Amendment of the Notification of the Government of India Ministry of Culture No 108 dated 11th April 2026 regarding 200th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Jyotirao Phule Commemoration

REGD. No. D. L.-33004/99 The Gazette of India CG-DL-E-15072026-274487 EXTRAORDINARY PART I-Section 1 PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY No. 202] NEW DELHI, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 2026/ASHADHA 18, 1948 (1) THE GAZETTE OF INDIA : EXTRAORDINARY [PART I-SEC.1] MINISTRY OF CULTURE (C&M) [AMENDMENT OF NOTIFICATION (ADDENDUM)] New Delhi, 9th July, 2026 F.No. 21/11/2025 - C&M. No. 108(Addendum)—In partial modification of the Notification of the Government of India, Ministry of Culture, No. 108, File No. 21/11/2025-C&M, dated the 11th April, 2026, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part I, Section 1, relating to the constitution of the High- Level Committee, the Central Government hereby makes the following amendments, namely:- (i) for the words "Shriman Jyotirao Govindrao Phule", the words "Mahatma Jyotirao Phule" shall be substituted; and (ii) in the composition of the High-Level Committee, the following entries shall hereby be inserted in the table at Serial No. 77 and Serial No. 126 respectively, namely:- Serial No. | Name | Designation 77. | Shri Bharat Singh Kushwah | Member of Parliament 126. | Dr. Pratik Umrey | Social Activist 2. Consequent upon the above amendments, the composition of the High-Level Committee shall be as follows:- THE GAZETTE OF INDIA : EXTRAORDINARY [PART I-SEC.1] Chairman Hon'ble Prime Minister of India Members Sl. No. | Name | Designation 1. | Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil | Former President of India 2. | Shri Ram Nath Kovind | Former President of India 3. | Shri Om Birla | Speaker, Lok Sabha 4. | Shri H D Devegowda | Former Prime Minister of India 5. | Shri Raj Nath Singh | Minister of Defence 6. | Shri Amit Shah | Minister of Home Affairs; and Minister of Cooperation 7. | Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari | Minister of Road Transport and Highways 8. | Shri Jagat Prakash Nadda | Minister of Health and Family Welfare; and Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers. 9. | Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan | Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare; and Minister of Rural Development 10. | Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman | Minister of Finance; and Minister of Corporate Affairs 11. | Shri Manohar Lal | Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs; and Minister of Power. 12. | Shri H. D. Kumaraswamy | Minister of Heavy Industries; and Minister of Steel. 13. | Shri Piyush Goyal | Minister of Commerce and Industry 14. | Shri Dharmendra Pradhan | Minister of Education 15. | Shri Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh | Minister of Panchayati Raj; and Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying 16. | Shri Sarbananda Sonowal | Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways 17. | Dr. Virendra Kumar | Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment 18. | Shri Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu | Minister of Civil Aviation THE GAZETTE OF INDIA : EXTRAORDINARY [PART I-SEC.1] 19. | Shri Pralhad Joshi | Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution; and Minister of New and Renewable Energy 20. | Shri Jual Oram | Minister of Tribal Affairs 21. | Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw | Minister of Railways; Minister of Information and Broadcasting; and Minister of Electronics and Information Technology 22. | Shri Jyotiraditya M. Scindia | Minister of Communications; and Minister of Development of North Eastern Region 23. | Shri Bhupender Yadav | Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change 24. | Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat | Minister of Culture; and Minister of Tourism 25. | Smt. Annpurna Devi | Minister of Women and Child Development 26. | Shri Kiren Rijiju | Minister of Parliamentary Affairs; and Minister of Minority Affairs 