Prime Minister Narendra Modi rejigged his council of ministers on Tuesday, inducting 19 new ministers. He also dropped five ministers after reviewing the performance of each minister. Smriti Irani was removed as the HRD minister, with Prakash Javadekar being given the post. Irani has been given the textiles ministry.
Below are the portfolios of the Union Council of Ministers:
Prime Minister Modi: Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space, All important policy issues, and All other portfolios not allocated to any Minister.
Cabinet Ministers’ Portfolios
1 Rajnath Singh: Home Affairs
2 Sushma Swaraj: External Affairs
3 Arun Jaitley: Finance and Corporate Affairs
4 M. Venkaiah Naidu: Information & Broadcasting Urban Development, Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation
5 Nitin Jairam Gadkari: Road Transport and Highways Shipping
6 Manohar Parrikar: Defence
7 Suresh Prabhu: Railways
8 D. V. Sadananda Gowda: Statistics & Programme Implementation
9 Uma Bharati: Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation
10 Dr. Najma A. Heptulla: Minority Affairs
11 Ramvilas Paswan: Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution
12 Kalraj Mishra: Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
13 Maneka Sanjay Gandhi: Women & Child Development
14 Ananthkumar: Parliamentary Affairs Chemicals & Fertilisers
15 Ravi Shankar Prasad: Law & Justice Electronics & Information Technology
16 Jagat Prakash Nadda: Health & Family Welfare
17 Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati: Civil Aviation
18 Anant Geete: Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises
19 Harsimrat Kaur Badal: Food Processing Industries
20 Narendra Singh Tomar: Rural Development, Panchayati Raj Drinking Water & Sanitation
21 Chaudhary Birender Singh: Steel
22 Jual Oram: Tribal Affairs
23 Radha Mohan Singh: Agriculture & Farmers Welfare
24 Thaawar Chand Gehlot: Social Justice and Empowerment
25 Smriti Zubin Irani: Textiles
26 Dr. Harsh Vardhan: Science & Technology, Earth Sciences
27 Prakash Javadekar: Human Resource Development
Ministers of State Portfolios
1 Rao Inderjit Singh: Planning (Independent Charge) Urban Development Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation
2 Bandaru Dattatreya: Labour & Employment (Independent Charge)
3 Rajiv Pratap Rudy: Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (Independent Charge)
4 Vijay Goel: Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge) Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation
5 Shripad Yesso Naik: AAYUSH (Independent Charge)
6 Dharmendra Pradhan: Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)
7 Piyush Goyal: Power (Independent Charge) Coal (Independent Charge) New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge) Mines (Independent Charge)
8 Dr. Jitendra Singh: Development of North Eastern Region (Independent Charge) Prime Minister’s Office Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions Department of Atomic Energy Department of Space
9 Nirmala Sitharaman: Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge)
10 Dr. Mahesh Sharma: Culture (Independent Charge) Tourism (Independent Charge)
11 Manoj Sinha: Communications (Independent Charge) Railways
12 Anil Madhav Dave: Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge)
13 General V. K. Singh: External Affairs
14 Santosh Kumar Gangwar: Finance
15 Faggan Singh Kulaste: Health & Family Welfare
16 Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi: Minority Affairs Parliamentary Affairs
17 S. S. Ahluwalia: Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Parliamentary Affairs
18 Ramdas Athawale: Social Justice & Empowerment
19 Ram Kripal Yadav: Rural Development
20 Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary: Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
21 Giriraj Singh: Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
22 Hansraj Gangaram Ahir: Home Affairs
23 G. M. Siddeshwara: Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises
24 Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi: Drinking Water & Sanitation
25 Rajen Gohain: Railways
26 Parshottam Rupala: Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Panchayati Raj
27 M. J. Akbar: External Affairs
28 Upendra Kushwaha: Human Resources Development
29 Radhakrishnan P: Road Transport & Highways Shipping
30 Kiren Rijiju: Home Affairs
31 Krishan Pal: Social Justice & Empowerment
32 Jasvantsinh Sumanbhai Bhabhor: Tribal Affairs
33 Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan: Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation
34 Vishnu Deo Sai: Steel
35 Sudarshan Bhagat: Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
36 Y. S. Chowdary: Science & Technology Earth Science
37 Jayant Sinha: Civil Aviation
38 Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore: Information & Broadcasting
39 Babul Supriyo: Urban Development Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation
40 Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti: Food Processing Industries
41 Vijay Sampla: Social Justice & Empowerment
42 Arjun Ram Meghwal: Finance Corporate Affairs
43 Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey: Human Resource Development
44 Ajay Tamta: Textiles
45 Krishna Raj: Women & Child Development
46 Mansukh L. Mandaviya: Road Transport & Highways, Shipping, Chemicals & Fertilizers
47 Anupriya Patel: Health & Family Welfare
48 C. R. Chaudhary: Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution
49 P. P. Chaudhary: Law & Justice Electronics & Information Technology
50 Dr. Subhash Ramrao Bhamre: Defence
