Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India) explained

Agency Name:	Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of India
Seal:	Government of India logo.svg
Formed:	15 August 1947; 75 years ago
Jurisdiction:	Government of India
Headquarters:	New Delhi
Chief1 Name:	Sanjay Jaju, IAS
Chief1 Position:	Information and Broadcasting Secretary
Budget:	(2023-24 est.)^[1]
Employees:	4,012 (2016 est.)^[2]
Minister1 Name:	Ashwini Vaishnaw
Minister1 Pfo:	Minister of Information and Broadcasting
Deputyminister1 Name:	L. Murugan
Deputyminister1 Pfo:	Minister of State

Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (Ministry of I&B) is a ministerial level agency of the Government of India responsible for the formulation and administration of rules, regulations and laws in the areas of information, broadcasting, the press and the Cinema of India.^[3]

The Ministry is responsible for the administration of Press Information Bureau, Prasar Bharati, the broadcasting arm of the Indian Government. The Central Board of Film Certification is the other important statutory body under this ministry being responsible for the regulation of motion pictures broadcast in India.

Organisation

• Broadcasting
  • Conditional Access System (CAS)
  • Community Radio Stations
  • Prasar Bharati
  • Doordarshan
  • Akashvani (All India Radio)
  • Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Limited
  • Uplinking / Downlinking of TV Channels
  • Content Regulation on Private TV Channels
  • Direct to Home (DTH)
  • Internet Protocol Television (IPTV)
  • Headend-in-the-Sky (HITS)
  • Digital television transition
  • Radio And Television Licence Around The World
  • Broadcasting Authority of India 1977
• Information
  • Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity (DAVP), Central Bureau of Communication (CBC)
  • Directorate of Field Publicity
  • Photo Division
  • Publications Division
  • Research Reference and Training Division
  • Song and Drama Division
  • Office of the Registrar of Newspapers for India (RNI)
  • Press Council of India
  • Press Information Bureau (PIB)
  • Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC)
• Films
  • Central Board of Film Certification
  • Film and Television Institute of India, Pune (FTII)
  • Film Certification Appellate Tribunal
  • Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI)
  • National Film Development Corporation

Mandate

The mandate of the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting are:

• News Services through All India Radio (AIR) and Doordarshan (DD) for the people.
• Development of broadcasting and television.
• Import and export of films.
• Development and promotion of film industry.
• Organisation of film festivals and cultural exchanges for the purpose.
• Directorate of Advertising and visual publicity DAVP
• Handling of press relations to present the policies of Government of India and to get feedback on the Government policies.
• Administration of the Press and Registration of Books Act, 1867 in respect to newspapers.
• Dissemination of information about India within and outside the country through publications on matters of national importance.
• Research, Reference and Training to assist the media units of the Ministry to meet their responsibilities.
• Use of interpersonal communication and traditional folk art forms for information publicity campaigns on public interest issues.
• International cooperation in the field of information and mass media.

Civil Service

See main article: Indian Information Service.

The Indian Information Service (IIS) is one of the Group ‘A’ Civil Services options available for candidates who successfully clear the UPSC Civil Service Examination. This is the media wing of the Government of India. They act as the bridge of communication between the Government of India and the Public. IIS cadre officers work under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.

List of Ministers

Cabinet Ministers

Note:

