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PRESIDENT ALLOCATES PORTFOLIOS OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS

Rashtrapati Bhavan : 05.07.2016

The President of India, as advised by the Prime Minister, has directed the allocation of portfolios among the following members of the Union Council of Ministers:-

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 Raj Nath Singh

Home Affairs 

2.

Smt. Sushma Swaraj

External Affairs 

3.

Shri Arun Jaitley

Finance

Corporate Affairs 

4.

Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu

Urban Development

Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation

Information & Broadcasting 

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

Statistics & Programme Implementation 

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

Parliamentary Affairs 

15.

Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad

Law & Justice

Electronics & 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

Rural Development

Panchayati Raj

Drinking Water and Sanitation 

21.

Shri Chaudhary Birender Singh

 

Steel

22.

Shri Jual Oram

Tribal Affairs 

23.

Shri Radha Mohan Singh

Agriculture & Farmers Welfare 

24.

Shri Thaawar Chand Gehlot

Social Justice and Empowerment 

25.

Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani

Textiles 

26.

Dr. Harsh Vardhan

Science and Technology

Earth Sciences 

27.

Shri Prakash Javadekar

Human Resource Development

 

MINISTERS OF STATE

1.

Shri Rao Inderjit Singh

Planning (Independent Charge)

Urban Development

Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation

2.

Shri Bandaru Dattatreya

Labour and Employment (Independent Charge) 

3.

Shri Rajiv Pratap Rudy

Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (Independent Charge) 

4.

Shri Vijay Goel

Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge)

Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation 

5.

Shri Shripad Yesso Naik

AAYUSH (Independent Charge) 

6.

Shri Dharmendra Pradhan

Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge) 

7.

Shri Piyush Goyal

Power (Independent Charge)

Coal (Independent Charge)

New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge)

Mines (Independent Charge) 

8.

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 

9.

Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman

 

Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge)

10.

Dr. Mahesh Sharma

Culture (Independent Charge)

Tourism (Independent Charge)

 

11.

Shri Manoj Sinha

 

Communications (Independent Charge)

Railways 

12.

Shri Anil Madhav Dave

Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge) 

13.

General V.K. Singh

External Affairs

14.

Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar

Finance 

15.

Shri Faggan Singh Kulaste

Health & Family Welfare 

16.

Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

Minority Affairs

Parliamentary Affairs 

17.

Shri S.S. Ahluwalia

Agriculture & Farmers Welfare

Parliamentary Affairs 

18.

Shri Ramdas Athawale

 

Social Justice & Empowerment

19.

Shri Ram Kripal Yadav

Rural Development 

20.

Shri Haribhai Parthbhai Chaudhary

 

Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises

21.

Shri Giriraj Singh

Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises 

22.

Shri Hansraj Gangaram Ahir

Home Affairs 

23.

Shri G.M. Siddeshwara

 

Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises

24.

Shri Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi

Drinking Water & Sanitation 

25.

Shri Rajen Gohain

Railways 

26.

Shri Parshottam Rupala

Agriculture & Farmers Welfare

Panchayati Raj 

27.

Shri M.J. Akbar

External Affairs

28.

Shri Upendra Kushwaha

Human Resources Development 

29.

Shri Radhakrishnan P.

 

Road Transport & Highways

Shipping 

30.

Shri Kiren Rijiju

Home Affairs 

31.

Shri Krishan Pal

Social Justice & Empowerment

32.

Shri Jasvantsinh Sumanbhai Bhabhor

 

Tribal Affairs

33.

Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan

Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation 

34.

Shri Vishnu Deo Sai

Steel 

35.

Shri Sudarshan Bhagat

Agriculture and Farmers Welfare 

36.

Shri Y.S. Chowdary

 

Science and Technology

Earth Science 

37.

Shri Jayant Sinha

 

Civil Aviation

38.

Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

 

Information & Broadcasting

39.

Shri Babul Supriyo

Urban Development

Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation 

40.

Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti

Food Processing Industries 

41.

Shri Vijay Sampla

Social Justice & Empowerment 

42.

Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal

Finance

Corporate Affairs

43.

Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey

Human Resource Development

44.

Shri Ajay Tamta

Textiles

45.

Smt. Krishna Raj

Women & Child Development

46.

Shri Mansukh L. Mandaviya

Road Transport & Highways, Shipping,

Chemicals & Fertilizers

47.

Smt. Anupriya Patel

Health & Family Welfare

48.

Shri C.R. Chaudhary

Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution

49.

Shri P.P. Chaudhary

Law & Justice

Electronics & Information Technology

50.

Dr. Subhash Ramrao Bhamre

Defence

This Release issued at 2258 hrs.