Minister of Finance (India)

The Minister of Finance, also known as the Finance Minister of India is a cabinet position in the Government of India and heads the Ministry of Finance. He drafts the general budget of the country, and is in charge of the national economy. Currently, Pranab Mukherjee holds the charge of finance ministry.

Finance Minister	Term	Education
Liaquat Ali Khan	1946-1947	Aligarh Muslim University; Oxford University; Middle Temple
R. K. Shanmukham Chetty	1947-1949	University of Madras
John Mathai	1949-1951	Madras Christian College
Chintamanrao Deshmukh	1951-1957	Jesus College, Cambridge
T. T. Krishnamachari	1957-1958	University of Madras
Jawaharlal Nehru	1958-1959	Trinity College, Cambridge; Middle Temple
Morarji Desai	1959-1964	University of Bombay
T. T. Krishnamachari	1964-1965	University of Madras
Sachindra Chaudhuri	1965-1967	University of Calcutta
Morarji Desai	1967-1970	University of Bombay
Indira Gandhi	1970-1971	Visva-Bharati University; University of Oxford
Yashwantrao Chavan	1971-1975	Pune University
C. Subramaniam	1975-1977	University of Madras
H M Patel	1977-1979	University of Bombay
Choudhary Charan Singh	1979-1980	Meerut University
Ramaswamy Venkataraman	1980-1982	University of Madras
Pranab Mukherjee	1982-1985	University of Calcutta
V.P. Singh	1985-1987	University of Allahabad; University of Pune
S.B. Chavan	1987-1989	University of Madras; Osmania University
Madhu Dandavate	1989-1990	Royal Institute of Science, University of Bombay
Yashwant Sinha	1990-1991	University of Patna
Manmohan Singh	1991-1996	Panjab University, Chandigarh; St John's College, Cambridge; Nuffield College, Oxford
P.Chidambaram	1996-1998	University of Madras; Harvard Business School
Yashwant Sinha	1998-2002	University of Patna
Jaswant Singh	2002-2004	National Defence Academy (India)
P.Chidambaram	May 2004 - Nov 2008	University of Madras; Harvard Business School
Manmohan Singh	Dec 2008 - Jan 2009	Panjab University, Chandigarh; St John's College, Cambridge; Nuffield College, Oxford
Pranab Mukherjee	Feb 2009 - present	University of Calcutta

External links

• Finance Ministry, Official website