The Ministry of Heavy Industries is an executive agency of the Government of India. The Ministry entails for promoting the engineering industry viz. machine tools, heavy electrical, industrial machinery, and auto industry and administration of 40 operating Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) and 4 autonomous organizations.

As of June 2024, the Honourable Minister is H. D. Kumaraswamy and the Honourable Minister of State is Bhupathi Raju Srinivasa Varma.

The Ministry of Heavy Industries was previously called Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprise. On 13 June 1956 the Ministry has been renamed as Ministry of Heavy Industries as the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) was shifted to the Ministry of Finance.

There are four autonomous bodies under the ownership of Ministry of Heavy Industries.

There are 40 CPSUs under the ownership of Ministry of Heavy Industries, of which 16 are operational.

The Industrial sectors regulated by the Ministry of Heavy Industries are:

20 Sub-sectors under the 3 broad sectors are as under: