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Minister of Finance
Vitta Mantrī
Emblem of India
Flag of India
Incumbent Nirmala Sitharaman since 31 May 2019
Ministry of Finance
Style	The Honourable
Abbreviation	FM
Member of	Cabinet Cabinet Committee on Security
Reports to	President of India Prime Minister of India Parliament of India
Appointer	President on the advice of the Prime Minister
Inaugural holder	R. K. Shanmukham Chetty
Formation	15 August 1947

The Minister of Finance (Vitta Mantrī ) (or simply, the Finance Minister, short form FM) is the head of the Ministry of Finance of the Government of India. One of the senior most offices of the Union Cabinet, the finance minister is responsible for the fiscal policy of the government. A key duty of the Finance Minister is to present the annual Union Budget in Parliament, detailing the government's plan for taxation and spending in the coming financial year. Through the Budget, the finance minister also outlines allocations to all the ministries and departments. The Minister is assisted by the Minister of State for Finance and the junior Deputy Minister of Finance.

There have been a number of Ministers of Finance that went on to become the Prime Minister; Morarji Desai, Charan Singh, Vishwanath Pratap Singh and Manmohan Singh and also to serve as the President; R.Venkataraman and Pranab Mukherjee. Several Prime Ministers have also gone on to hold the position of Minister of Finance.

The current Finance Minister of India is Nirmala Sitharaman. Of all finance ministers, Pranab Mukherjee and Nirmala Sitharaman had served as both cabinet ministers and ministers of state for finance.

