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PRESIDENT ALLOCATES PORTFOLIOS TO CABINET MINISTERS AND MINISTERS OF STATE

Rashtrapati Bhavan : 27.05.2014

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 :-

1.

Shri 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

CABINET MINISTERS

1.

Shri Raj Nath Singh

Home Affairs

2.

Smt. Sushma Swaraj

External Affairs
Overseas Indian Affairs

3.

Shri Arun Jaitley

Finance
Corporate Affairs
Defence

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 D.V. Sadananda Gowda

Railways

7.

Sushri Uma Bharati

Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation

8.

Dr. Najma A. Heptulla

Minority Affairs

9.

Shri Gopinathrao Munde

Rural Development
Panchayati Raj
Drinking Water and Sanitation

10.

Shri Ramvilas Paswan

Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

11.

Shri Kalraj Mishra

Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

12.

Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi

Women and Child Development

13.

Shri Ananthkumar

Chemicals and Fertilizers

14.

Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad

Communications and Information Technology
Law and Justice

15.

Shri Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati

Civil Aviation

16.

Shri Anant Geete

Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

17.

Smt. Harsimrat Kaur Badal

Food Processing Industries

18.

Shri Narendra Singh Tomar

Mines
Steel
Labour and Employment

19.

Shri Jual Oram

Tribal Affairs

20.

Shri Radha Mohan Singh

Agriculture

21.

Shri Thaawar Chand Gehlot

Social Justice and Empowerment

22.

Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani

Human Resource Development

23.

Dr. Harsh Vardhan

Health and Family Welfare

MINISTERS OF STATE

1.

General V.K. Singh

Development of North Eastern Region (Independent Charge)
External Affairs
Overseas Indian Affairs

2.

Shri Inderjit Singh Rao

Planning (Independent Charge)
Statistics and Programme Implementation (Independent Charge)
Defence

3.

Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar

Textiles (Independent Charge)
Parliamentary Affairs
Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation

4.

Shri Shripad Yesso Naik

Culture (Independent Charge)
Tourism (Independent Charge)

5.

Shri Dharmendra Pradhan

Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)

6.

Shri Sarbananda Sonowal

Skill Development, Entrepreneurship, Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge)

7.

Shri Prakash Javadekar

Information and Broadcasting (Independent Charge)
Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge)
Parliamentary Affairs

8.

Shri Piyush Goyal

Power (Independent Charge)
Coal (Independent Charge)
New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge)

9.

Dr. 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.

Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman

Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge)
Finance
Corporate Affairs

11.

Shri G.M. Siddeshwara

Civil Aviation

12.

Shri Manoj Sinha

Railways

13.

Shri Nihalchand

Chemicals and Fertilizers

14.

Shri Upendra Kushwaha

Rural Development
Panchayati Raj
Drinking Water and Sanitation

15.

Shri Radhakrishnan P

Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

16.

Shri Kiren Rijiju

Home Affairs

17.

Shri Krishan Pal

Road Transport and Highways
Shipping

18.

Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan

Agriculture
Food Processing Industries

19.

Shri Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava

Tribal Affairs

20.

Shri Raosaheb Dadarao Danve

Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

21.

Shri Vishnu Deo Sai

Mines
Steel
Labour and Employment

22.

Shri Sudarshan Bhagat

Social Justice and Empowerment

This release issued at 0905 hrs