Today we are presenting you a short notes on Finance Ministers of India from the year of 1947 to till date. We hope it will be very helpful for your upcoming RRB NTPC 2016, SSC CGL 2016 and others exams. Even IBPS asked "Who was the India's first Finance Minister?" in IBPS Clerk - V. We are also providing you a free PDF file of this article. Read it.
List of Finance Ministers of India
| Name of the Finance Minister | Term of Office | Position |
| R.K.Shanmukham Chetty | 1947-1949 | First Finance Minister of India |
| John Mathai | 1949-1951 | 2nd Finance Minister of India
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| Chintamanrao Deshmukh | 1951-1957 | 3rd Finance Minister of India |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | 1958-1959 | 4th Finance Minister of India |
| T.T.Krishnamachari | 1964-1965, 1957-1958 | 5th Finance Minister of India |
| Morarji Desai | 1959-1964, 1967-1970 | 6th Finance Minister of India |
| Indira Gandhi | 1970-1971 | 7th Finance Minister of India |
| Yashwantrao Chavan | 1971-1975 | 8th Finance Minister of India |
| C.Subramaniam | 1975-1977 | 9th Finance Minister of India |
| H. M. Patel | 1977-1979 | 10th Finance Minister of India |
| Choudhary Charan Singh | 1979-1980 | 11th Finance Minister of India |
| Ramaswamy Venkataraman | 1980-1982 | 12th Finance Minister of India |
| V. P. Singh | 1985-1987 | 13th Finance Minister of India |
| Rajiv Gandhi | 1987-1988 | 14th Finance Minister of India |
| N.D.Tiwari | 1988-1989 | 15th Finance Minister of India |
| S.B.Chavan | 1989-1990 | 16th Finance Minister of India |
| Madhu Dandavate | 1990-1991 | 17th Finance Minister of India |
| Yashwant Sinha | 1991-1992, 1998-2003 | 18th Finance Minister of India |
| Jaswant Singh | 2003-2005 | 19th Finance Minister of India |
| Manmohan Singh | 1991-1997, Dec 2008-Jan 2009 | 20th Finance Minister of India |
| Pranab Mukherjee | 1982-1985, Feb 2009-May 2009, May 2009-June 2012 | 21st Finance Minister of India |
| P. Chidambaram | 1996-1997, May 2004-Nov 2009, July 2012-Apr 2014 | 22nd Finance Minister of India |
| Arun Jaitley | May 2014 - Present | 23rd Finance Minister of India |
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