PM Narendra Modi takes charge of Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space. Here is the full list of cabinet ministers in the second Narendra Modi government
BJP President Amit Shah will be the new Home Minister in the Narendra Modi government while Rajnath Singh will be the new Defence Minister and Nirmala Sitharaman the Finance Minister. Sitharaman will be the first woman Finance Minister.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will retain the Department of Personnel and Training, Atomic Energy and Space as well as all important policy issues and portfolios not allocated. Modi was sworn in on Thursday as prime minister for a second term, helming a 58-member team of ministers, including him and BJP president Amit Shah who makes his debut in the Central government.
Giant slayer Smriti Irani, who defeated Congress President Rahul Gandhi in his family bastion of Amethi, will be the new Women and Child Development minister along with retaining the Textile ministry, according to a communiqué issued by the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Nitin Gadkari, considered one of the best performers during the first term of Modi government for his expeditious project implementation, will continue to be the minister for Road Transport and Highways and has also been given charge of the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.
Piyush Goyal, who was presented the interim budget earlier this year and was expected to take over from Jaitley, has been given the Commerce and Industry ministry in addition to his old charge of Railways. However, the Coal ministry has been taken away from him and given to Pralhad Joshi, a new entrant in Modi Government. Joshi will also be the minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Mines.
Ravi Shankar Prasad will continue as minister of Law and Information Technology. He also gets Telecom, a portfolio he commanded in the first half of Modi 1.0 government. A new Ministry of Jal Shakti has been created and Gajendra Singh Shekhawat will be its minister. Ujjwala-man Dharmendra Pradhan retains his Petroleum portfolio and has also been given charge of the Steel ministry.
| Name | Portfolio |
| Narendra Modi |
Prime Minister, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space |
| Amit Shah |
Minister of Home Affairs |
| Rajnath Singh |
Minister of Defence |
| Nitin Gadkari |
Minister of Road Transport and Highways |
| Sadananda Gowda |
Minister of Chemical and Fertilisers |
| Nirmala Sitharaman |
Finance Minister |
| Ram Vilas Paswan |
Consumer Affairs Minister |
| Narendra Singh Tomar |
Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Rural Development & Panchayati Raj |
| Ravi Shankar Prasad |
Minister of Law and Justice, Minister of Communications, Minister of Electronics and Information Technology |
| Harsimrat Kaur Badal |
Food Processing |
| S Jaishankar |
External Affairs Minister |
| Ramesh Nishank Pokhriyal |
Minister of Human Resource Development |
| Thawar Chand Gehlot |
Social Justice and Empowerment |
| Arjun Munda |
Minister of Tribal Affairs |
| Smriti Irani |
Women and Child |
| Harsh Vardhan |
Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Science and Technology |
| Prakash Javadekar |
Environment, Forest |
| Piyush Goyal |
Railway Ministry |
| Dharmendra Pradhan |
Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Minister of Steel |
| Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi |
Minister of Minority Affairs |
| Pralhad Joshi |
Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Minister of Coal, Minister of Mines |
| Mahendra Nath Pandey |
Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship |
| Arvind Sawant |
Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprise |
| Giriraj Singh |
Minister of Animal Husbandry, Dairying, Fisheries |
| Gajendra Singh Shekhawat |
Ministry of Jal Shakt |
| Santosh Gangwar |
MoS Labour |
| Rao Indrajit Singh |
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation; and Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Planning |
| Shreepad Nayak |
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH), Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence |
| Jitendra Singh |
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region, MoS PMO, Ministry of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public grievances and pensions; MoS in the dept of atomic energy and MoS in dept of space. |
| Kiren Rijiju |
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports and Minister of State in the Ministry of Minority Affairs |
| Prahlad Singh Patel |
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Culture, Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Tourism |
| RK Singh |
Power and renewable energy minister, skill development |
| Hardeep Singh Puri |
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs; Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Civil Aviation, Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry |
| Mansukh Mandaviya |
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Shipping, Minister of State in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers |
| Faggan Singh Kulaste |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Steel |
| Ashwini Chaubey |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare |
| Gen (retd) VK Singh |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways |
| Kishan Pal Gujjar |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment |
| Danve Raosaheb Dadarao |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution |
| G. Kishan Reddy |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs |
| Parshottam Rupala |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare |
| Ramdas Athawale |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment |
| Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Development |
| Babul Supriyo |
MoS in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change |
| Sanjeev Kumar Balyan |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries |
| Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Human Resource Development; Minister of State in the Ministry of Communications; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology |
| Anurag Singh Thakur |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance; and |
| Angadi Suresh Channabasappa |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways |
| Nityanand Rai |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs |
| V Muraleedharan |
Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs |
| Renuka Singh Saruta |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs |
| Som Parkash |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry |
| Rameswar Teli |
MoS Ministry of Food and Processing Industries |
| Pratap Chandra Sarangi |
MoS in the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries |
| Kailash Choudhary |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers |
| Debasree Chaudhuri |
Minister of State of Women and Child Development |
| Arjun Ram Meghwal |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs; Minister of State in the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises |
| Rattan Lal Kataria |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Jal Shakti; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment |
Former Uttarkhand chief minister Ramesh Pokhariyal 'Nishank' is the new Human Resource Development minister while Bihar ally and Lok Janshakti Party chief Ram Vilas Paswam remains Consumer Affairs minister.
The Agriculture ministry has been allocated to Narendra Singh Tomar who also gets the Rural Development and Panchayati Raj portfolio.
Prakash Javadekar has been given the ministries of Information and Broadcasting as well as Environment. D V Sadananda Gowda will be the minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers and Narendra Singh Tomar will be the new minister of Agriculture and Rural Development. Akali Dal leader Harsimrat Kaur Badal continues to be the minister of Food Processing Industries, Thawar Chand Gehlot will be new minister of Social Justice and Empowerment.
Former diplomat Hardeep Puri will be new minister of state with Independent charge of Civil Aviation while former IAS bureaucrat R K Singh will retain the ministries of Power and Renewable Energy in the same capacity. Eight-term BJP MP from Uttar Pradesh Santosh Kumar Gangwar will be MoS with Independent charge for Labour and Employment.
The first meeting of the new Union Cabinet will take place today at 5:30 pm. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Council of Ministers were sworn in on Thursday at Rashtrapati Bhavan. The Union Cabinet for the 17th Lok Sabha includes 24 cabinet ministers, 9 ministers of state with independent charge and 24 Ministers of State (MoS).
Top leaders who were sworn in as cabinet ministers include Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, DV Sadananda Gowda, Nirmala Sitharaman, Ram Vilas Paswan and former foreign secretary S Jaishankar, a surprise pick.
Some of the key ministers in the previous Modi government, including Sushma Swaraj, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore and Maneka Gandhi, are not a part of the new council of ministers, while former finance minister Arun Jaitley opted out of the new cabinet citing health reasons.
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