Ministry of Commerce and Industry (India)

Ministry of Commerce and Industry (India)

Branch of Government of India
Ministry of Commerce & Industry
Agency overview
Jurisdiction	Government of India
Headquarters	Vanijya Bhawan 16, Akbar Road, New Delhi, Delhi, India
Agency executives	Piyush Goyal, Cabinet Minister Jitin Prasada, Minister of State
Website	Department of Commerce [1] Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade

The Ministry of Commerce and Industry administers two departments, the Department of Commerce and the Department for Promotion of Industry & Internal Trade. The head of the Ministry is a Minister of Cabinet rank.

The Minister of Commerce and Industry is the head of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and one of the cabinet ministers of the Government of India. The first Minister of Commerce and Industry of independent India was Syama Prasad Mukherjee. The current Minister is Piyush Goyal of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Goyal took over from Suresh Prabhu on 31 May 2019.^[2]

#	Portrait	Name	Term of office			Prime Minister	Party
1		Syama Prasad Mukherjee	15 August 1947	19 April 1950	2 years, 247 days	Jawaharlal Nehru	Bharatiya Jana Sangh
2		Jawaharlal Nehru	19 April 1950	13 May 1950	24 days		Indian National Congress
3		Harekrushna Mahtab	13 May 1950	13 May 1952	2 years, 0 days
4		T. T. Krishnamachari	13 May 1952	30 August 1956	4 years, 109 days
5		Morarji Desai	1 January 1957	28 March 1958	1 year, 86 days
6		Lal Bahadur Shastri	28 March 1958	5 April 1961	3 years, 8 days
7		K. Chengalaraya Reddy	5 April 1961	19 July 1963	2 years, 105 days
8		Nityanand Kanungo	19 July 1963	9 June 1964	326 days
9		Ram Subhag Singh	9 June 1964	13 June 1964	4 days	Lal Bahadur Shastri
10		H. C. Dasappa	19 July 1964	29 October 1964	102 days
11		Tribhuvan Narain Singh	30 October 1964	24 January 1966	1 year, 86 days
12		Damodaram Sanjivayya	24 January 1966	13 March 1967	1 year, 48 days	Indira Gandhi
13		Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed	13 March 1967	27 June 1970	3 years, 106 days
14		Dinesh Singh	27 June 1970	18 March 1971	264 days
15		Moinul Hoque Choudhury	18 March 1971	22 July 1972	1 year, 126 days
16		Chidambaram Subramaniam	22 July 1972	10 October 1974	2 years, 80 days
17		T. A. Pai	10 October 1974	24 March 1977	2 years, 165 days
18		Brij Lal Varma	28 March 1977	6 July 1977	100 days	Morarji Desai	Janata Party
19		George Fernandes	6 July 1977	15 July 1977	2 years, 9 days
20		Kasu Brahmananda Reddy	30 July 1979	27 November 1979	120 days	Charan Singh	Indian National Congress (Urs)
(16)		T. A. Pai	27 November 1979	14 January 1980	48 days
21		N. D. Tiwari	8 August 1981	3 August 1984	2 years, 361 days	Indira Gandhi	Indian National Congress
22		Indira Gandhi	3 August 1984	14 August 1984	11 days
23		V. P. Singh	14 August 1984	7 September 1984	24 days
24		Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy	7 September 1984	31 December 1984	115 days
25		Rajiv Gandhi	31 December 1984	14 January 1985	14 days	Rajiv Gandhi
26		Veerendra Patil	14 January 1985	25 September 1985	254 days
(20)		N. D. Tiwari	25 September 1985	22 October 1986	1 year, 27 days
27		Jalagam Vengala Rao	22 October 1986	2 December 1989	3 years, 41 days
28		Ajit Singh	5 December 1989	10 November 1990	340 days	V. P. Singh	Janata Dal
29		Chandra Shekhar	21 November 1990	21 June 1991	212 days	Chandra Shekhar	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)
30		K. Karunakaran	11 June 1995	16 May 1996	340 days	P. V. Narasimha Rao	Indian National Congress
31		Suresh Prabhu	16 May 1996	1 June 1996	16 days	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	Shiv Sena
32		Murasoli Maran	1 June 1996	19 March 1998	1 year, 291 days	H. D. Dewe Gowda	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
33		Sikander Bakht	19 March 1998	13 October 1999	1 year, 208 days	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	Bharatiya Janata Party

