Nirmala Sitharaman

Indian economist and politician (born 1959)

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Nirmala Sitharaman

Sitharaman in 2023

Minister of Finance

Incumbent

Assumed office
30 May 2019
Prime Minister| Narendra Modi
Preceded by| Arun Jaitley
Minister of Corporate Affairs

Incumbent

Assumed office
30 May 2019
Prime Minister| Narendra Modi
Preceded by| Arun Jaitley
Minister of Defence
In office
3 September 2017 – 30 May 2019
Prime Minister| Narendra Modi
Preceded by| Arun Jaitley
Succeeded by| Rajnath Singh
Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Ministry of Commerce and Industry
In office
26 May 2014 – 3 September 2017
Prime Minister| Narendra Modi
Preceded by| Anand Sharma
Succeeded by| Suresh Prabhu
Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs
In office
26 May 2014 – 9 November 2014
Prime Minister| Narendra Modi
Preceded by| Shripad Naik (Finance)
Office established (Corporate Affairs)
Succeeded by| Jayant Sinha (Finance)
Arjun Ram Meghwal (Corporate Affairs)
Member of the Rajya Sabha

Incumbent

Assumed office
1 July 2016
Preceded by| M. Venkaiah Naidu (BJP)
Constituency| Karnataka
In office
26 June 2014 – 21 June 2016
Preceded by| N. Janardhana Reddy (INC)
Succeeded by| Suresh Prabhu (BJP)
Constituency| Andhra Pradesh
Personal details
Born|  (1959-08-18) 18 August 1959 (age 64)
Madurai, Madras State, India (present-day Tamil Nadu)
Political party| Bharatiya Janata Party
Spouse|

Parakala Prabhakar

(m. 1986)​

Children| 1
Education| Seethalakshmi Ramaswami College (BA)
Jawaharlal Nehru University (MA, MPhil)

Nirmala Sitharaman (born 18 August 1959)[1] is an Indian economist, politician and a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) serving as the Minister of Finance and Minister of Corporate Affairs of the Government of India since 2019. She is a member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament, representing Karnataka since 2016 and previously represented Andhra Pradesh from 2014 to 2016. Sitharaman previously served as the 28th Defence Minister from 2017 to 2019, thereby becoming India's second female defence minister and the second female finance minister after Indira Gandhi, and the first full-time female minister to hold each of those portfolios. She served as junior minister in the Modi ministry between 2014 and 2017, holding successive positions, first for her dual appointment as the Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance and the Minister of State in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs from May to November 2014, and then as the Minister of State (Independent Charge) for the Ministry of Commerce and Industry from May 2014 to September 2017, before being elevated to senior posts within the Union Cabinet. [2]

Sitharaman featured in the Forbes 2022 list of World's 100 most powerful women and was ranked 36.[3] Fortune named her the most powerful woman in India.[4]

## Early life[edit]

Nirmala Sitharaman was born in a Tamil Iyengar family[5] in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, to Savitri and Narayanan Sitharaman. She had her schooling from Sacred Heart Convent Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School[6] Villupuram till primary level and also from Madras and Tiruchirappalli.[7] She obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics at the Seethalakshmi Ramaswami College, Tiruchirapalli in 1980, Master of Arts degree in economics and M.Phil. from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi in 1984.[8][9][10] She then enrolled for a Ph.D. program in Economics with a focus on Indo-Europe trade; but later left this program and moved to London (when her husband secured a scholarship in London School of Economics) because of which she was unable to complete her degree.[11]

## Political career[edit]

Nirmala Sitharaman joined BJP in 2008. She was a national spokesperson of the party till 2014. In 2014, she was inducted into Narendra Modi's cabinet as a junior minister and was elected in June of that year as a Rajya Sabha Member from Andhra Pradesh.[12][13][14]

In May 2016, she was one of the 12 candidates nominated by the BJP to contest the Rajya Sabha elections due on 11 June. She successfully contested her seat from Karnataka.[15]

She has served as the Defence Minister of India and headed the Balakot Air Strike carried out by the Indian Air Force in 2019. She is currently serving as the Minister of Finance and Corporate affairs of India and has presented five annual budgets of India (as of 2023[update]).

