Complete list of ministers & portfolios in Narendra Modi government
HIGHLIGHTS
• BJP President Amit Shah being named home minister and Rajnath Singh will be defence minister
• Nirmala Sitharaman is the new finance minister while former foreign secretary S Jaishankar will be the new External Affairs Minister
NEW DELHI: The government on Friday announced the portfolios of the Union ministers with BJP President Amit Shah being named home minister, Rajnath Singh defence minister, Nirmala Sitharaman finance minister and former foreign secretary S Jaishankar external affairs minister.
Here is the full list of the Union council of ministers with portfolios:
Cabinet ministers
|
NAME OF MINISTER |
PORTFOLIO |
Narendra Modi
|
Ministry of 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 |
Rajnath Singh
|
Minister of defence |
Amit Shah
|
Minister of home affairs |
Nitin Gadkari
|
Minister of road transport and highways
Minister of micro, small and medium enterprises |
D V Sadananda Gowda
|
Minister of chemical and fertilizers |
Nirmala Sitharaman
|
Minister of finance
Minister of corporate affairs |
Ram Vilas Paswan
|
Minister of consumer affairs, food and public distribution |
Narendra Singh Tomar
|
Minister of agriculture and farmers welfare
Minister of rural development
Minister of panchayati raj |
Ravi Shankar Prasad
|
Minister of law and justice
Minister of communications
Minister of electronics and information technology |
Harsimrat Kaur Badal
|
Minister of food processing industries |
Thaawar Chand Gehlot
|
Minister of social justice and empowerment |
Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
|
Minister of external affairs |
Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank'
|
Minister of human resource development |
Arjun Munda
|
Minister of tribal affairs |
Smriti Zubin Irani
|
Minister of women and child development; and
Minister of textiles |
Dr. Harsh Vardhan
|
Minister of health and family welfare;
Minister of science and technology; and
Minister of Earth sciences |
Prakash Javadekar
|
Minister of environment, forest and climate change; and
Minister of information and broadcasting |
Piyush Goyal
|
Minister of railways; and
Minister of commerce and industry |
Dharmendra Pradhan
|
Minister of petroleum and natural gas; and
Minister of steel. |
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
|
Minister of minority affairs |
Pralhad Joshi
|
Minister of parliamentary affairs;
Minister of coal; and
Minister of mines. |
Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey
|
Minister of skill development and entrepreneurship |
Arvind Ganpat Sawant
|
Minister of heavy industries and public enterprise
|
Giriraj Singh
|
Minister of animal husbandry, dairying and fisheries |
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
|
Minister of jal shakti |
Ministers of State (independent charge)
|
NAME OF MINISTER |
PORTFOLIO |
|
Santosh Gangwar |
MoS (independent charge) of ministry of labour
and employment |
|
Rao Inderjit Singh |
MoS (independent charge) of ministry of statistics
and programme implementation |
|
Shripad Yesso Naik |
MoS (independent charge) of ministry of AYUSH
MoS in the ministry of defence |
|
Dr Jitendra Singh |
MoS (independent charge) of ministry of development
of North Eastern region
MoS in the Prime Minister’s Office;
MoS in the ministry of personnel, public grievances
and pensions;
MoS in the department of atomic energy; and
MoS in the department of space |
|
Kiren Rijiju |
MoS (independent charge) of the ministry of youth affairs
and sports;
MoS in the ministry of minority affairs |
|
Prahalad Singh Patel |
MoS (independent charge) of the ministry of culture;
MoS (independent charge) of the ministry of tourism |
|
Raj Kumar Singh |
MoS (independent charge) of the ministry of power;
MoS (independent charge) of the ministry of new
and renewable energy;
MoS in the ministry of skill development
and entrepreneurship |
|
Hardeep Singh Puri |
MoS (independent charge) of the ministry of housing
and urban affairs;
MoS (independent charge) of the ministry of civil aviation;
MoS in the ministry of commerce and industry |
|
Mansukh L. Mandaviya |
MoS (independent charge) of the ministry of shipping;
MoS in the ministry of chemicals and fertilizers
|
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