Post: | Minister of Water Resources Development |
Insignia: | Emblem of Andhra Pradesh.svg |
Insigniasize: | 200 |
Flagcaption: | Emblem of Andhra Pradesh |
Incumbent: | Nimmala Rama Naidu |
Incumbentsince: | 12 June 2024 |
Department: | Department of Water Resources Development |
Member Of: | Andha Pradesh Cabinet |
Reports To: | Governor of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh Legislature |
Appointer: | Governor of Andhra Pradesh |
Appointer Qualified: | on the advice of the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh |
Inaugural: | Devineni Uma Maheswara Rao |
Formation: | 8 June 2014 |
The Minister of Water Resources Development or Irrigation Minister, officially Minister of Water Resources Development, is the head of the Department of Water Resources Development of the Government of Andhra Pradesh.
From June 2014 to May 2019, following the bifurcation of United Andhra Pradesh into the present-day residual Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, the Irrigation Minister of Andhra Pradesh was Devineni Uma Maheswara Rao of the Telugu Desam Party. Following the cabinet formation on 12 June 2024, Nimmala Rama Naidu assumed the office under the Chief Ministership of N. Chandrababu Naidu.
Portrait | Minister | Term of office | Election | Party | Ministry | Chief Minister | Ref. | |||||
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Term start | Term end | Duration | ||||||||||
1 | Devineni Uma Maheswara Rao | 8 June 2014 | 29 May 2019 | 2014 | Telugu Desam Party | Naidu III | [1] | |||||
2 | Anil Kumar Poluboina | 8 June 2019 | 7 April 2022 | 2019 | YSR Congress Party | Jagan | Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy | [2] | ||||
3 | Ambati Rambabu | 11 April 2022 | 8 June 2024 | [3] | ||||||||
4 | Nimmala Rama Naidu | 12 June 2024 | Incumbent | 2024 | Telugu Desam Party | Naidu IV | [4] |