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PRESIDENT ALLOCATES PORTFOLIOS OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS

Rashtrapati Bhavan : 09.11.2014

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 issuesand 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


This release issued at 2310 hrs.