encyklopédie Filozofia vedy Forenzné vedy Humanitné vedy Knižničná veda Kryogenika Kryptológia Kulturológia Literárna veda Medzidisciplinárne oblasti Metódy kvantitatívnej analýzy Metavedy Metodika Metodológia vedy Náboženstvo a veda Náučná literatúra Podvody vo vede Popularizácia vedy Potravinárstvo Prírodné vedy Pseudoveda Scientometria Spoločenské vedy Teórie Teatrológia Technické vedy Technika Terminológia Umenie Výskum Veda Veda a technika podľa štátu Veda a technika podľa kontinentu Veda a technika podľa roka Veda v kozme Vedci Vedecká literatúra Vedecké databázy Vedecké experimenty Vedecké konferencie Vedecké metódy Vedecké ocenenia Vedecké organizácie Vedecké parky Vedeckí spisovatelia Vzdelávanie Záhady Príbuzné výrazy: Text je dostupný za podmienok Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0 Unported; prípadne za ďalších podmienok. Podrobnejšie informácie nájdete na stránke Podmienky použitia. www.astronomia.sk | www.biologia.sk | www.botanika.sk | www.dejiny.sk | www.economy.sk | www.elektrotechnika.sk | www.estetika.sk | www.farmakologia.sk | www.filozofia.sk | Fyzika | www.futurologia.sk | www.genetika.sk | www.chemia.sk | www.lingvistika.sk | www.politologia.sk | www.psychologia.sk | www.sexuologia.sk | www.sociologia.sk | www.veda.sk I www.zoologia.sk