## Union Cabinet Minister[edit]

### Union Defence Minister[edit]

Sitharaman as the Union Minister of Defence in New Delhi, 7 September 2017 Sitharaman pictured during her tenure as Union Minister of Defence, January 2018

On 3 September 2017, she was appointed as Minister of Defence, being only the second woman after Indira Gandhi to hold the post, but the first full-time female defence minister.[16][17]

Under her tenure, the army conducted the Balakot airstrike in retaliation to the 2019 Pulwama attack. The Indian army claimed that the operation had killed at least 170 JEM terrorists.[18][19]

### Union Finance Minister[edit]

Sitharaman as Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs in New Delhi, 31 May 2019

On 31 May 2019, Nirmala Sitharaman was appointed as the finance and corporate affairs minister.[20] She is India's first full-time female finance minister.[21] She presented her maiden budget in the Indian parliament on 5 July 2019.[22] Sitharaman presented the Union Budget 2020–21 on 1 February 2020.[23] During the COVID-19 pandemic in India she was made in-charge of the COVID-19 Economic Response Task Force.[24][25]

Under her tenure as the finance minister in 2022, India became the Fifth largest Economy in the world, and the GDP of the country was said to have seen massive growth positively with historical context.[26][27]

## Non-political career[edit]

Nirmala Sitharaman worked as a salesperson at Habitat, a home decor store in London's Regent Street.[28] She has served as an assistant to Economist in the Agricultural Engineers Association in the UK. During her stay in the UK, she has also served as a Senior Manager (R&D)[29] for PWC and briefly at the BBC World Service.[13]

She has also served as a member of National Commission for Women.[30] In 2017, she was one of the founding directors of Pranava in Hyderabad.[31][32][33]

## Awards and honors[edit]

The Jawaharlal Nehru University conferred her the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2019.[34] Forbes Magazine has ranked her 34th among the 100 most powerful women in the world in 2019.[35] In 2023, ranked at number 32, Sitharaman has made it to the list for the fifth time in a row. In 2022, the 63-year-old minister was ranked at number 36 in the list, while she was in the 37th spot in 2021 and 41st in 2020.

## Personal life[edit]

Sitharaman met her husband, economist and commentator Parakala Prabhakar, who is from Narsapuram, Andhra Pradesh, while studying at the Jawaharlal Nehru University.[36] While Nirmala leaned towards the BJP, her husband was from a Congress family.[37] They married in 1986, and have a daughter. Prabhakar served as a communications advisor to the former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.[38][29][39]

## See also[edit]

* List of female defence ministers
* List of female finance ministers

## References[edit]

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39. ^ "12 Unknown Facts About Nirmala Sitharaman: The Sales Girl Bit Will Surprise You". The Hans India.

## External links[edit]

* Elections.in – Nirmala Sitharaman Biography

Political offices

Preceded by

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As Minister of State (Independent Charge) | Succeeded by

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Preceded by

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* Rajiv Gandhi
* Vishwanath Pratap Singh
* K. C. Pant
* Chandra Shekhar
* Sharad Pawar
* Pramod Mahajan
* Mulayam Singh Yadav
* George Fernandes
* Jaswant Singh
* Pranab Mukherjee
* A. K. Antony
* Arun Jaitley
* Manohar Parrikar
* Nirmala Sitharaman
* Rajnath Singh (incumbent)

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Finance ministers of the G20

* Harrison
* Caputo
* Chalmers
* Haddad
* Freeland
* Lan
* Gentiloni
* Le Maire
* Lindner
* Sitharaman
* Sri Mulyani
* Giorgetti

