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The Rashtrapati Bhavan has come out with a communique announcing the portfolios of the newly-sworn-in ministers in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's council of ministers:
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1. |
Narendra Modi, Prime Minister
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Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions |
Cabinet ministers:
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1. |
Raj Nath Singh
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Home Affairs |
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2. |
Sushma Swaraj |
External Affairs Overseas Indian Affairs
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3. |
Arun Jaitley |
Finance Corporate Affairs Defence
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4. |
M Venkaiah Naidu |
Urban Development Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Parliamentary Affairs
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5. |
Nitin Jairam Gadkari |
Road Transport and Highways Shipping
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6. |
D.V. Sadananda Gowda |
Railways |
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7. |
Uma Bharati |
Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
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8. |
Najma A. Heptulla |
Minority Affairs |
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9. |
Gopinathrao Munde |
Rural Development Panchayati Raj Drinking Water and Sanitation
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10. |
Ramvilas Paswan |
Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
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11. |
Kalraj Mishra |
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
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12. |
Maneka Sanjay Gandhi |
Women and Child Development
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13. |
Ananthkumar |
Chemicals and Fertilizers
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14. |
Ravi Shankar Prasad |
Communications and Information Technology Law and Justice
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15. |
Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati
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Civil Aviation |
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16. |
Anant Geete |
Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
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17. |
Harsimrat Kaur Badal |
Food Processing Industries
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18. |
Narendra Singh Tomar |
Mines Steel Labour and Employment
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19. |
Jual Oram |
Tribal Affairs
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20. |
Radha Mohan Singh |
Agriculture
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21. |
Thaawar Chand Gehlot |
Social Justice and Empowerment
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22. |
Smriti Zubin Irani |
Human Resource Development
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23. |
Harsh Vardhan |
Health and Family Welfare
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MINISTERS OF STATE
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1. |
General (retd) V.K. Singh |
Development of North Eastern Region (Independent Charge) External Affairs Overseas Indian Affairs
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2. |
Inderjit Singh Rao |
Planning (Independent Charge) Statistics and Programme Implementation (Independent Charge) Defence
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3. |
Santosh Kumar Gangwar |
Textiles (Independent Charge) Parliamentary Affairs Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
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4. |
Shripad Yesso Naik |
Culture (Independent Charge) Tourism (Independent Charge)
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5. |
Dharmendra Pradhan |
Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)
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6. |
Sarbananda Sonowal |
Skill Development, Entrepreneurship, Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge)
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7. |
Prakash Javadekar |
Information and Broadcasting (Independent Charge) Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge) Parliamentary Affairs
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8. |
Piyush Goyal |
Power (Independent Charge) Coal (Independent Charge) New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge) |
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9. |
Jitendra Singh |
Science and Technology (Independent Charge) Earth Sciences (Independent Charge) Prime Minister Office Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions Department of Atomic Energy Department of Space
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10. |
Nirmala Sitharaman |
Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge) Finance Corporate Affairs
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11. |
G.M. Siddeshwara |
Civil Aviation
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12. |
Manoj Sinha |
Railways
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13. |
Nihalchand |
Chemicals and Fertilizers
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14. |
Upendra Kushwaha |
Rural Development Panchayati Raj Drinking Water and Sanitation
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15. |
Radhakrishnan P |
Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
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16. |
Kiren Rijiju |
Home Affairs
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17. |
Krishan Pal |
Road Transport and Highways Shipping
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18. |
Sanjeev Kumar Balyan |
Agriculture Food Processing Industries
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19. |
Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava
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Tribal Affairs
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20. |
Raosaheb Dadarao Danve |
Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution |
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21. |
Vishnu Deo Sai |
Mines Steel Labour and Employment
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22. |
Sudarshan Bhagat |
Social Justice and Empowerment |