Today we are presenting you a short notes on Finance
Ministers of India from the year of 1947 to till date. We hope it will be very
helpful for your upcoming RRB NTPC 2016, SSC CGL 2016 and others exams. Even
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List of Finance Ministers of India
|
Name
of the Finance Minister
|
Term
of Office
|
Position
|
|
R.K.Shanmukham
Chetty
|
1947-1949
|
First Finance Minister
of India
|
|
John
Mathai
|
1949-1951
|
|
|
Chintamanrao
Deshmukh
|
1951-1957
|
3rd Finance
Minister of India
|
|
Jawaharlal
Nehru
|
1958-1959
|
4th Finance
Minister of India
|
|
T.T.Krishnamachari
|
1964-1965, 1957-1958
|
5th Finance
Minister of India
|
|
Morarji
Desai
|
1959-1964, 1967-1970
|
6th Finance
Minister of India
|
|
Indira
Gandhi
|
1970-1971
|
7th Finance
Minister of India
|
|
Yashwantrao
Chavan
|
1971-1975
|
8th Finance
Minister of India
|
|
C.Subramaniam
|
1975-1977
|
9th Finance
Minister of India
|
|
H. M.
Patel
|
1977-1979
|
10th Finance
Minister of India
|
|
Choudhary
Charan Singh
|
1979-1980
|
11th Finance
Minister of India
|
|
Ramaswamy
Venkataraman
|
1980-1982
|
12th Finance
Minister of India
|
|
V. P.
Singh
|
1985-1987
|
13th Finance
Minister of India
|
|
Rajiv
Gandhi
|
1987-1988
|
14th Finance
Minister of India
|
|
N.D.Tiwari
|
1988-1989
|
15th Finance
Minister of India
|
|
S.B.Chavan
|
1989-1990
|
16th Finance
Minister of India
|
|
Madhu
Dandavate
|
1990-1991
|
17th Finance
Minister of India
|
|
Yashwant
Sinha
|
1991-1992, 1998-2003
|
18th Finance
Minister of India
|
|
Jaswant
Singh
|
2003-2005
|
19th Finance
Minister of India
|
|
Manmohan
Singh
|
1991-1997, Dec
2008-Jan 2009
|
20th Finance
Minister of India
|
|
Pranab
Mukherjee
|
1982-1985, Feb
2009-May 2009, May 2009-June 2012
|
21st Finance
Minister of India
|
|
P.
Chidambaram
|
1996-1997, May
2004-Nov 2009, July 2012-Apr 2014
|
22nd Finance
Minister of India
|
|
Arun
Jaitley
|
May 2014 - Present
|
23rd Finance
Minister of India
|
