| Post: | Minister of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions |
| Incumbentsince: | 26 May 2014 |
| Department: | Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions |
| Deputy: | Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions |
| First: | Indira Gandhi |
| Appointer: | President |
| Nominator: | Prime minister |
| Incumbent: | Narendra Modi |
| Member Of: | Union Council of Ministers of India |
| Style: | The Honourable |
| Flag: | Flag of India.svg |
| Flagcaption: | Flag of India |
| Flagsize: | 100px |
| Insignia: | Emblem of India.svg |
| Insigniacaption: | State Emblem of India |
| Insigniasize: | 70px |
| Reports To: | President of India Prime Minister of India Parliament of India |
| Unofficial Names: | Personnel Minister, Minister of Personnel |
| Seat: | South Block, Secretariat Building, New Delhi |
The Minister of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions (IAST:) is the cabinet minister in charge of Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions. The position is generally held by the prime minister, but sometimes it has been held by other senior members of the cabinet, such as the Minister of Home Affairs. The minister is generally assisted by a minister of state.
As the Minister of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, the prime minister exercises control over the Indian Administrative Service (IAS),[1] the country's premier civil service,[2] [3] which staffs most of the senior civil service positions; the Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB);[4] [5] and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), except for the selection of its director, who is chosen by a committee of: (a) the prime minister, as chairperson; (b) the leader of the opposition in Lok Sabha; (c) and the chief justice.[6]
| No. | Portrait | Minister[9] [10] | Term of office | Political party | Ministry | Prime Minister | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| From | To | Period | |||||||
| 1 | Ram Niwas Mirdha | 1970 | 1974 | Indian National Congress (R) | Indira II | Indira Gandhi | |||
| Indira III | |||||||||
| 2 | Om Mehta | 1974 | 1977 | ||||||
| 3 | Kamakhya Prasad Singh Deo | 1984 | 1985 | Indian National Congress (I) | Rajiv | Rajiv Gandhi | |||
| 4 | P. Chidambaram | 1985 | 1989 | ||||||
| 5 | Biren Sing Engti | 1986 | 1988 | ||||||
| 6 | Margaret Alva | 1991 | 1996 | Rao | P. V. Narasimha Rao | ||||
| 7 | S. R. Balasubramoniyan | 1996 | 1997 | Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar) | Deve Gowda | H. D. Deve Gowda | |||
1997 | 1998 | Gujral | Inder Kumar Gujral | ||||||
| 8 | Kadambur R. Janarthanan | 1998 | 1999 | All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | Vajpayee II | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | |||
| 9 | Vasundhara Raje | 1999 | 1999 | Bharatiya Janata Party | |||||
1999 | 2003 | Vajpayee III | |||||||
| 10 | Arun Shourie | 1999 | 2001 | ||||||
| 11 | Harin Pathak | 2003 | 2004 | ||||||
| 12 | Suresh Pachouri | 2004 | 2008 | Indian National Congress | Manmohan I | Manmohan Singh | |||
| 13 | Prithviraj Chavan | 2008 | 2009 | ||||||
2009 | 2010 | Manmohan II | |||||||
| 14 | V. Narayanasamy | 2010 | 2014 | ||||||
| 15 | Jitendra Singh | 2014 | 2019 | Bharatiya Janata Party | Modi I | Narendra Modi | |||
2019 | 2024 | Modi II | |||||||
2024 | Incumbent | Modi III | |||||||