Reshuffle in Cabinet Portfolios, Govt of India

The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi on Tuesday has inducted 19 new Ministers in the Cabinet exercise and 5 Ministers are also dropped. The reshuffle of Cabinet Portfolios also takes place. The new portfolios of the Ministers are discussed below:

Prime Minister Narendra 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. Inderjit Singh Rao- 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 & Pension, 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