27. | Shri Hardeep Singh Puri | Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas 28. | Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya | Minister of Labour and Employment; and Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports 29. | Shri G. Kishan Reddy | Minister of Coal; and Minister of Mines 30. | Shri Chirag Paswan | Minister of Food Processing Industries 31. | Shri Jitan Ram Manjhi | Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises 32. | Shri Rao Inderjit Singh | Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation; Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Planning; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Culture THE GAZETTE OF INDIA : EXTRAORDINARY 33. | Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal | Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Law and Justice; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs 34. | Shri Prataprao Jadhav | Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Ayush; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare 35. | Shri Ramdas Athawale | Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment 36. | Smt. Anupriya Patel | Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers 37. | Shri Jayant Chaudhary | Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Education 38. | Shri Ravneet Singh | Minister of State in the Ministry of Food Processing Industries; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways 39. | Shri Jishnu Dev Varma | Governor of Maharashtra 40. | Shri Taranjit Singh Sandhu | Lt. Governor of Delhi NCT 41. | Sri Nara Chandra Babu Naidu | Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh 42. | Shri Pema Khandu | Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh 43. | Shri Samrat Chaudhary | Chief Minister of Bihar 44. | Shri Vishnu Deo Sai | Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh 45. | Smt. Rekha Gupta | Chief Minister of Delhi NCT 46. | Dr. Pramod Sawant | Chief Minister of Goa 47. | Shri Bhupendra Patel | Chief Minister of Gujarat 48. | Shri Nayab Singh Saini | Chief Minister of Haryana 49. | Shri Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu | Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh 50. | Shri Omar Abdullah | Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir THE GAZETTE OF INDIA : EXTRAORDINARY [PART I-SEC.1] 51. | Shri Hemant Soren | Chief Minister of Jharkhand 52. | Shri D. K. Shivakumar | Chief Minister of Karnataka 53. | Dr. Mohan Yadav | Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh 54. | Shri Devendra Fadnavis | Chief Minister of Maharashtra 55. | Shri Yumnam Khemchand Singh | Chief Minister of Manipur 56. | Shri Conrad K Sangma | Chief Minister of Meghalaya 57. | Shri Lalduhoma | Chief Minister of Mizoram 58. | Shri Neiphiu Rio | Chief Minister of Nagaland 59. | Shri Mohan Charan Majhi | Chief Minister of Odisha 60. | Shri Bhagwant Mann | Chief Minister of Punjab 61. | Shri Bhajan Lal Sharma | Chief Minister of Rajasthan 62. | Shri Prem Singh Tamang (Golay) | Chief Minister of Sikkim 63. | Shri A Revanth Reddy | Chief Minister of Telangana 64. | Dr. Manik Saha | Chief Minister of Tripura 65. | Shri Yogi Adityanath | Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh 66. | Shri Pushkar Singh Dhami | Chief Minister of Uttarakhand 67. | Shri Eknath Shinde | Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra 68. | Shri Keshav Prasad Maurya | Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh 69. | Smt. Sunetra Pawar | Deputy Chief Minister, Maharashtra 70. | Dr. P.K. Mishra | Principal Secretary to PM 71. | Smt. S. Phangnon Konyak | Member of Parliament 72. | Shri Ryaga Krishnaiah | Member of Parliament 73. | Dr. Amol Kolhe | Member of Parliament 74. | Smt. Jyoti Waghmare | Member of Parliament 75. | Smt. P. T. Usha | Member of Parliament THE GAZETTE OF INDIA : EXTRAORDINARY 76. | Shri Upendra Kushwaha | Member of Parliament 77. | Shri Bharat Singh Kushwah | Member of Parliament 78. | Dr. T. V. Somanathan | Cabinet Secretary 79. | Shri Govind Mohan | Union Home Secretary 80. | Shri Sudhansh Pant | Secretary - Department of Social