Sl No. Name Duration
1 Gulzari Lal Nanda 17 February 1953 to 21 September 1963
2 V.T. Krishnamachari 17 February 1953 to 21 June 1960
3 C.M. Trivedi 22 September 1963 to 2 December 1963
4 Ashok Mehta 3 December 1963 to 1 September 1967
5 D.R. Gadgil 2 September 1967 to 1 May 1971
6 C. Subramaniam 2 May 1971 to 22 July 1972
7 Durga Prasad Dhar 23 July 1972 to 31 December 1974
8 P.N. Haksar 4 January 1975 to 31 May 1977
9 D.T. Lakdawala 1 June 1977 to 15 February 1980
10 N.D. Tiwari 16 February 1980 to 8 August 1981
11 S.B. Chavan 9 August 1981 to 19 July 1984
12 Prakash Chandra Sethi 20 July 1984 to 31 October 1984
13 P.V. Narasimha Rao 1 November 1984 to14 January 1985
14 Manmohan Singh 15 January 1985 to 31 August 1987
15 P. Shiv Shankar 25 July 1987 to 29 June 1988
16 Madhav Singh Solanki 30 June 1988 to 16 August 1989
17 Ramakrishna Hegde 5 December 1989 to 6 July 1990
18 Madhu Dandavate 7 July 1990 to 10 December 1990
19 Mohan Dharia 11 December 1990 to 24 June 1991
20 Pranab Mukherjee 24 June 1991 to 15 May 1996
21 Madhu Dandavate 1 August 1996 to 21 March 1998
22 Jaswant Singh 25 March 1998 to 4 February 1999
23 K.C. Pant 5 February 1999 to 17 June 2004
24 Montek Singh Ahluwalia 6 July 2004 to till now