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REGD. No. D. L.-33004/99
The Gazette of India
CG-DL-E-25082025-265664
EXTRAORDINARY
PART I-Section 1
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 226]
NEW DELHI, SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 2025/BHADRA 1, 1947
MINISTRY OF CULTURE
(C&M)
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 23rd August, 2025
F. No. CM-21/22/2025 – C&M—To commemorate the 100th Birth Anniversary of Late Shri Atal Bihari
Vajpayee, the Competent Authority has approved the constitution of a High Level Committee. The composition of the
High Level Committee is as under:-
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Chairman
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Shri Narendra Modi Hon'ble Prime Minister of India
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Members
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SI. Name & Designation Designation
No.
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1. Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil Former President of India
2. Shri Ram Nath Kovind Former President of India
3. Shri H D Devegowda Former Prime Minister of India
4. Shri Om Birla Speaker, Lok Sabha
5. Shri Raj Nath Singh Minister of Defence
6. Shri Amit Shah Minister of Home Affairs and Cooperation
7. Shri Jagat Prakash Nadda Minister of Health and Family Welfare & Chemicals and
Fertilizers
8. Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare & Rural
Development
9. Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs
10. Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar Minister of External Affairs
11. Shri Manohar Lal Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs & Power
12. Shri Piyush Goyal Minister of Commerce and Industry
13. Shri Dharmendra Pradhan Minister of Education
14. Shri Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Minister of Panchayati Raj & Fisheries, Animal Husbandry
Singh and Dairying
15. Dr. Virendra Kumar Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment
16. Shri Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu Minister of Civil Aviation
17. Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw Minister of Railways, Information and Broadcasting &
Electronics and Information Technology
18. Shri Bhupender Yadav Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
19. Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat Minister of Culture and Tourism
20. Smt. Annpurna Devi Minister of Women and Child Development
21. Shri Hardeep Singh Puri Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas
22. Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya Minister of Labour and Employment & Youth Affairs and
Sports
23. Shri Chirag Paswan Minister of Food Processing Industries
24. Dr. Jitendra Singh Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of
Science and Technology & Earth Sciences.
Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office; Personnel,
Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Atomic
Energy, Department of Space
25. Shri Jadhav Prataprao Ganpatrao Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of
Ayush; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and
Family Welfare
26. Shri Ramdas Athawale Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and
Empowerment
27. Smt. Savitri Thakur Minister of State in the Ministry of Women and Child
Development
28. Shri Harivansh Narayan Singh Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha
29. Lt. General Kaiwalya Trivikram Parnaik, Governor of Arunachal Pradesh
PVSM, UYSM, YSM (Retired)
30. Shri Arif Mohammed Khan Governor of Bihar
31. Shri Ramen Deka Governor of Chhattisgarh
32. Shri Vinai Kumar Saxena Lt. Governor of Delhi (NCT)
33. Shri Pusapati Ashok Gajapathi Raju Governor Of Goa
34. Prof. Ashim Kumar Ghosh Governor of Haryana
35. Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar Governor of Jharkhand
36. Shri Thawarchand Gehlot Governor of Karnataka
37. Shri Praful Patel Administrator of UT of Lakshadweep
38. Shri Mangubhai Chhaganbhai Patel Governor of Madhya Pradesh
39. Shri Ajay Kumar Bhalla Governor of Manipur
40. Shri C.H. Vijayashankar Governor of Meghalaya
41. Shri Ajay Kumar Bhalla Governor of Nagaland (Addl. Charge)
42. Dr. Hari Babu Kambhampati Governor of Odisha
43. Shri Gulab Chand Kataria Governor Of Punjab
44. Shri Om Prakash Mathur Governor of Sikkim
45. Shri Indrasena Reddy Nallu Governor of Tripura
