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  • DATE OF CREATION OF THE DEPARTMENT

    The Department of War Transport was formed in July 1942, by the bifurcation of the then Department of Communications into two Departments Viz.

    • Department of Posts
    • Department of War Transport
  • FUNCTIONS ALLOCATED TO IT AT THE TIME OF ITS CREATION WITH ITS ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY

    The functions allocated to the Department of War Transport including Major Ports, Railways Priorities, utilization of road and water transport, Petrol rationing, and Producer Gas. Broadly speaking, the functions of the War Transport Department were to coordinate the demands for transport in wartime, Coastal Shipping, and the administration and development of major ports. Later, the planning of export was undertaken as a corollary to the Departments' control of transport priorities.

  • SUBSEQUENT CHANGES MADE IN THE ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE FROM TIME TO TIME, WITH DATES
    1. During the year 1957, the Department of War Transport was renamed as Ministry of Transport & Communications.
    2. 25 January 1966 – Renamed Department of Transport, Shipping & Tourism.
    3. 13 March 1967 – Bifurcated into Shipping & Transport and Tourism & Civil Aviation.
    4. 25 September 1985 – Became Department of Surface Transport.
    5. 22 October 1986 – Renamed Ministry of Surface Transport.
    6. 15 October 1999 – Reorganized into Shipping and Road Transport departments.
    7. 17 November 2000 – Bifurcated into two Ministries.
    8. 2 September 2004 – Merged again into Ministry of Shipping, Road Transport and Highways.
    9. 2009 – Ministry of Shipping reformed.
    10. 10 November 2020 – Renamed Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways.
  • ALLOCATION AND RE-ALLOCATION OF FUNCTIONS WITH REASONS FOR SUCH CHANGES
    1. 15 July 1944 – Road planning and Motor Vehicles Act transferred to War Transport.
    2. 1 April 1951 – Railways priorities transferred to Ministry of Railways.
    3. 1 February 1951 – Maritime Shipping transferred to Ministry of Transport.
    4. 1952–1957 – Ministry handled ports, shipping, and inland water transport.