Tuesday, 27 May 2014

Narendra Modi-Team: List of Cabinet Ministers and Mnisters of State

Narendra Modi assumed office as India's 15th Prime Minister on Tuesday morning and announced the much speculated portfolios for the Cabinet and the Ministers of State (MoS) who took oath at a grand ceremony on Monday. Here is a list of who does what in the new council of ministers.

PM Narendra Modi: 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.


Here is what Team Modi looks like:

Cabinet Ministers:

1. Rajnath Singh: Home affairs

2. Sushma Swaraj: External affairs, overseas Indian affairs

3. Arun Jaitley: Finance, corporate affairs, defence

4. M Venkaiah Naidu: Urban development, housing and urban poverty alleviation, parliamentary affairs

5. Nitin Gadkari: Road transport and highways, shipping

6. D V Sadananda Gowda: Railways

7. Uma Bharati: Water resources, river development and Ganga rejuvenation

8. Najma A Heptulla: Minority affairs

9. Gopinathrao Munde: Rural development, panchayati raj, drinking water and sanitation

10. Ram Vilas Paswan: Consumer affairs, food and public distribution

11. Kalraj Mishra: Micro, small and medium enterprises

12. Maneka Gandhi: Women and child development

13. Ananth Kumar: Chemicals and fertilizers

14. Ravi Shankar Prasad: Communications and information technology, law and justice

15. Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati: Civil aviation

16. Anant Geete: Heavy industries and public enterprises

17. Harsimrat Kaur Badal: Food processing industries

18. Jual Oram: Tribal affairs

19. Radha Mohan Singh: Agriculture

20. Thaawar Chand Gehlot: Social justice and empowerment

21. Smriti Irani: Human resource development

22. Harsh Vardhan: Health and family welfare

23. Narendra Singh Tomar: Mines, Steel, Labour & Employment

24. Harsimrat Kaur: Food Processing Industries

Ministers of State (Independent Charge):
  •  Gen VK Singh - Development of North Eastern Region (Independent Charge), External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs
  •  Inderjit Singh Rao - Planning (Independent Charge), Statistics and Programme Implementation (Independent Charge), Defence
  •  Santosh Kumar Gangwar - Textiles (Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs, Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
  •  Shripad Yesso Naik - Culture (Independent Charge), Tourism (Independent Charge)
  •  Dharmendra Pradhan - Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)
  •  Sarbananda Sonowal - Skill Development, Entrepreneurship, Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge)
  •  Prakash Javadekar - Information and Broadcasting (Independent Charge), Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs
  •  Piyush Goyal - Power (Independent  Charge), Coal (Independent Charge), New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge)
  •  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
  •  Nirmala Sitharaman - Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge), Finance, Corporate Affairs

Ministers of State:
  •  GM Siddeshwara - Civil Aviation
  •  Manoj Sinha - Railways
  •  Nihal Chand - Chemicals and Fertilizers
  •  Upendra Kushwaha - Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation
  •  Radhakrishnan P - Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
  •  Kiren Rijiju - Home Affairs
  •  Krishan Pal - Road Transport and Highways, Shipping
  •  Sanjeev Kumar Balyan - Agriculture, Food Processing Industries
  •  Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava - Tribal Affairs
  •  Raosaheb Dadarao Danve - Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
  •  Vishnu Deo Sai - Mines, Steel, Labour and Employment
  •  Sudarshan Bhagat - Social Justice and Empowerment

Source: Hindustan Times

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