India
Updated : Nov 10, 2014, 09:26 AM IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday not only expanded his council of ministers but reshuffled portfolios of several ministers. Arun Jaitely, besides holding Finance and Corporate Affairs, will now also hold Information and Broadcasting as well. He will also now act as Union Cabinet’s spokesman.
The newly inducted former Goa chief minister Manohar Parikar will look after Defence and Suresh Prabhu the important portfolio of Railways. Sadanad Gowda has been shifted to the Ministry of Law. So also Dr Harsh Vardhan, who has been shunted out from Health Ministry, which has been given to J P Nadda. Dr Harsh Vardhan is now minister of Science and Technology. Haryana Jat leader Chaudhary Birender Singh is the minister for Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation. Nitin Gadkare was holding it as an additional portfolio after the demise of Gopinath Munde.
Col Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore will assist Jaitely in Information and Broadcasting, while Jayant Sinha will be his deputy in finance ministry. General VK Singh has been divested of portfolio of Northeastern regions and this department will now has been vested with Jatinder Singh. Prakash Javdekar will continue to hold portfolio of environment and forests.
Here are porfolios:
Prime Minister 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 Rajnath Singh: Home Affairs
2 Sushma Swaraj: External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs
3 Arun Jaitley: Finance, Corporate Affairs, Information & Broadcasting
4 M. Venkaiah Naidu: Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Parliamentary Affairs
5 Nitin Jairam Gadkari: Road Transport and Highways, Shipping
6 Manohar Parrikar: Defence
7 Suresh Prabhu: Railways
8 DV Sadananda Gowda: Law & Justice
9 Su Uma Bharati: Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
10 Dr. Najma A. Heptulla: Minority Affairs
11 Ramvilas Paswan: Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
12 Kalraj Mishra: Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
13 Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi: Women and Child Development
14 Ananthkumar: Chemicals and Fertilizers
15 Ravi Shankar Prasad: Communications and Information Technology
16 Jagat Prakash Nadda: Health & Family Welfare
17 Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati: Civil Aviation
18 Anant Geete: Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
19 Smt. Harsimrat Kaur Badal: Food Processing Industries
20 Narendra Singh Tomar: Mines, Steel
21 Chaudhary Birender Singh: Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation
22 Jual Oram: Tribal Affairs
23 Radha Mohan Singh: Agriculture
24 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 Inderjit Singh Rao: Planning (Independent Charge), Defence
29 Santosh Kumar Gangwar: Textiles (Independent Charge)
30 Bandaru Dattatreya: Labour and Employment (Independent Charge)
31 Rajiv Pratap Rudy: Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs
32 Shripad Yesso Naik: AAYUSH (Independent Charge), Health & Family Welfare
33 Dharmendra Pradhan: Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)
34 Sarbananda Sonowal: Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge)
35 Prakash Javadekar: Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge)
36 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 Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi: Minority Affairs, Parliamentary Affairs
41 Ram Kripal Yadav: Drinking Water & Sanitation
42 Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary: Home Affairs
43 Sanwar Lal Jat: Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation
44 Mohanbhai Kalyanjibhai Kundariya: Agriculture
45 Giriraj Singh: Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
46 Hansraj Gangaram Ahir: Chemicals & Fertilizers
47 G.M. Siddeshwara: Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises
48 Manoj Sinha: Railways
49 Nihalchand: Panchayati Raj
50 Upendra Kushwaha: Human Resource Development
51 Radhakrishnan P.: Road Transport & Highways, Shipping
52 Kiren Rijiju: Home Affairs
53 Krishan Pal: Social Justice & Empowerment
54 Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan: Agriculture
55 Manuskhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava: Tribal Affairs
56 Raosaheb Dadarao Danve: Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
57 Vishnu Deo Sai: Mines, Steel
58 Sudarshan Bhagat: Rural Development
59 Prof. (Dr.) Ram Shankar Katheria: Human Resource Development
60 YS Chowdary: Science and Technology, Earth Science
61 Jayant Sinha: Finance
62 Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore: Information & Broadcasting
63 Babul Supria (Babul Supriyo) Baral: Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
64 Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti: Food Processing Industries
65 Vijay Sampla: Social Justice & Empowerment