The Minister of Education of India (shiksha mantri) is presently “Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank” in 2020. According to the new education policy, the name of Human Resource Development Minister has been changed to Education Minister. Earlier the Minister of Education was known as the Minister of Human Resource Development (HRD MINISTER). Ramesh Pokhriyal was sworn in as the new Education Minister of India on 30 May 2019.
The first Education Minister of India was APJ Abdul Kalam whose tenure was from 15 August 1947 to 22 January 1958 and his tenure was 10 years and 5 months.
Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank was born on 15 July 1959 in Pauri Garhwal of Uttarakhand state. In 1991, he was elected for the first time from the Bharatiya Janata Party MLA from Karnprayag seat in the then Uttar Pradesh. After this, he was elected MLA for three consecutive terms. He went on to become the minister of many departments after the formation of Uttarakhand in the year 2000, then in 2009 he became the youngest Chief Minister of Uttarakhand.
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He is currently a Member of Parliament from Haridwar seat, who has been elected for the second time since 2014. Along with politics, he is also a Hindi poet. He has also been associated with the literary genre. He has taken a respectable place in many genres of Hindi, such as poetry, novel, block poetry, short story, travel literature, etc. Former President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has also received Sahitya Gaurav Samman. Apart from this, he has received many honors at national and international level.
List of Education Ministers of India (1947-2020)
| Sl No. | Name | Term of office | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad | 15 August 1947 | 22 January 1958 |
| 2 | K. L. Shrimali | 22 January 1958 | 31 August 1963 |
| 3 | Humayun Kabir | 1 September 1963 | 21 November 1963 |
| 4 | M. C. Chagla | 21 November 1963 | 13 November 1966 |
| 5 | Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed | 14 November 1966 | 13 March 1967 |
| 6 | Triguna Sen | 16 March 1967 | 14 February 1969 |
| 7 | V. K. R. V. Rao | 14 February 1969 | 18 March 1971 |
| 8 | Siddhartha Shankar Ray | 18 March 1971 | 20 March 1972 |
| 9 | S. Nurul Hasan | 24 March 1972 | 24 March 1977 |
| 10 | Pratap Chandra Chunder | 26 March 1977 | 28 July 1979 |
| 11 | Karan Singh | 30 July 1979 | 14 January 1980 |
| 12 | B. Shankaranand | 14 January 1980 | 17 October 1980 |
| 13 | Shankarrao Chavan | 17 October 1980 | 8 August 1981 |
| 14 | Sheila Kaul | 10 August 1981 | 31 December 1984 |
| 15 | K. C. Pant | 31 December 1984 | 25 September 1985 |
| 16 | P. V. Narasimha Rao | 25 September 1985 | 25 June 1988 |
| 17 | P. Shiv Shankar | 25 June 1988 | 2 December 1989 |
| 18 | V. P. Singh | 2 December 1989 | 10 November 1990 |
| 19 | Rajmangal Pandey | 21 November 1990 | 21 June 1991 |
| 20 | Arjun Singh | 23 June 1991 | 24 December 1994 |
| (16) | P. V. Narasimha Rao | 25 December 1994 | 9 February 1995 |
| 21 | Madhavrao Scindia | 10 February 1995 | 17 January 1996 |
| (16) | P. V. Narasimha Rao | 17 January 1996 | 16 May 1996 |
| 22 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | 16 May 1996 | 1 June 1996 |
| 23 | S. R. Bommai | 5 June 1996 | 19 March 1998 |
| 24 | Murli Manohar Joshi | 19 March 1998 | 21 May 2004 |
| 25 | Arjun Singh | 22 May 2004 | 22 May 2009 |
| 26 | Kapil Sibal | 29 May 2009 | 29 October 2012 |
| 27 | M. M. Pallam Raju | 30 October 2012 | 26 May 2014 |
| 28 | Smriti Irani | 26 May 2014 | 5 July 2016 |
| 29 | Prakash Javadekar | 5 July 2016 | 31 May 2019 |
| 30 | Ramesh Pokhriyal | 30 May 2019 | 29 July 2020 |
| 30 | Ramesh Pokhriyal | 29 July 2020 | Incumbent |