Cabinet Ministers

No.	Portrait		Minister (Birth-Death) Constituency	Term of office			Political party	Ministry	Prime Minister
				From	To	Period
1			R. K. Shanmukham Chetty (1892–1953) Unelected	15 August 1947	17 August 1948	1 year, 2 days	Indian National Congress	Nehru I	Jawaharlal Nehru
2			Kshitish Chandra Neogy (1888–1970) MCA for West Bengal	18 August 1948	22 September 1948	36 days
3			John Matthai (1886–1959) MP for United Provinces	22 September 1948	1 June 1950	1 year, 252 days
4			C. D. Deshmukh (1896–1982) MP for Kolaba	1 June 1950	15 April 1952	6 years, 53 days
				15 April 1952	24 July 1956			Nehru II
–			Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964) MP for Phulpur (Prime Minister)	24 July 1956	30 August 1956	37 days
5			T. T. Krishnamachari (1899–1974) MP for Madras South	30 August 1956	4 April 1957	217 days
				4 April 1957	13 February 1958			Nehru III
6			Morarji Desai (1896–1995) MP for Surat	13 February 1958	2 April 1962	5 years, 199 days
				2 April 1962	31 August 1963			Nehru IV
(5)			T. T. Krishnamachari (1899–1974) MP for Tiruchendur	31 August 1963	27 May 1964	2 years, 122 days
				27 May 1964	9 June 1964			Nanda I	Gulzarilal Nanda (acting)
				9 June 1964	31 December 1965			Shastri	Lal Bahadur Shastri
7			Sachindra Chaudhuri (1903–1992) MP for Ghatal	1 January 1966	11 January 1966	1 year, 70 days
				11 January 1966	24 January 1966			Nanda II	Gulzarilal Nanda (Acting)
				24 January 1966	12 March 1967			Indira I	Indira Gandhi
(6)			Morarji Desai (1896–1995) MP for Surat (Deputy Prime Minister)	13 March 1967	16 July 1969	2 years, 125 days		Indira II
–			Indira Gandhi (1917–1984) MP for Rae Bareli (Prime Minister)	16 July 1969	27 June 1970	346 days	Indian National Congress (R)
8			Yashwantrao Chavan (1913–1984) MP for Satara	27 June 1970	13 March 1971	4 years, 105 days
				13 March 1971	10 October 1974			Indira III
9			Chidambaram Subramaniam (1910–2000) MP for Palani	10 October 1974	24 March 1977	2 years, 165 days
–			Morarji Desai (1896–1995) MP for Surat (Prime Minister)	24 March 1977	26 March 1977	2 days	Janata Party	Desai	Morarji Desai
10			Hirubhai M. Patel (1904–1993) MP for Sabarkantha	26 March 1977	24 January 1979	1 year, 304 days
11			Charan Singh (1902–1987) MP for Baghpat (Deputy Prime Minister)	24 January 1979	16 July 1979	173 days
–			Morarji Desai (1896–1995) MP for Surat (Prime Minister)	16 July 1979	28 July 1979	12 days
12			Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna (1919–1989) MP for Lucknow	28 July 1979	19 October 1979	83 days	Janata Party (Secular)	Charan Singh	Charan Singh
–			Charan Singh (1902–1987) MP for Baghpat (Prime Minister)	19 October 1979	14 January 1980	87 days
13			Ramaswamy Venkataraman (1910–2009) MP for Madras South	14 January 1980	15 January 1982	2 years, 1 day	Indian National Congress (I)	Indira IV	Indira Gandhi
14			Pranab Mukherjee (1935–2020) Rajya Sabha MP for Gujarat	15 January 1982	31 October 1984	2 years, 351 days
				31 October 1984	31 December 1984			Rajiv I	Rajiv Gandhi
15			V. P. Singh (1931–2008) Rajya Sabha MP for Uttar Pradesh	31 December 1984	24 January 1987	2 years, 24 days		Rajiv II
–			Rajiv Gandhi (1944–1991) MP for Amethi (Prime Minister)	24 January 1987	25 July 1987	182 days
16			N. D. Tiwari (1925–2018) Rajya Sabha MP for Uttar Pradesh	25 July 1987	25 June 1988	336 days
17			Shankarrao Chavan (1920–2004) MP for Nanded	25 June 1988	2 December 1989	1 year, 160 days
–			V. P. Singh (1931–2008) MP for Fatehpur (Prime Minister)	2 December 1989	5 December 1989	3 days	Janata Dal	V. P. Singh	V. P. Singh
18			Madhu Dandavate (1924–2005) MP for Rajapur	6 December 1989	10 November 1990	339 days
–			Chandra Shekhar (1927–2007) MP for Ballia (Prime Minister)	10 November 1990	21 November 1990	11 days	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)	Chandra Shekhar	Chandra Shekhar
19			Yashwant Sinha (born 1937) Rajya Sabha MP for Bihar	21 November 1990	21 June 1991	212 days
20			Manmohan Singh (born 1932) Rajya Sabha MP for Assam	21 June 1991	16 May 1996	4 years, 330 days	Indian National Congress (I)	Rao	P. V. Narasimha Rao
21			Jaswant Singh (1938–2020) MP for Chittorgarh	16 May 1996	1 June 1996	16 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Vajpayee I	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
22			P. Chidambaram (born 1945) MP for Sivaganga	1 June 1996	21 April 1997	324 days	Tamil Maanila Congress	Deve Gowda	H. D. Deve Gowda
–			Inder Kumar Gujral (1919–2012) Rajya Sabha MP for Bihar (Prime Minister)	21 April 1997	1 May 1997	10 days	Janata Dal	Gujral	Inder Kumar Gujral
(22)			P. Chidambaram (born 1945) MP for Sivaganga	1 May 1997	19 March 1998	322 days	Tamil Maanila Congress
(19)			Yashwant Sinha (born 1937) MP for Hazaribagh	19 March 1998	13 October 1999	4 years, 104 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Vajpayee II	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
				13 October 1999	1 July 2002			Vajpayee III
(21)			Jaswant Singh (1938–2020) Rajya Sabha MP for Rajasthan	1 July 2002	22 May 2004	1 year, 326 days
(22)			P. Chidambaram (born 1945) MP for Sivaganga	23 May 2004	30 November 2008	4 years, 191 days	Indian National Congress	Manmohan I	Manmohan Singh
–			Manmohan Singh (born 1932) Rajya Sabha MP for Assam (Prime Minister)	30 November 2008	24 January 2009	55 days
(14)			Pranab Mukherjee (1935–2020) MP for Jangipur	24 January 2009	22 May 2009	3 years, 154 days
				23 May 2009	26 June 2012			Manmohan II
–			Manmohan Singh (born 1932) Rajya Sabha MP for Assam (Prime Minister)	26 June 2012	31 July 2012	35 days
(22)			P. Chidambaram (born 1945) MP for Sivaganga	31 July 2012	26 May 2014	1 year, 299 days
23			Arun Jaitley (1952–2019) Rajya Sabha MP for Gujarat, till 2018 Rajya Sabha MP for Uttar Pradesh, from 2018	27 May 2014	14 May 2018	3 years, 352 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Modi I Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=Finance_Minister_of_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