• MoS (I/C) Minister of State (Independent Charge)
• MoS Minister of State

	Portrait		Minister	Term of office			Political party	Ministry	Prime Minister
				From	To	Period
1			Vallabhbhai Patel (Deputy Prime Minister)	15 August 1947	26 January 1950		Indian National Congress	Nehru I	Jawaharlal Nehru
2			R. R. Diwakar (MoS)	31 January 1950	13 May 1952
3			B. V. Keskar (Minister with cabinet rank, until 1957; MoS, until 1962)	13 May 1952	17 April 1957			Nehru II
				17 April 1957	9 April 1962			Nehru III
4			Bezawada Gopala Reddy	10 April 1962	31 August 1963			Nehru IV
5			Satya Narayan Sinha	1 September 1963	27 May 1964
				27 May 1964	9 June 1964			Nanda I	Gulzarilal Nanda (acting)
				11 June 1964	2 July 1964			Shastri	Lal Bahadur Shastri
6			Indira Gandhi	2 July 1964	11 January 1966
				11 January 1966	24 January 1966			Nanda II	Gulzarilal Nanda (acting)
7			Raj Bahadur (MoS)	24 January 1966	13 March 1967			Indira I	Indira Gandhi
8			Kodardas Kalidas Shah	13 March 1967	14 February 1969			Indira II
(5)			Satya Narayan Sinha	14 February 1969	8 March 1971		Indian National Congress (R)
			Indira Gandhi (Prime Minister)	18 March 1971	8 November 1973			Indira III
9			Inder Kumar Gujral (MoS)	8 November 1973	28 June 1975
10			Vidya Charan Shukla (MoS)	28 June 1975	24 March 1977
11			Lal Krishna Advani	26 March 1977	28 July 1979		Janata Party	Desai	Morarji Desai
12			Purushottam Kaushik	28 July 1979	14 January 1980		Janata Party (Secular)	Charan Singh	Charan Singh
13			Vasant Sathe	14 January 1980	2 September 1982		Indian National Congress (Indira)	Indira IV	Indira Gandhi
14			N. K. P. Salve (MoS, I/C)	2 September 1982	14 January 1983
15			H. K. L. Bhagat (MoS, I/C)	14 January 1983	31 October 1984
				4 November 1984	31 December 1984			Rajiv I	Rajiv Gandhi
16			Vitthalrao Gadgil (MoS, I/C)	31 December 1984	22 October 1986			Rajiv II
17			Ajit Kumar Panja (MoS, I/C)	22 October 1986	14 February 1988
(15)			H. K. L. Bhagat	14 February 1988	2 December 1989
18			P. Upendra	6 December 1989	10 November 1990		Telugu Desam Party	Vishwanath	V. P. Singh
			Chandra Shekhar (Prime Minister)	21 November 1990	21 June 1991		Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)	Chandra Shekhar	Chandra Shekhar
(17)			Ajit Kumar Panja (MoS, I/C)	21 June 1991	18 January 1993		Indian National Congress	Rao	P. V. Narasimha Rao
19			Kamakhya Prasad Singh Deo (MoS, I/C)	18 January 1993	15 September 1995
20			P. A. Sangma	15 September 1995	16 May 1996
21			Sushma Swaraj	16 May 1996	1 June 1996		Bharatiya Janata Party	Vajpayee I	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
22			C. M. Ibrahim	1 June 1996	21 April 1997		Janata Dal	Deve Gowda	H. D. Deve Gowda
				21 April 1997	1 May 1997			Gujral	Inder Kumar Gujral
23			S. Jaipal Reddy	1 May 1997	19 March 1998
(21)			Sushma Swaraj	19 March 1998	11 October 1998		Bharatiya Janata Party	Vajpayee II	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
			Atal Bihari Vajpayee (Prime Minister)	11 October 1998	5 December 1998
24			Pramod Mahajan	5 December 1998	13 October 1999
25			Arun Jaitley (MoS, I/C)	13 October 1999	30 September 2000			Vajpayee III
(21)			Sushma Swaraj	30 September 2000	29 January 2003
26			Ravi Shankar Prasad (MoS, I/C)	29 January 2003	22 May 2004
(23)			S. Jaipal Reddy	23 May 2004	18 November 2005		Indian National Congress	Manmohan I	Manmohan Singh
27			Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi	18 November 2005	11 November 2008
			Manmohan Singh (Prime Minister)	11 November 2008	22 May 2009
28			Ambika Soni	28 May 2009	27 October 2012			Manmohan II
29			Manish Tewari (MoS, I/C)	28 October 2012	26 May 2014
30			Prakash Javadekar (MoS, I/C)	27 May 2014	9 November 2014		Bharatiya Janata Party	Modi I	Narendra Modi
(25)			Arun Jaitley	9 November 2014	5 July 2016
31			M. Venkaiah Naidu	5 July 2016	18 July 2017
32			Smriti Irani	18 July 2017	14 May 2018
33			Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (MoS, I/C)	14 May 2018	30 May 2019
(30)			Prakash Javadekar	31 May 2019	7 July 2021			Modi II
34			Anurag Singh Thakur	7 July 2021	9 June 2024
35			Ashwini Vaishnaw	10 June 2024	Incumbent			Modi III