46. Smt. Anandiben Patel Governor of Uttar Pradesh
47. Dr. C.V. Ananda Bose Governor of West Bengal
48. Shri Pema Khandu Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh
49. Shri Nitish Kumar Chief Minister of Bihar
50. Shri Vishnu Deo Sai Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh
51. Smt. Rekha Gupta Chief Minister of Delhi (NCT)
52. Dr. Pramod Sawant Chief Minister of Goa
53. Shri Nayab Singh Saini Chief Minister of Haryana
54. Shri Hemant Soren Chief Minister of Jharkhand
55. Shri Siddaramaiah Chief Minister of Karnataka
56. Shri Mohan Yadav Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh
57. Shri Neiphiu Rio Chief Minister of Nagaland
58. Shri Conrad Kongkal Sangma Chief Minister of Meghalaya
59. Shri Mohan Charan Majhi Chief Minister of Odisha
60. Shri Bhagwant Mann Chief Minister of Punjab
61. Shri Prem Singh Tamang (Golay) Chief Minister of Sikkim
62. Dr. Manik Saha Chief Minister of Tripura
63. Shri Yogi Adityanath Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
64. Km. Mamata Banerjee Chief Minister of West Bengal
65. Shri Ranjan Gogoi Member of Parliament
66. Smt. Sudha Murty Member of Parliament
67. Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu Former Vice President of India
68. Shri L. K. Advani Former Deputy Prime Minister of India
69. Shri Murli Manohar Joshi Former Member of Parliament
70. Smt. Sumitra Mahajan Former Speaker of the Lok Sabha
71. Dr. Satyanarayan Jatiya Former Member of Parliament
72. Dr. T. V. Somanathan Cabinet Secretary
73. Dr. P.K. Mishra Principal Secretary to PM
74. Shri Govind Mohan Home Secretary
75. Shri Sanjay Jaju Secretary - Information and Broadcasting
76. Shri Vivek Aggarwal Secretary - Ministry of Culture
77. Smt. Namita Bhattacharya Atal Bihari Vajpayee's Family Member
78. Shri Ranjan Bhattacharya Atal Bihari Vajpayee's Family Member
79. Mata Amritanandmayi Spiritual Leader
80. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Spiritual Leader
81. Srimat Swami Madhavananda President - Bharat Sevashram Sangha
82. Shri Chamu Krishna Shastry Educationist
83. Shri Sujan R. Chinoy Director General - Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses
84. Shri Ashok Tandon Journalist
85. Shri Lalit Mansingh Former Foreign Secretary of India
86. Shri Vinay Sahasrabuddhe Political Leader
87. Shri Suresh Prabhu Political Leader
88. Shri Ram Madhav Political Leader
89. Shri Prabhat Kumar Administrator
90. Shri S. Gurumurthy Economist
91. Shri Ramaswami Balasubramaniam Author
92. Dr. Shamika Ravi Member of the Economic Advisory Council
93. Shri Bharat Bhaskar Author
94. Shri J S Rajput Author
95. Dr. Bhimaraya Metri Author
96. Shri Badri Narayan Author
97. Shri Rizwan Kadri Author
98. Shri Tariq Mansur Author
99. Shri Raghavendra Tanwar Author
100. Shri D P Singh Author
101. Dr. Meenakshi Jain Author
102. Shri Anand Neelakantan Author
103. Shri Yogesh Singh Vice Chancellor, Delhi University
104. Shri Uday Mahurkar Journalist
105. Dr. Trilochan Mohapatra Scientist
106. Shri S Somanath Scientist
107. Shri. Anant Nag Actor
108. Shri Ravindra Kaushik Eminent Scholar
109. Shri Balbir Punj Political Leader
110. General Ved Prakash Malik PVSM, Retired Army Chief
AVSM
111. Shri Kalraj Mishra Political Leader
112. Shri Shanta Kumar Political Leader
113. Shri Ram Bahadur Rai Journalist
114. Shri Prasoon Joshi Chairperson, CBFC
115. Padmaja Fenani Jogalekar Artist
116. Smt. Pratibha Advani Media Activist
117. Prof. Mohanlal Chhipa Educationist
118. Shri K. K. Muhammed Archaeologist
119. Shri Vijai Trivedi Journalist
120. Shri Kapil Dev Sportsperson
121. Shri Rajat Sharma Journalist
122. Shri E. Sreedharan Civil Engineer
123. Shri Natarajan Chandrasekaran Industrialist
124. Shri Shiv Nadar Industrialist
125. Shri Mohandas Pai Industrialist
126. Shri Azim Premji Industrialist
127. Dr. Randeep Guleria Doctor
128. Smt. Mary Kom Sportsperson
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The mandate of the National Level Committee will be as under:
i. Approve policies/plans, programmes and supervise and guide the commemoration of the 100th Birth
Anniversary of Late Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee including preparatory activities.
ii. Decide on the broad dates for the detailed programme of celebration. The recommendations of the
Committee will be considered by the Government for implementation, subject to extant Rules, instructions
and practices.
SAMAR NANDA, Jt. Secy.
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