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REGD. No. D. L.-33004/99
The Gazette of India
CG-DL-E-25082025-265665
EXTRAORDINARY
PART I-Section 1
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
NEW DELHI, SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 2025/BHADRA 1, 1947
MINISTRY OF CULTURE
(C&M)
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 23rd August, 2025
F.No. CM-21/24/2025-C&M.— - To commemorate the 150th Birth Anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel,
the Competent Authority has approved the constitution of a High Level Committee. The composition of the High Level
Committee is as under: -
Chairman
Shri Narendra Modi
Hon'ble Prime Minister of India
Members
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| Sl. No. | Name & Designation | Designation |
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| 1. | Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil | Former President of India |
| 2. | Shri Ram Nath Kovind | Former President of India |
| 3. | Shri Om Birla | Hon'ble Speaker of Lok Sabha |
| 4. | Shri H. D. Deve Gowda | Former Prime Minister of India |
| 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 & Farmers Welfare, and 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 Power & Housing and Urban Affairs |
| 12. | Shri H. D. Kumaraswamy | Minister of Heavy Industries and 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, Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and Dairying |
| 16. | Dr. Virendra Kumar | Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment |
| 17. | Shri Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu | Minister of Civil Aviation |
| 18. | Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw | Minister of Railways, Information and Broadcasting, and Electronics and |
| | | Information Technology |
| 19. | Shri Bhupender Yadav | Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change |
| 20. | Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat | Minister of Culture and Tourism |
| 21. | Smt. Annpurna Devi | Minister of Women and Child Development |
| 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 & |
| | | Technology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Minister of State in the Prime |
| | | Minister's Office, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions |
| | | & Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space. |
| 25. | Shri Jayant Chaudhary | Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Skill |
| | | Development and Entrepreneurship & Ministry of Education |
| 26. | Smt. Anupriya Patel | Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare & Ministry |
| | | of Chemicals and Fertilizers |
| 27. | Shri Bhupathi Raju Srinivasa Varma | Minister of State for Ministry of Heavy Industries and Ministry of Steel |
| 28. | Shri Harivansh Narayan Singh | Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha |
| 29. | Shri Justice (Retd.) S. Abdul Nazeer | Governor of Andhra Pradesh |
| 30. | Shri Lakshman Prasad Acharya | Governor of Assam |
| 31. | Shri Pusapati Ashok Gajapathi Raju | Governor of Goa |
| 32. | Shri Acharya Dev Vrat | Governor of Gujarat |
| 33. | Prof. Ashim Kumar Ghosh | Governor of Haryana |
| 34. | Shri Shiv Pratap Shukla | Governor of Himachal Pradesh |
| 35. | Shri Manoj Sinha | Lt. Governor Jammu & Kashmir |
| 36. | Shri Thawar Chand Gehlot | Governor of Karnataka |
| 37. | Shri Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar | Governor of Kerala |
| 38. | Shri C.P. Radhakrishnan | Governor of Maharashtra |
| 39. | General (Dr.) Vijay Kumar Singh PVSM, AVSM, YSM | Governor of Mizoram |
| | (Retd) | |
| 40. | Shri Ajay Kumar Bhalla | Governor of Nagaland (Additional Charge) |
| 41. | Shri Gulab Chand Kataria | Governor of Punjab |
| 42. | Shri K. Kailashnathan | Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry |
| 43. | Shri Haribhau Kisanrao Bagde | Governor of Rajasthan |
| 44. | Shri Om Prakash Mathur | Governor of Sikkim |
| 45. | Shri Ravindra Narayana Ravi | Governor of Tamil Nadu |
| 46. | Shri Jishnu Dev Varma | Governor of Telangana |
| 47. | Smt. Anandiben Patel | Governor of Uttar Pradesh |
| 48. | Lt. Gen. Gurmit Singh | Governor of Uttrakhand |
| 49. | Sri Nara Chandra Babu Nayudu | Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh |
| 50. | Shri Himanta Biswa Sarma | Chief Minister of Assam |
| 51. | Smt. Rekha Gupta | Chief Minister of Delhi |
| 52. | Shri Pramod Sawant | Chief Minister of Goa |
| 53. | Shri Bhupendra Patel | Chief Minister of Gujarat |
| 54. | Shri Nayab Singh Saini | Chief Minister of Haryana |
| 55. | Shri Omar Abdullah | Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir |
| 56. | Shri Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu | Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh |
| 57. | Sri Siddaramaiah | Chief Minister of Karnataka |
| 58. | Shri Pinarayi Vijayan | Chief Minister of Kerala |