#	Portrait	Name	Term of office			Prime Minister	Party
1		C. H. Bhabha	15 August 1947	6 April 1948	235 days	Jawaharlal Nehru	Indian National Congress
2		Kshitish Chandra Neogy	6 April 1948	19 April 1950	2 years, 13 days
3		Jawaharlal Nehru	19 April 1950	29 May 1950	40 days
4		Sri Prakasa	29 May 1950	26 December 1950	211 days
5		Harekrushna Mahatab	26 December 1950	13 May 1952	1 year, 139 days
6		T. T. Krishnamachari	13 May 1952	30 August 1956	4 years, 109 days
7		Swaran Singh	30 August 1956	14 November 1956	76 days
8		Morarji Desai	14 November 1956	28 March 1958	1 year, 134 days
9		Lal Bahadur Shastri	28 March 1958	5 April 1961	3 years, 8 days
10		K. Chengalaraya Reddy	5 April 1961	19 July 1963	2 years, 105 days
11		Manubhai Shah	19 July 1963	13 March 1967	3 years, 237 days	Lal Bahadur Shastri
12		Dinesh Singh	13 March 1967	14 February 1969	1 year, 338 days	Indira Gandhi
13		Bali Ram Bhagat	14 February 1969	27 June 1970	1 year, 133 days
14		Lalit Narayan Mishra (MoS)	27 June 1970	5 February 1973	2 years, 223 days
15		D. P. Chattopadhyay	5 February 1973	24 March 1977	4 years, 47 days
16		Mohan Dharia	26 March 1977	28 July 1979	2 years, 124 days	Morarji Desai	Janata Party
17		Charan Singh	28 July 1979	30 July 1979	2 days	Charan Singh	Janata Party (Secular)
18		Hitendra Desai	30 July 1979	14 January 1980	168 days
19		Pranab Mukherjee	14 January 1980	15 January 1982	2 years, 1 day	Indira Gandhi	Indian National Congress
20		Shivraj Patil	15 January 1982	29 January 1983	1 year, 14 days
21		V. P. Singh	29 January 1983	7 September 1984	1 year, 222 days
(19)		Pranab Mukherjee	7 September 1984	31 December 1984	115 days	Indira Gandhi Rajiv Gandhi
22		Rajiv Gandhi	31 December 1984	14 January 1985	14 days	Rajiv Gandhi
(21)		V. P. Singh	14 January 1985	25 September 1985	254 days
23		Arjun Singh	15 November 1985	20 January 1986	66 days
24		P. Shiv Shankar	20 January 1986	25 July 1987	1 year, 186 days
25		N. D. Tiwari	25 July 1987	25 June 1988	336 days
(12)		Dinesh Singh	25 June 1988	2 December 1989	1 year, 160 days
(21)		V. P. Singh	2 December 1989	6 December 1989	4 days	V. P. Singh	Janata Dal
26		Arun Nehru	6 December 1989	10 November 1990	339 days
27		Chandra Shekhar	10 November 1990	21 November 1990	11 days	Chandra Shekhar	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)
28		Subramanian Swamy	21 November 1990	21 June 1991	212 days		Janata Party
29		P Chidambaram	21 June 1991	9 July 1992	1 year, 18 days	P. V. Narasimha Rao	Indian National Congress
30		P. V. Narasimha Rao	9 July 1992	18 January 1993	193 days
(19)		Pranab Mukherjee	18 January 1993	10 February 1995	2 years, 23 days
29		P Chidambaram	10 February 1995	3 April 1996	1 year, 53 days
(30)		P. V. Narasimha Rao	3 April 1996	16 May 1996	43 days
31		Atal Bihari Vajpayee	16 May 1996	1 June 1996	16 days	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	Bharatiya Janata Party
32		Devendra Prasad Yadav	1 June 1996	29 June 1996	28 days	Dewe Gowda	Janata Dal
33		Bolla Bulli Ramaiah	29 June 1996	19 March 1998	1 year, 263 days	Dewe Gowda I. K. Gujral	Telugu Desam Party
34		Ramakrishna Hegde	19 March 1998	13 October 1999	1 year, 208 days	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	Lok Shakti

