Mr.Narendra Modi swore in as the 15th Prime Minister of India yesterday. As many as 23 cabinet minsters, 10 union ministers of state with independent charge and 12 minister of state have also sworn in as the ministers. The portfolios of the ministers are as follows.
Cabinet Ministers:
Narendra Modi – Prime Minister, 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 – Home Affairs
Sushma Swaraj – External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs
Arun Jaitley – Finance, Corporate Affairs, Defence
Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati – Civil Aviation
M Venkaiah Naidu – Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Parliamentary Affairs
Nitin Gadkari – Road Transport and Highways, Shipping
D V Sadananda Gowda – Railways
Uma Bharti – Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
Najma Heptullah – Minority Affairs
Gopinath Munde – Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation
Ramvilas Paswan – Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
Kalraj Mishra – Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
Maneka Gandhi – Women and Child Development
Ananth Kumar – Chemicals and Fertilizers
Ravi Shankar Prasad – Communications and Information Technology, Law and Justice
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Anant Geete – Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
Harsimrat Kaur Badal – Food Processing Industries
Narendra Singh Tomar – Mines, Steel, Labour and Employment
Jual Oram – Tribal Affairs
Radha Mohan Singh – Agriculture
Thaawar Chand Gehlot – Social Justice and Empowerment
Smriti Zubin Irani – Human Resource Development
Dr Harsh Vardhan – Health and Family Welfare
Ministers of State:
General (Retd) V K 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)
Manoj Sinha – Railways
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
G M Siddeshwara – Civil Aviation
Nihalchand – 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
Dr 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