| 59. | Shri Devendra Fadnavis | Chief Minister of Maharashtra |
| 60. | Shri PU Lalduhoma | Chief Minister of Mizoram |
| 61. | Shri Neiphiu Rio | Chief Minister of Nagaland |
| 62. | Shri N. Rangasamy | Chief Minister of Puducherry |
| 63. | Shri Bhagwant Singh Mann | Chief Minister of Punjab |
| 64. | Shri Bhajan Lal Sharma | Chief Minister of Rajasthan |
| 65. | Shri Prem Singh Tamang (Golay) | Chief Minister of Sikkim |
| 66. | Shri M. K. Stalin | Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu |
| 67. | Shri A. Revanth Reddy | Chief Minister of Telangana |
| 68. | Shri Yogi Adityanath | Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh |
| 69. | Shri Pushkar Singh Dhami | Chief Minister of Uttarakhand |
| 70. | Smt. P.T. Usha | Member of Parliament Rajya Sabha, Olympian |
| 71. | Shri M Venkaiah Naidu | Former Vice President of India |
| 72. | Shri L K Advani | Former Deputy Prime Minister of India |
| 73. | Dr. T. V. Somanathan | Cabinet Secretary |
| 74. | Dr. P.K. Mishra | Principal Secretary to PM |
| 75. | Shri Govind Mohan | Home Secretary |
| 76. | Shri Sanjay Jaju | Secretary - Information and Broadcasting |
| 77. | Shri Vivek Aggarwal | Secretary, Ministry of Culture |
| 78. | Shri Sanjeev Sanyal | Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM), member and |
| | | economist |
| 79. | Shri Jagdish Singh Khehar | Former Chief Justice of India |
| 80. | Prof. Raghuvendra Tanwar | Chairman, ICHR |
| 81. | Ms. S. Radha Chauhan | Chairperson of the Capacity Building Commission (CBC) |
| 82. | Shri Rajiv Mehrishi | Former Home Secretary of India |
| 83. | Shri Suresh N Patel | Former Central Vigilance Commissioner of India |
| 84. | Dr. K. Sivan | Former Secretary, Department of Space and Chairman of Space Commission & |
| | | ISRO |
| 85. | Dr. K.N. Vyas | Former Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission & Former Secretary, |
| | | Department of Atomic Energy |
| 86. | Lt. General (Rtd.) Syed Atta Hasnain | Former General Officer Commanding 15 Corps (Srinagar), 21 Corps & Military|
| | | Secretary and currently Chancellor of Central University of Kashmir |
| 87. | Shri A. Surya Prakash | Member, Prime Ministers Museum & Library Society; Journalist & Author |
| 88. | Smt. Nandini Patel | Family Member |
| 89. | Shri Dirubhai Patel | Family Member |
| 90. | Shri Ashok J. Patel | Trustee, Sardar Patel Trust |
| 91. | Dr. Swati Piramal | Scientist and Businesswoman |
| 92. | Pankaj R Patel | Trustee, Sardar Patel Trust |
| 93. | Jayen Saradchandra Mehta | Trustee, Sardar Patel Trust |
| 94. | Shri Ram Bahadur Rai | Veteran Journalist |
| 95. | Shri Ashok Malik | Journalist, Partner and Chair(India)- The Asia Group |
| 96. | Shri Swapan Dasgupta | Journalist and former Member of Parliament |
| 97. | Shri Alok Mehta | Journalist |
| 98. | Shri Ram Avtaar Sastry | Chairman of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Foundation |
| 99. | Shri Niranjan P. Patel | Vice Chancellor Sardar Patel University, Gujarat |
| 100. | Shri Shamalbhai B Patel | Social Worker and Chairman, Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation |
| | | Ltd. (GCMMF) |
| 101. | Shri Dilip Rath | Entrepreneur, Former Chairman, National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) |
| 102. | Shri Rajiv Kumar | Economist, Former Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog |
| 103. | Prof. Dr. Tejas M. Patel | Renowned Doctor |
| 104. | Prof. Nalin Mehta | Author |
| 105. | Ms. Niranjanaben Mukulbhai Kalarthi | Author |
| 106. | Prof. (Dr.) Bimal N. Patel | Vice Chancellor, Rashtriya Raksha University |
| 107. | Shri Subhash Kashyap | Political Scientist |
| 108. | Prof. Dr. Shirin Mehta | Educationist |
| 109. | Shri Paresh Rawal | Actor and Chairman, NSD |
| 110. | Prof. Rizwan Kadri | Scholar |
| 111. | Prof. Pushpesh Pant | Historian |
| 112. | Shri Ram V. Sutar | Indian sculptor |
| 113. | Prof. S.V. Jani | Educationist |
| 114. | Prof. Harshadbhai Patel | Educationist, Vice-Chancellor of Gujarat Vidyapith |
| 115. | Prof. Shantisree Dhulipudi Pandit | Vice Chancellor, JNU |
| 116. | Shri Dinkar Joshi | Author |
| 117. | Prof. Dr. G. Gopa Kumar | Educationist |
| 118. | Mata Amritanandamayi | Spiritual Leader |
| 119. | Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev | Spiritual Leader |
| 120. | Srimat Swami Gautamananda ji Maharaj | President of Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission |
| 121. | Shri Sheshrao Chavan | Author |
| 122. | Shri Balraj Krishna | Author |
| 123. | Shri Uday Mahurkar | Journalist |
| 124. | Prof. Ravindra Sharma | Educationist |
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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 150th Birth Anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel 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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