* Suzuki
* Ramírez
* Siluanov
* Jadaan
* Godongwana
* Choi
* Şimşek
* Hunt
* Yellen

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Ministry of Commerce and Industry (India)

Department

Commerce|

| Divisions|

* Administrative & General Division
* Finance Division
* Economic Division
* Trade Policy Division
* Foreign Trade
* Territorial Division
* Plantation Division
* Supply Division
* State Trading & Infrastructure Division

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Attached &
Subordinate Offices|

* Directorate General of Foreign Trade
* Directorate General of Supplies & Disposals (DGS&D)
* Directorate General of Anti-Dumping & Allied Duties (DGAD)
* Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence & Statistics, Kolkata
* Special Economic Zones
* Pay & Account Office (Supply, Commerce & Textiles)

Autonomous Bodies|

* Commodity Boards
* Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority
* Export Inspection Council
* Indian Institute of Foreign Trade
* Indian Institute of Packaging
* Marine Products Export Development Authority
* National Centre for Sustainable Aquaculture (NaCSA)
* Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Aquaculture (RGCA)
* Network for Fish Quality Management & Sustainable Fishing (NETFISH)

PSUs|

* State Trading Corporation (STC)
* PEC Limited
* MMTC Ltd
* Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India
* India Trade Promotion Organisation
* Pay & Account Office (Supply, Commerce & Textiles)

Advisory Bodies|

* Board of Trade (BOT)
* Inter State Trade Council
* Council for Trade Development & Promotion

Export
Promotion Councils|

* Engineering Exports Promotion Council
* Project Export Promotion Council of India (PEPC)
* Basic Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals & Cosmetics Export Promotion Council (Chemexcil)
* Chemicals & Allied Products Export Promotion Council (CAPEXIL)
* Council for Leather Exports
* Sports Goods Export Promotion Council
* Gem and Jewellery Export Promotion Council
* Shellac Export Promotion Council
* Cashew Export Promotion Council of India
* Pharmaceutical Export Promotion Council
* The Plastics Export Promotion Council
* Indian Oil Seeds & Produce Export Promotion Council (IOPEPC)
* Services Export Promotion Council

Other Organisations|

* Federation of Indian Export Organisations
* Indian Diamond Institute
* Footwear Design & Development Institute (FDDI)
* National Centre for Trade Information
* India Brand Equity Foundation
* Price Stabilization Fund Trust

DPIIT|

| Statutory Bodies|

* Intellectual Property Appellate Board
* Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organisation
* Copyright Office
* Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Registry

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Autonomous
Institutions|

* National Council for Cement & Building Materials (NCCBM)
* Indian Rubber Manufacturers Research Association (IRMRA)
* National Institute of Design
* National Productivity Council (NPC)
* Quality Council of India
* Central Manufacturing Technology Institute (CMTI)
* Central Pulp & Paper Research Institute (CPPRI)

Attached &
Subordinate offices|

* Grievance Offices
* Controller General of Patents, Designs & Trade Marks
* Office of Chief Controller of Accounts (Disclosure of Central Government Accounting Data)
* Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Intellectual Property Management (NIIPM)
* Principal Account Office
* Office of Technical Adviser (Boilers)
* Tariff Commission
* Office of the Salt Commissioner
* Office of the Economic Adviser
* National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council
* Office of Chief Controller of Accounts

Secretaries|

* Guruprasad Mohapatra(incumbent)

Ministers|

| Industry|

* Syama Prasad Mukherjee
* Harekrushna Mahtab
* Nityanand Kanungo
* Ram Subhag Singh
* H. C. Dasappa
* Tribhuvan Narain Singh
* Damodaram Sanjivayya
* F. A. Ahmed(Industrial Development)
* Dinesh Singh (Industrial Development & Internal Trade)
* Moinul Hoque Choudhury(Industrial Development)
* C Subramaniam(Industrial Development)
* T. A. Pai(Industry)
* Brij Lal Verma
* George Fernandes
* Kasu Brahmananda Reddy
* T. A. Pai
* N. D. Tiwari
* Kotla Vijay Bhaskar Reddy
* Veerendra Patil
* N. D. Tiwari
* J. Vengala Rao
* K. Karunakaran
* Suresh Prabhu
* Murasoli Maran
* Sikandar Bakht

