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May 31, 2019

India's New Ministers and their Portfolios

Photo: The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, takes Oath of Office and Secrecy, at a Swearing-in Ceremony, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on May 30, 2019.

New Delhi, 31 May 2019 — 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:

Shri Narendra Modi: Prime Minister and also in-charge of: Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy; Department of Space; and All important policy issues; and All other portfolios not allocated to any Minister.

Cabinet Ministers

1. Shri Raj Nath Singh: Minister of Defence.
2. Shri Amit Shah: Minister of Home Affairs.
3. Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari: Minister of Road Transport and Highways; and Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.
4. Shri D.V. Sadananda Gowda: Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers.
5. Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman: Minister of Finance; and Minister of Corporate Affairs.
6. Shri Ramvilas Paswan: Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.
7. Shri Narendra Singh Tomar: Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare; Minister of Rural Development; and Minister of Panchayati Raj.
8. Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad: Minister of Law and Justice; Minister of Communications; and Minister of Electronics and Information Technology.
9. Smt. Harsimrat Kaur Badal: Minister of Food Processing Industries.
10. Shri Thaawar Chand Gehlot: Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment.
11. Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar: Minister of External Affairs.
12. Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’: Minister of Human Resource Development.
13. Shri Arjun Munda: Minister of Tribal Affairs.
14. Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani: Minister of Women and Child Development; and Minister of Textiles.
15. Dr. Harsh Vardhan: Minister of Health and Family Welfare; Minister of Science and Technology; and Minister of Earth Sciences.
16. Shri Prakash Javadekar: Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change; and Minister of Information and Broadcasting.
17. Shri Piyush Goyal: Minister of Railways; and Minister of Commerce and Industry.
18. Shri Dharmendra Pradhan: Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas; and Minister of Steel.
19. Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi: Minister of Minority Affairs.
20. Shri Pralhad Joshi: Minister of Parliamentary Affairs; Minister of Coal; and Minister of Mines.
21. Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey: Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.
22. Shri Arvind Ganpat Sawant: Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises.
23. Shri Giriraj Singh: Minister of Animal Husbandry, Dairying, and Fisheries.
24. Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat: Minister of Jal Shakti.

Ministers of State (Independent Charge)

1. Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar: Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Labour and Employment.
2. Rao Inderjit 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.
3. Shri Shripad Yesso Naik: Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH); and Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence.
4. Dr. Jitendra Singh: Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region; Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office; Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Minister of State in the Department of Atomic Energy; and Minister of State in the Department of Space.
5. Shri Kiren Rijiju: Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Minority Affairs.
6. Shri Prahalad Singh Patel: Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Culture; and Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Tourism.
7. Shri Raj Kumar Singh: Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Power; Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.
8. Shri 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; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
9. Shri Mansukh L. Mandaviya: Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Shipping; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers.

Ministers of State

1. Shri Faggansingh Kulaste: Minister of State in the Ministry of Steel.
2. Shri Ashwini Kumar Choubey: Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
3. Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal: Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises.
4. General (Retd.) V. K. Singh: Minister of State in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.
5. Shri Krishan Pal: Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.
6. Shri Danve Raosaheb Dadarao: Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.
7. Shri G. Kishan Reddy: Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs.
8. Shri Parshottam Rupala: Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
9. Shri Ramdas Athawale: Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.
10. Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti: Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Development.
11. Shri Babul Supriyo: Minister of State in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
12. Shri Sanjeev Kumar Balyan: Minister of State in the Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries.
13. Shri 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.
14. Shri Anurag Singh Thakur: Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs.
15. Shri Angadi Suresh Channabasappa: Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways.
16. Shri Nityanand Rai: Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs.
17. Shri Rattan Lal Kataria: Minister of State in the Ministry of Jal Shakti; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.
18. Shri V. Muraleedharan: Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs.
19. Smt. Renuka Singh Saruta: Minister of State in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs.
20. Shri Som Parkash: Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
21. Shri Rameswar Teli: Minister of State in the Ministry of Food Processing Industries.
22. Shri Pratap Chandra Sarangi: Minister of State in the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries.
23. Shri Kailash Choudhary: Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
24. Sushri Debasree Chaudhuri: Minister of State in the Ministry of Women and Child Development.

Source: President’s Secretariat

Photo: The new Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’, being greeted by the Secretary, Department of Higher Education, R. Subrahmanyam, in New Delhi on May 31, 2019.

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