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
- Rajnath Singh-Home Affairs
- Sushma Swaraj-External Affairs
- Arun Jaitley- Finance and Corporate Affairs
- M. Venkaiah Naidu-Information & Broadcasting, Urban Development, Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation
- Nitin Jairam Gadkari- Road Transport and Highways, Shipping
- Manohar Parrikar- Defence
- Suresh Prabhu- Railways
- D. V. Sadananda Gowda- Statistics & Programme Implementation
- Uma Bharati- Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation
- Dr. Najma A. Heptulla- Minority Affairs
- Ramvilas Paswan- Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution
- Kalraj Mishra- Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
- Maneka Sanjay Gandhi- Women & Child Development
- Ananthkumar- Parliamentary Affairs, Chemicals & Fertilisers
- Ravi Shankar Prasad- Law & Justice, Electronics & Information Technology
- Jagat Prakash Nadda- Health & Family Welfare
- Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati- Civil Aviation
- Anant Geete- Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises
- Harsimrat Kaur Badal- Food Processing Industries
- Narendra Singh Tomar- Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water & Sanitation
- Chaudhary Birender Singh- Steel
- Jual Oram- Tribal Affairs
- Radha Mohan Singh- Agriculture & Farmers Welfare
- Thaawar Chand Gehlot- Social Justice and Empowerment
- Smriti Zubin Irani- Textiles
- Dr. Harsh Vardhan- Science & Technology, Earth Sciences
- Prakash Javadekar- Human Resource Development
Ministers of State Portfolios
- Inderjit Singh Rao- Planning (Independent Charge), Urban Development, Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation
- Bandaru Dattatreya- Labour & Employment (Independent Charge)
- Rajiv Pratap Rudy- Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (Independent Charge)
- Vijay Goel- Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge), Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation
- Shripad Yesso Naik- AAYUSH (Independent Charge)
- Dharmendra Pradhan- Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)
- Piyush Goyal- Power (Independent Charge), Coal (Independent Charge), New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge), Mines (Independent Charge)
- 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
- Nirmala Sitharaman- Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge)
- Dr. Mahesh Sharma- Culture (Independent Charge), Tourism (Independent Charge)
- Manoj Sinha- Communications (Independent Charge), Railways
- Anil Madhav Dave- Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge)
- ]General V. K. Singh- External Affairs
- Santosh Kumar Gangwar- Finance
- Faggan Singh Kulaste- Health & Family Welfare
- Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi- Minority Affairs, Parliamentary Affairs
- S. S. Ahluwalia, Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Parliamentary Affairs
- Ramdas Athawale- Social Justice & Empowerment
- Ram Kripal Yadav- Rural Development
- Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary- Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
- Giriraj Singh- Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
- Hansraj Gangaram Ahir- Home Affairs
- G. M. Siddeshwara- Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises
- Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi- Drinking Water & Sanitation
- Rajen Gohain- Railways
- Parshottam Rupala- Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Panchayati Raj
- M. J. Akbar- External Affairs
- Upendra Kushwaha- Human Resources Development
- Radhakrishnan P- Road Transport & Highways, Shipping
- Kiren Rijiju- Home Affairs
- Krishan Pal- Social Justice & Empowerment
- Jasvantsinh Sumanbhai Bhabhor- Tribal Affairs
- Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan- Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation
- Vishnu Deo Sai- Steel
- Sudarshan Bhagat- Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
- Y. S. Chowdary- Science & Technology, Earth Science
- Jayant Sinha- Civil Aviation
- Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore- Information & Broadcasting
- Babul Supriyo- Urban Development, Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation
- Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti- Food Processing Industries
- Vijay Sampla- Social Justice & Empowerment
- Arjun Ram Meghwal- Finance, Corporate Affairs
- Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey- Human Resource Development
- Ajay Tamta- Textiles
- Krishna Raj- Women & Child Development
- Mansukh L. Mandaviya- Road Transport & Highways, Shipping, Chemicals & Fertilizers
- Anupriya Patel- Health & Family Welfare
- C. R. Chaudhary- Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution
- P. P. Chaudhary- Law & Justice, Electronics & Information Technology
- Dr. Subhash Ramrao Bhamre- Defence