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Commerce|

* I. I. Chundrigar
* Cooverji Hormusji Bhabha (Commerce)
* Kshitish Chandra Neogy (Commerce)
* Jawaharlal Nehru(Commerce & Industry)
* Sri Prakasa (Commerce)
* Harekrushna Mahtab (Commerce & Industry)
* T T Krishnamachari (Commerce & Industry)
* Swaran Singh
* Morarji Desai (Commerce & Industry)
* Lal Bahadur Shastri(Commerce & Industry)
* KC Reddy (Commerce & Industry)
* Manubhai Shah (As MoS till 24 January 1966)(Commerce)'
* Dinesh Singh(Commerce)
* Bali Ram Bhagat(Foreign Trade & Supply)
* Dinesh Singh(Commerce)
* Lalit Narayan Mishra(MoS)
* D. P. Chattopadhyay(Commerce)(as MoS till 23 December 1976)'
* Morarji Desai(Commerce)
* Mohan Dharia(Commerce)
* Charan Singh(Commerce)
* Hitendra Desai(Commerce)
* Indira Gandhi
* Pranab Mukherjee(Commerce)
* Pranab Mukherjee(Commerce)
* Rajiv Gandhi
* Arjun Singh
* P Shiv Shankar (Commerce)
* N. D. Tiwari (Commerce)
* Dinesh Singh(Commerce & Industry)
* Chandra Shekhar (Commerce)
* Subramanian Swamy (Commerce)
* P Chidambaram(MoS, IC) (Commerce)
* P. V. Narasimha Rao
* P Chidambaram (MoS, IC) (Commerce)
* P. V. Narasimha Rao
* Atal Bihari Vajpayee
* Atal Bihari Vajpayee
* Devendra Prasad Yadav(Commerce)
* Bolla Bulli Ramaiah(Commerce)
* Ramakrishna Hegde(Commerce)
* Murasoli Maran(Commerce & Industry)
* Anand Sharma(Commerce & Industry)
* Nirmala Sitharaman(Commerce & Industry)'(MoS, IC)'
* Suresh Prabhu(Commerce & Industry)
* Piyush Goyal(Commerce and Industry)(incumbent)

MOS|

* Hardeep Singh Puri(incumbent)

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Bharatiya Janata Party

Party presidents|

* Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1980–86)
* L. K. Advani (1986–91, 1993–98, 2004–06)
* Murli Manohar Joshi (1991–93)
* Kushabhau Thakre (1998–2000)
* Bangaru Laxman (2000–01)
* Jana Krishnamurthi (2001–02)
* Venkaiah Naidu (2002–04)
* Rajnath Singh (2006–09)
* Nitin Gadkari (2009–13)
* Rajnath Singh (2013–14)
* Amit Shah (2014–2020)
* J. P. Nadda (2020–present)

Current vice presidents|

* Raman Singh
* Vasundhara Raje
* Radha Mohan Singh
* Baijayant Panda
* Raghubar Das
* Rekha Verma
* Annpurna Devi
* Bharti Shiyal
* D. K. Aruna
* M. Chuba Ao
* A. P. Abdullakutty

Prime ministers|

* Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1996; 1998–2004)
* Narendra Modi (2014–present)

Deputy prime ministers|

* L. K. Advani (2002–2004)

