President appoints Cabinet Ministers, Ministers of State (Independent Charge) and Ministers of State

President appoints Cabinet Ministers, Ministers of State (Independent Charge) and Ministers of State

PRESS COMMUNIQUE

 

The President of India, as advised by the Prime Minister, has   directed the allocation of portfolios among the following members of the Union Council of Ministers :-   

1.

Shri Narendra Modi

Prime Minister

Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions

Department of Atomic Energy Department of Space

All important policy issues

and all other portfolios not allocated to any Minister

 

CABINET MINISTERS

 

1.

Shri Raj Nath Singh

Home Affairs

 

2.

Smt. Sushma Swaraj

External Affairs

Overseas Indian Affairs

 

3.

Shri Arun Jaitley

Finance

Corporate Affairs

Defence

 

4.

Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu

Urban Development

Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation

Parliamentary Affairs

 

5.

Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari

Road Transport and Highways

Shipping

 

6.

Shri D.V. Sadananda Gowda

Railways

7.

Sushri Uma Bharati

Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation

 

8.

Dr. Najma A. Heptulla

Minority Affairs

9.

Shri Gopinathrao Munde

Rural Development

Panchayati Raj

Drinking Water and Sanitation

 

10.

Shri Ramvilas Paswan

Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

 

11.

Shri Kalraj Mishra

Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

 

12.

Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi

Women and Child Development

 

13.

Shri Ananthkumar

Chemicals and Fertilizers

 

14.

Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad

Communications and Information Technology

Law and Justice

 

15.

Shri Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati

 

Civil Aviation

16.

Shri Anant Geete

Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

 

17.

Smt. Harsimrat Kaur Badal

Food Processing Industries

 

18.

Shri Narendra Singh Tomar

Mines

Steel

Labour and Employment

 

19.

Shri Jual Oram

Tribal Affairs

 

20.

Shri Radha Mohan Singh

Agriculture

 

21.

Shri Thaawar Chand Gehlot

Social Justice and Empowerment

 

22.

Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani

Human Resource Development

 

23.

Dr. Harsh Vardhan

Health and Family Welfare

 

 

MINISTERS OF STATE

 

1.

General V.K. Singh

Development of North Eastern Region(Independent Charge)

External Affairs

Overseas Indian Affairs

 

2.

Shri Inderjit Singh Rao

Planning (Independent Charge)

Statistics and Programme Implementation (Independent Charge)

Defence

 

3.

Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar

Textiles (Independent Charge)

Parliamentary Affairs

Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation

 

4.

Shri Shripad Yesso Naik

Culture (Independent Charge)

Tourism (Independent Charge)

 

5.

Shri Dharmendra Pradhan

Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)

 

6.

Shri Sarbananda Sonowal

Skill Development, Entrepreneurship, Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge)

 

7.

Shri Prakash Javadekar

Information and Broadcasting (Independent Charge)

Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge)

Parliamentary Affairs

 

8.

Shri Piyush Goyal

Power (Independent  Charge)

Coal (Independent Charge)

New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge)

 

9.

Dr. 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

 

10.

Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman

Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge)

Finance

Corporate Affairs

 

11.

Shri G.M. Siddeshwara

Civil Aviation

 

12.

Shri Manoj Sinha

Railways

 

13.

Shri Nihalchand

Chemicals and Fertilizers

 

14.

Shri Upendra Kushwaha

Rural Development

Panchayati Raj

Drinking Water and Sanitation

 

15.

Shri Radhakrishnan P

Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

 

16.

Shri Kiren Rijiju

Home Affairs

 

17.

Shri Krishan Pal

Road Transport and Highways

Shipping

 

18.

Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan

Agriculture

Food Processing Industries

 

19.

Shri Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava

 

Tribal Affairs

 

20.

Shri Raosaheb Dadarao Danve

Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

21.

Shri Vishnu Deo Sai

Mines

Steel

Labour and Employment

 

22.

Shri Sudarshan Bhagat

Social Justice and Empowerment

 

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