Portfolios of new union ministers

New Delhi, 9 November 2014

Allocation of Portfolios amongst the members of the Council of Ministers

The President of India, as advised by the Prime Minister, has directed that the allocation of portfolios amongst the members of the Council of Ministers shall be as below:-

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi: 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

CABINET MINISTERS

1. Shri Rajnath Singh: Home Affairs

2. Smt. Sushma Swaraj: External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs

3. Shri Arun Jaitley: Finance, Corporate Affairs, Information & Broadcasting

4. Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu: Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Parliamentary Affairs

5. Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari: Road Transport and Highways, Shipping

6. Shri Manohar Parrikar: Defence

7. Shri Suresh Prabhu: Railways

8. Shri D.V. Sadananda Gowda: Law & Justice

9. Sushri Uma Bharati: Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation

10. Dr. Najma A. Heptulla: Minority Affairs

11. Shri Ramvilas Paswan: Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

12. Shri Kalraj Mishra: Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

13. Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi: Women and Child Development

14. Shri Ananthkumar: Chemicals and Fertilizers

15. Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad: Communications and Information Technology

16. Shri Jagat Prakash Nadda: Health & Family Welfare

17. Shri Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati: Civil Aviation

18. Shri Anant Geete: Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

19. Smt. Harsimrat Kaur Badal: Food Processing Industries

20. Shri Narendra Singh Tomar: Mines, Steel

21. Shri Chaudhary Birender Singh: Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation

22. Shri Jual Oram: Tribal Affairs

23. Shri Radha Mohan Singh: Agriculture

24. Shri Thaawar Chand Gehlot: Social Justice and Empowerment

25. Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani: Human Resource Development

26. Dr. Harsh Vardhan: Science and Technology, Earth Sciences

MINISTERS OF STATE

27. General V.K. Singh: Statistics and Programme Implementation (Independent Charge), External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs

28. Shri Inderjit Singh Rao: Planning (Independent Charge), Defence

29. Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar: Textiles (Independent Charge)

30. Shri Bandaru Dattatreya: Labour and Employment (Independent Charge)

31. Shri Rajiv Pratap Rudy: Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs

32. Shri Shripad Yesso Naik: AAYUSH (Independent Charge), Health & Family Welfare

33. Shri Dharmendra Pradhan: Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)

34. Shri Sarbananda Sonowal: Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge)

35. Shri Prakash Javadekar: Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge)

36. Shri Piyush Goyal: Power (Independent Charge), Coal (Independent Charge), New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge)

37. 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

38. Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman: Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge)

39. Dr. Mahesh Sharma: Culture (Independent Charge), Tourism (Independent Charge), Civil Aviation

40. Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi: Minority Affairs, Parliamentary Affairs

41. Shri Ram Kripal Yadav: Drinking Water & Sanitation

42. Shri Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary: Home Affairs

43. Shri Sanwar Lal Jat: Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation

44. Shri Mohanbhai Kalyanjibhai Kundariya: Agriculture

45. Shri Giriraj Singh: Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises

46. Shri Hansraj Gangaram Ahir: Chemicals & Fertilizers

47. Shri G.M. Siddeshwara: Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises

48. Shri Manoj Sinha: Railways

49. Shri Nihalchand: Panchayati Raj

50. Shri Upendra Kushwaha: Human Resource Development

51. Shri Radhakrishnan P.: Road Transport & Highways, Shipping

52. Shri Kiren Rijiju: Home Affairs

53. Shri Krishan Pal: Social Justice & Empowerment

54. Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan: Agriculture

55. Shri Manuskhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava: Tribal Affairs

56. Shri Raosaheb Dadarao Danve: Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

57. Shri Vishnu Deo Sai: Mines, Steel

58. Shri Sudarshan Bhagat: Rural Development

59. Prof. (Dr.) Ram Shankar Katheria: Human Resource Development

60. Shri Y.S. Chowdary: Science and Technology, Earth Science

61. Shri Jayant Sinha: Finance

62. Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore: Information & Broadcasting

63. Shri Babul Supria (Babul Supriyo) Baral: Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation

64. Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti: Food Processing Industries

65. Shri Vijay Sampla: Social Justice & Empowerment

Changes made to portfolios:

Arun Jaitley gets Information & Broadcasting, loses Defence

Manohar Parrikar(New) gets Defence

Suresh Prabhu(New) gets Railways

Nitin Gadkari loses Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking water and sanitation

DV Sadanand Gowda loses Railways, gets Law & Justice

Ravi Shankar Prasad loses Law and Justice

Jagat Prakash Nadda(New) gets Health & Family Welfare

Narendra Singh Tomar loses Labour and Employment

Harsh Vardhan loses Health and Family Welfare, gets Science and Technology, Earth Sciences

MoS

General VK Singh gets Statistics and Programme Implementation(Independent Charge), loses Development of North Eastern Region(Independent Charge)

Inderjit Singh Rao loses Statistics and Programme Implementation(Independent Charge).

Santosh Kumar Gangwar loses Parliamentary Affairs, water resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation.

Bandaru Dattatreya(New) gets Labours and Employment(Independent Charge).

Shripad Yesso Naik loses Independent charges of Culture and Tourism and gets Aayush(Independent Charge), Health & Family Welfare

Sarbananda Sonowal loses Skill Development, Entrepreneurship

Prakash Javadekar loses Information Broadcasting(Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs

Dr. Jitendra Singh gets Development of North Eastern Region(Independent Charge).

Nirmala Sitharaman loses Finance, Corporate Affairs

Dr. Mahesh Sharma(New) gets Culture(Independent Charge), Tourism(Independent Charge), Civil Aviation

Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi(New) gets Minority Affairs, Parliamentary Affairs

Ram Kripal Yadav(New) gets Drinking Water & Sanitation

Haribhai Chaudhary(New) gets Home Affairs

Sanwar Lal Jat(New) gets Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation

Mohanbhai Kundariya(New) gets Agriculture

Giriraj Singh(New) gets Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises

Hansraj Ahir(New) gets Chemicals & Fertilizers

GM Siddeshwara(New) gets Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises

Manoj Sinha(New) gets Railways

Nihalchand loses Chemical and Fertilizers gets Panchayati Raj

Upendra Kushwaha loses Rural Development, Panchayati Raj and Drinking Water and Sanitation, and gets Human Resource Development

Radhakrishnan P loses Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises and gets Road Transport and Highways, Shipping

Krishna Pal loses Road Transport and Highways Shipping and gets Social Justice & Empowerment

Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan loses Food Processing & Industries

Vishnu Dev Sai loses Labour & Employment

Sudarshan Bhagat loses Social Justice and Empowerment and gets Rural Development

Prof. (Dr.) Ram Shankar Katheria(New) Human Resource Development

Y.S. Chowdary(New) gets Science and Technology, Earth Science

Jayant Sinha(New) gets Finance

Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore(New) gets Information & Broadcasting

Babul Supria (Babul Supriyo) Baral(New) gets Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation

Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti(New) gets Food Processing Industries

Vijay Sampla(New) gets Social Justice & Empowerment