Union Government ministries of India

The Government of India exercises its executive authority through a number of government ministries or departments of state. A ministry is composed of employed officials, known as civil servants, and is politically accountable through a minister. Most major ministries are headed by a Cabinet Minister, who sits in the Union Council of Ministers, and is typically supported by a team of junior ministers.

The following ministries once functioned, but have since become defunct, generally because of a merger with another ministry or division into new ministries.

2016

The following are independent departments of the Government of India that are not under any union ministry.

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