Other prominent leaders|

* Subramanian Swamy
* Arun Jaitley
* Bhavurao Deshpande
* Nirmala Sitharaman
* Piyush Goyal
* Kalyan Singh
* Anandiben Patel
* Smriti Irani
* Ravi Shankar Prasad
* Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
* Sushil Kumar Modi
* Ram Naik
* Suvendu Adhikari
* Sarbananda Sonowal
* Chandrakant Bacchu Patil
* Dilip Ghosh
* Jamyang Tsering Namgyal
* Madan Lal Khurana
* Sahib Singh Verma
* Sushma Swaraj
* Manohar Parrikar
* Keshubhai Patel
* Shanta Kumar
* Prem Kumar Dhumal
* Babulal Marandi
* Arjun Munda
* D. V. Sadananda Gowda
* Jagadish Shettar
* Sunder Lal Patwa
* Uma Bharti
* Babulal Gaur
* Devendra Fadnavis
* Bhairon Singh Shekhawat
* Ram Prakash Gupta
* Jagdambika Pal
* Nityanand Swami
* Bhagat Singh Koshyari
* B. C. Khanduri
* Ramesh Pokhriyal
* Trivendra Singh Rawat
* Gulab Chand Kataria
* Hriday Narayan Dikshit
* Biswabhusan Harichandan
* Bandaru Dattatreya
* Draupadi Murmu
* Vajubhai Vala
* Kalraj Mishra
* Banwarilal Purohit
* Tamilisai Soundararajan
* Manoj Sinha
* Suresh Prabhu
* B. S. Yediyurappa
* Yogi Adityanath
* Himanta Biswa Sarma

Current chief ministers|

* Pema Khandu
* Himanta Biswa Sarma
* Vishnu Deo Sai
* Pramod Sawant
* Bhupendrabhai Patel

* Manohar Lal Khattar
* Mohan Yadav
* Bhajan Lal Sharma
* N. Biren Singh
* Yogi Adityanath
* Manik Saha
* Pushkar Singh Dhami

Current
deputy chief ministers|

* Chowna Mein
* Devendra Fadnavis
* Yanthungo Patton
* Brajesh Pathak
* Keshav Prasad Maurya
* Samrat Chaudhary
* Vijay Kumar Sinha
* Arun Sao
* Vijay Sharma
* Rajendra Shukla
* Jagdish Devda
* Diya Kumari
* Prem Chand Bairwa

Current
national spokespersons|

* Anil Baluni
* Sanjay Mayukh
* Sambit Patra
* Sudhanshu Trivedi
* Syed Shahnawaz Hussain
* Rajiv Pratap Rudy
* Nalin Kohli
* Rajeev Chandrasekhar
* Gaurav Bhatia
* Syed Zafar Islam
* Tom Vadakkan
* Sanju Verma
* Gopal Krishna Agarwal
* Iqbal Singh Lalpura
* R. P. Singh
* Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
* Aparajita Sarangi
* Heena Gavit
* Guruprakash
* Mmhonlumo Kikon
* Raju Bista
* K. K. Sharma

Current
general secretaries|

* Arun Singh
* Bhupender Yadav
* B. L. Santhosh (Organisation)
* Dushyant Kumar Gautam
* Dilip Saikia
* Kailash Vijayvargiya
* Shiv Prakash (Organisation)
* Tarun Chugh

Current
national secretaries|

* Vinod Tawde
* Vinod Sonkar
* Bishweswar Tudu
* Satya Kumar
* Sunil Deodhar
* Arvind Menon
* Harish Dwivedi
* Pankaja Munde
* Om Prakash Dhurve
* Anupam Hazra
* Narendra Singh
* Vijaya Rahatkar
* Alka Gurjar

Political wings|

* National Executive Committee
* Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha
* BJP Mahila Morcha
* BJP IT Cell
* State Units
* State Presidents

Related organisations|

* Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad
* Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
* Bharatiya Jana Sangh
* Janata Party
* Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh
* Bharatiya Kisan Sangh
* Swadeshi Jagaran Manch
* Vishva Hindu Parishad

Others|

* Hindutva
* Hindu nationalism
* Integral humanism
* Electoral history
* Party leaders in the Parliament
* Rajya Sabha members

Portals:

* Biography
* Hyderabad

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