Justice & Empowerment 81. | Shri Vivek Aggarwal | Secretary - Ministry of Culture (Member Secretary) 82. | Shri Atish Chandra | Secretary - Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare 83. | Shri Sanjay Kumar | Secretary - Department of School Education & Literacy 84. | Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti | Chairperson of National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) and Former Member of Parliament 85. | Shri Kishore Makwana | Chairman, National Commission for Scheduled Castes 86. | Dr. Darakhshan Andrabi | Chairperson, J&K Waqf Board 87. | Shri Chhagan Bhujbal | Cabinet Minister, Maharashtra 88. | Shri Ratnesh Kushwaha | MLA, Bihar 89. | Shri Jayant Raj Kushwaha | MLA, Bihar 90. | Smt. Snehlata Kushwaha | MLA, Bihar 91. | Shri Narendra S. Kushwaha | MLA, Madhya Pradesh 92. | Shri Rikesh Sen | MLA, Chhattisgarh 93. | Smt. Purnima Sahu | MLA, Jharkhand 94. | Smt. Asha Maurya | MLA, Uttar Pradesh 95. | Shri Keshav Prasad | MLC, Karnataka 96. | Shri Yogesh Tilekar | MLC, Maharashtra 97. | Kumari Mayawati | Former Chief Minister, Uttar Pradesh 98. | Shri Ashok Gehlot | Former Chief Minister, Rajasthan 99. | Shri Pramod Madhwaraj | Former Minister, Karnataka THE GAZETTE OF INDIA : EXTRAORDINARY [PART I-SEC.1] 100. | Shri Justice Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai | Former Chief Justice of India 101. | Shri Justice K G Balakrishnan | Former Chief Justice of India 102. | Smt. Pradnya Satav | Political Leader 103. | Shri Bhupendra Saini | Political Leader 104. | Sadguru Jaggi Vasudev | Spiritual Leader 105. | Baba Ramdev | Yoga Guru 106. | Swami Govind Dev Giri | Spiritual Leader 107. | Mata Amritanandamayi | Spiritual Leader 108. | Prof. Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit | Vice-Chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru University 109. | Prof. Shashikala Wanjari | Vice-Chancellor, National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration 110. | Dr. Vilas Kashinath Kharche | Vice-Chancellor, Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth 111. | Dr. Swadesh Singh | Professor, Delhi University 112. | Shri Raja Nayak | National Vice President & Head- Tribal Wing, Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry 113. | Shri Hansraj Gangaram Ahir | Former Chairman of the National Commission for Backward Classes 114. | Dr. Budhri Tati | Padma Shree and Social Activist 115. | Smt. Nivedita Bhide | Padma Shree and Social Activist 116. | Prof. Waman Kendre | Padma Shree and Theatre Artist 117. | Shri Bhiku Ramji Idate | Padma Shree and Social Activist 118. | Shri Manda Krishna Madiga | Padma Shree and Social Activist 119. | Smt. Arti Atin Kamble | Entrepreneur and Social Activist 120. | Dr. Aruna Ramchandra Dhere | Marathi writer 121. | Shri Ravi Kirkole | Social Activist 122. | Smt. C Savithri | Social Activist 123. | Shri Harendra Pratap | Social Activist THE GAZETTE OF INDIA : EXTRAORDINARY 124. | Shri Avinash Nilkanth Thakre | Social Activist 125. | Smt. Nayana Sahasrabuddhe | Social Activist 126. | Dr. Pratik Umrey | Social Activist 127. | Prof. Neeraja Madhav | Hindi Author and Scholar 128. | Smt. Swaroop Sampat Rawal | Actress and Educationist The Mandate of the High-Level Committee will be as under: I. To approve policies/plans, programmes and supervise and guide the commemoration of 200th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Jyotirao Phule including preparatory activities. II. To decide the broad dates for the detailed programmes of celebration. III. The recommendations of the Committee will be considered by the Government of India for implementation, subject to extant Rules, instructions and practices. IV. The Committee shall have power to co-opt members. V. The terms of the Committee commence with immediate effect and will be until further orders. SAMAR NANDA, Jt. Secy. Uploaded by Dte. of Printing at Government of India Press, Ring Road, Mayapuri, New Delhi-110064 and Published by the Controller of Publications, Delhi-110054. KUMER | Digitally signed by KUMER CHAND | CHAND MEENA MEENA | Date: 2026.07.15 10:20:04 +05'30'