#	Portrait	Name	Term of office			Prime Minister	Party
1		Murasoli Maran	13 October 1999	9 November 2002	3 years, 27 days	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
2		Arun Shourie	9 November 2002	29 January 2003	81 days		Bharatiya Janata Party
3		Arun Jaitley	29 January 2003	22 May 2004	1 year, 114 days
4		Kamal Nath	22 May 2004	22 May 2009	5 years, 0 days	Manmohan Singh	Indian National Congress
5		Anand Sharma	22 May 2009	26 May 2014	5 years, 4 days
6		Nirmala Sitharaman	26 May 2014	3 September 2017	3 years, 100 days	Narendra Modi	Bharatiya Janata Party
7		Suresh Prabhu	3 September 2017	30 May 2019	1 year, 269 days
8		Piyush Goyal	30 May 2019	Incumbent	5 years, 163 days

Ministers of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry

Portrait	Name	Term of office			Prime Minister	Party
C. R. Chaudhary		3 September 2017	30 May 2019	1 year, 269 days	Narendra Modi	Bharatiya Janata Party
Hardeep Singh Puri		30 May 2019	7 July 2021	2 years, 38 days
Som Parkash		30 May 2019	Incumbent	5 years, 163 days
Anupriya Patel		7 July 2021	Incumbent	3 years, 125 days		Apna Dal (Sonelal)
Jitin Prasada		9 June 2024	Incumbent	153 days		Bharatiya Janata Party

The department is entrusted with formulating and implementing the foreign trade policy and responsibilities relating to multilateral and bilateral commercial relations, state trading, export promotion measures, and development and regulation of certain export oriented industries and commodities.

In order for the smooth functioning, the department is divided into eight divisions:^[3]

• Administrative and General Division

  

• Finance Division
• Economic Division
• Trade Policy Division
• Foreign Trade Territorial Division
• State Trading & Infrastructure Division
• Supply Division
• Plantation Division

The subjects under the administrative control of the Department include:^[4]

• International trade
• Foreign Trade
• State trading
• Management of Indian Trade Services
• Special Economic Zones

This department was established in the year 1995, and in the year 2000 Department of Industrial Development was merged with it. This department is responsible for formulation and implementation of promotional and developmental measures for growth of the industrial sector, keeping in view the national priorities and socio-economic objectives. While individual administrative ministries look after the production, distribution, development and planning aspects of specific industries allocated to them, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade is responsible for the overall Industrial Policy. It is also responsible for facilitating and increasing the FDI flows to the country. It is also responsible to calculate WPI (I.e. Wholesale Price Index).

The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade is also responsible for intellectual property rights relating to patents, designs, trademarks, copyrights and geographical indication of goods and oversees the initiative relating to their promotion and protection.

Recently instituted National Startup Award by ministry of commerce and industry recognised 46 startups ^[5] on the eve of First National Startup Day announced by Hon'ble Prime Minister Narendra Modi. udChalo, Ratan Tata backed Repos and others remarkable startups ^[6] are among the winners.

• Make in India
• Indian Trade Service
• Foreign trade of India
• Special economic zone
• Directorate General of Foreign Trade
• List of largest trading partners of India
• Multi-Modal Logistics Parks in India

• Department of Commerce
• Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade