Portfolios of the new Council of Ministers have been announced.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has kept to himself Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and Departments of Atomic Energy and Space.
Portfolios of Cabinet Ministers are:
Raj Nath Singh – Home Affairs
Sushma Swaraj – External Affairs and Overseas Indian Affairs
Arun Jaitley – Finance, Corporate Affairs and Defence
M. Venkaiah Naidu – Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and Parliamentary Affairs
Nitin Jairam Gadkari – Road Transport, Highways and Shipping
D.V. Sadananda Gowda – Railways
Uma Bharati – Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
Dr. Najma A. Heptulla – Minority Affairs
Gopinathrao Munde – Rural Development, Panchayati Raj and
Drinking Water and Sanitation
Ramvilas Paswan – Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
Kalraj Mishra – Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
Maneka Sanjay Gandhi – Women and Child Development
Ananthkumar -Chemicals and Fertilizers
Ravi Shankar Prasad – Communications, Information Technology and Law and Justice
Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati – Civil Aviation
Anant Geete – Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
Harsimrat Kaur Badal – Food Processing Industries
Narendra Singh Tomar – Mines, Steel and Labour and Employment
Jual Oram – Tribal Affairs
Radha Mohan Singh – Agriculture
Thaawar Chand Gehlot – Social Justice and Empowerment
Smriti Irani – Human Resource Development
Dr. Harsh Vardhan – Health and Family Welfare
MINISTERS OF STATE
General V.K. Singh -Development of North Eastern Region (Independent Charge), External Affairs and Overseas Indian Affairs
Inderjit Singh Rao – Planning (Independent Charge)
Statistics and Programme Implementation (Independent Charge) and Defence
Santosh Kumar Gangwar – Textiles (Independent Charge)
Parliamentary Affairs, Water Resources and River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
Shripad Yesso Naik – Culture (Independent Charge) and
Tourism (Independent Charge)
Dharmendra Pradhan – Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)
Sarbananda Sonowal – Skill Development, Entrepreneurship and Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge)
Prakash Javadekar – Information and Broadcasting (Independent Charge), Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge) and Parliamentary Affairs
Piyush Goyal – Power (Independent Charge), Coal (Independent Charge), New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge)
Dr. Jitendra Singh – Science and Technology (Independent Charge), Earth Sciences (Independent Charge), PMO,
Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space
Nirmala Sitharaman- Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge), Finance and Corporate Affairs
G.M. Siddeshwara -Civil Aviation
Manoj Sinha – Railways
Nihalchand – Chemicals and Fertilizers
Upendra Kushwaha- Rural Development, Panchayati Raj and
Drinking Water and Sanitation
Radhakrishnan P – Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
Kiren Rijiju – Home Affairs
Krishan Pal – Road Transport and Highways and Shipping
Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan – Agriculture and Food Processing Industries
Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava- Tribal Affairs
Raosaheb Dadarao Danve – Consumer Affairs and Food and Public Distribution
Vishnu Deo Sai – Mines, Steel and Labour and Employment
Sudarshan Bhagat – Social Justice and Empowerment.
All important policy issues and all other portfolios not allocated to any Minister have also been retained by the Prime Minister.
The Portfolios were announced in a press communique by the Rashtrapati Bhawan this morning.
