The New Cabinet Ministry Of India You Must Know About!

Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) came into power on 16^th May 2014, Narendra Modi being the Prime Minister. Narendra Modi announced the new cabinet ministry on 26^th May 2014. As many as 23 Cabinet Ministers and 22 Ministers of State took oath as part of the Narendra Modi government. After restructuring different ministries and departments, Prime Minister Narendra Modi decided to discontinue four Standing Committees of the Cabinet and also reconstitute some crucial Cabinet Committees, including those on Security, Political Affairs, Economic Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs as well as the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC). Here is a list of portfolios of Cabinet Ministers, Minister of State with independent charges and State Minister.

1. 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
2. Rajnath Singh – Home Affairs
3. Sushma Swaraj – External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs
4. Arun Jaitley – Finance, Corporate Affairs, Defence
5. M Venkaiah Naidu – Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Parliamentary Affairs
6. Nitin Gadkari – Road Transport and Highways, Shipping
7. D V Sadananda Gowda – Railways
8. Uma Bharti – Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
9. Najma Heptullah – Minority Affairs
10. Gopinath Munde – Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation
11. Ramvilas Paswan – Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
12. Kalraj Mishra – Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
13. Maneka Gandhi – Women and Child Development
14. Ananth Kumar – Chemicals and Fertilizers
15. Ravi Shankar Prasad – Communications and Information Technology, Law and Justice
16. Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati – Civil Aviation
17. Anant Geete – Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
18. Harsimrat Kaur Badal – Food Processing Industries
19. Narendra Singh Tomar – Mines, Steel, Labour and Employment
20. Jual Oram – Tribal Affairs
21. Radha Mohan Singh – Agriculture
22. Thaawar Chand Gehlot – Social Justice and Empowerment
23. Smriti Zubin Irani – Human Resource Development
24. Dr Harsh Vardhan– Health and Family Welfare

Ministers of State

1. General (Retd) V K Singh – Development of North Eastern Region (Independent Charge), External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs
2. Inderjit Singh Rao – Planning (Independent Charge), Statistics and Programme Implementation (Independent Charge), Defence
3. Santosh Kumar Gangwar – Textiles (Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs, Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
4. Shripad Yesso Naik – Culture (Independent Charge), Tourism (Independent Charge)
5. Dharmendra Pradhan – Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)
6. Sarbananda Sonowal – Skill Development, Entrepreneurship, Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge)
7. Prakash Javadekar – Information and Broadcasting (Independent Charge), Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs
8. Piyush Goyal – Power (Independent  Charge), Coal (Independent Charge), New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge)
9. 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
10. Nirmala Sitharaman – Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge), Finance, Corporate Affairs
11. G M Siddeshwara – Civil Aviation
12. Manoj Sinha – Railways
13. Nihalchand – Chemicals and Fertilizers
14. Upendra Kushwaha – Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation
15. Radhakrishnan P – Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
16. Kiren Rijiju – Home Affairs
17. Krishan Pal – Road Transport and Highways, Shipping
18. Dr Sanjeev Kumar Balyan – Agriculture, Food
19. Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava – Tribal Affairs
20. Raosaheb Dadarao Danve – Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
21. Vishnu Deo Sai – Mines, Steel, Labour and Employment
22. Sudarshan Bhagat – Social Justice and Empowerment

– Tanvi Shah