Ministers of State

	Portrait		Minister	Term of office			Political party	Ministry	Prime Minister
				From	To	Period
1			R. R. Diwakar	7 October 1948	26 January 1950		Indian National Congress	Nehru I	Jawaharlal Nehru
2			Inder Kumar Gujral	14 February 1971	18 March 1971			Indira II	Indira Gandhi
3			Sher Singh Kadyan
4			Nandini Satpathy	18 March 1971	14 June 1972		Indian National Congress (R)	Indira III
(2)			Inder Kumar Gujral	22 July 1972	8 November 1973
5			Jagbir Singh	14 August 1977	11 July 1978		Janata Party	Desai	Morarji Desai
				26 January 1979	15 July 1979
6			Ram Dulari Sinha	8 June 1980	19 October 1980		Indian National Congress (I)	Indira IV	Indira Gandhi
7			S. Krishna Kumar	25 June 1988	2 December 1989
8			Kamla Kant Tiwari	22 April 1989	2 December 1989
9			Subodh Kant Sahay	21 November 1990	21 June 1991		Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)	Chandra Shekhar	Chandra Shekhar
10			P. M. Sayeed	15 September 1995	16 May 1996		Indian National Congress	Rao	P. V. Narasimha Rao
11			Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi	20 March 1998	13 October 1999		Bharatiya Janata Party	Vajpayee II	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
12			Ramesh Bais	30 September 2000	29 January 2003			Vajpayee III
13			M. H. Ambareesh	24 October 2006	15 February 2007		Indian National Congress	Manmohan I	Manmohan Singh
14			Anand Sharma	18 October 2008	22 May 2009
15			Choudhury Mohan Jatua	28 May 2009	22 September 2012		All India Trinamool Congress	Manmohan II
16			S. Jagathrakshakan	28 May 2009	28 October 2012		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
17			Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore	9 November 2014	14 May 2018		Bharatiya Janata Party	Modi I	Narendra Modi
18			L. Murugan	7 July 2021	Incumbent			Modi II

Deputy Ministers

	Portrait		Minister	Term of office			Political party	Ministry	Prime Minister
				From	To	Period
1			Sham Nath	8 May 1962	27 May 1964		Indian National Congress	Nehru IV	Jawaharlal Nehru
				27 May 1964	9 June 1964			Nanda I	Gulzarilal Nanda (acting)
2			C. R. Pattabhiraman	15 June 1964	11 January 1966			Shastri	Lal Bahadur Shastri
				11 January 1966	24 January 1966			Nanda II	Gulzarilal Nanda (acting)
3			Nandini Satpathy	29 January 1966	13 March 1967			Indira I	Indira Gandhi
				18 March 1967	14 February 1969			Indira II
4			Dharam Bir Sinha	2 May 1971	23 March 1977		Indian National Congress (R)	Indira III
5			Kumudben Joshi	19 January 1980	15 January 1982		Indian National Congress (I)	Indira IV
6			Mallikarjun Goud	15 January 1982	7 February 1984
7			Arif Mohammad Khan	15 January 1982	29 January 1983
8			Ghulam Nabi Azad	8 February 1984	31 October 1984
9			S. Krishna Kumar	14 February 1988	25 June 1988			Rajiv II	Rajiv Gandhi
10			Girija Vyas	21 June 1991	17 March 1993		Indian National Congress	Rao	P. V. Narasimha Rao

See also

• Censor Board of India
• Indian Information Service

External links

• Official website of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting

Notes and References

1. Web site: Budget data . 2022 . www.indiabudget.gov.in.
2. Web site: Central govt to hire 2.8 lakh more staff, police, I-T & customs to get lion's share - Times of India. The Times of India.
3. http://mib.gov.in/ShowContentOne.aspx?id=1&Section=7 About Us Main Page