Finance Minister of India

Palaniappan Chidambaram, the current Union Finance Minister of India

The Finance Minister of India is a cabinet position in the Government of India. He drafts the general budget of the country, and is in charge of the national economy. P. Chidambaram is the current incumbent.

Finance Minister	Term	Education
Liaquat Ali Khan	1946-1947 (interim government)	Aligarh Muslim University; University of Oxford
R. K. Shanmukham Chetty	1947-1949
John Mathai	1949-1951	University of Oxford
Chintamanrao Deshmukh	1951-1957	Jesus College, Cambridge
T. T. Krishnamachari	1957-1958
Jawaharlal Nehru	1958-1959	Trinity College, Cambridge; Middle Temple
Morarji Desai	1959-1964	Wilson College, Mumbai
T. T. Krishnamachari	1964-1967
Morarji Desai	1967-1970	Wilson College, Mumbai
Indira Gandhi	1970-1971	Visva-Bharati University; University of Oxford
Yashwantrao Chavan	1971-1975
C. Subramaniam	1975-1977	University of Madras
Morarji Desai	1977-1979	Wilson College, Mumbai
Choudhary Charan Singh	1979-1980
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
Madhu Dandavate	1989-1990
Yashwant Sinha	1990-1991	Patna University
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	Patna University
Jaswant Singh	2002-2004
P.Chidambaram	May 2004 - incumbent	University of Madras; Harvard Business School

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