Cabinet reshuffle: Portfolios of Modi’s ministers

Prime Minister Narendra Modi rejigged his council of ministers on Tuesday, inducting 19 new ministers in an exercise aimed both at pleasing voters in states headed for elections next year as well as speeding up efforts to boost economic growth. He also dropped five ministers.

Smriti Irani was removed as the HRD minister following a cabinet reshuffle on Tuesday, with Prakash Javadekar being given the post.

President Pranab Mukherjee, Vice President Hamid Ansari and Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the newly sworn-in ministers at the oath taking ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. (PTI Photo)

Irani has been given the textiles ministry.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi rejigged his council of ministers on Tuesday, inducting 19 new ministers in an exercise aimed both at pleasing voters in states headed for elections next year as well as speeding up efforts to boost economic growth. He also dropped five ministers.

Below are the portfolios of the Union Council of Ministers:

Prime Minister Narendra Modi: Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space, All important policy issues, and All other portfolios not allocated to any Minister

Cabinet Ministers	Portfolios
Rajnath Singh	Home Affairs
Sushma Swaraj	External Affairs
Arun Jaitley	Finance and Corporate Affairs
M. Venkaiah Naidu	Information & Broadcasting Urban Development, Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation
Nitin Jairam Gadkari	Road Transport and Highways Shipping
Manohar Parrikar	Defence
Suresh Prabhu	Railways
D. V. Sadananda Gowda	Statistics & Programme Implementation
Uma Bharati	Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation
Dr. Najma A. Heptulla	Minority Affairs
Ramvilas Paswan	Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution
Kalraj Mishra	Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
Maneka Sanjay Gandhi	Women & Child Development
Ananthkumar	Parliamentary Affairs Chemicals & Fertilisers
Ravi Shankar Prasad	Law & Justice Electronics & Information Technology
Jagat Prakash Nadda	Health & Family Welfare
Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati	Civil Aviation
Anant Geete	Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises
Harsimrat Kaur Badal	Food Processing Industries
Narendra Singh Tomar	Rural Development, Panchayati Raj Drinking Water & Sanitation
Chaudhary Birender Singh	Steel
Jual Oram	Tribal Affairs
Radha Mohan Singh	Agriculture & Farmers Welfare
Thaawar Chand Gehlot	Social Justice and Empowerment
Smriti Zubin Irani	Textiles
Dr. Harsh Vardhan	Science & Technology, Earth Sciences
Prakash Javadekar	Human Resource Development

Ministers of State	Portfolios
Rao Inderjit Singh	Planning (Independent Charge) Urban Development Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation
Bandaru Dattatreya	Labour & Employment (Independent Charge)
Rajiv Pratap Rudy	Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (Independent Charge)
Vijay Goel	Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge) Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation
Shripad Yesso Naik	AAYUSH (Independent Charge)
Dharmendra Pradhan	Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)
Piyush Goyal	Power (Independent Charge) Coal (Independent Charge) New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge) Mines (Independent Charge)
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
Nirmala Sitharaman	Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge)
Dr. Mahesh Sharma	Culture (Independent Charge) Tourism (Independent Charge)
Manoj Sinha	Communications (Independent Charge) Railways
Anil Madhav Dave	Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge)
General V. K. Singh	External Affairs
Santosh Kumar Gangwar	Finance
Faggan Singh Kulaste	Health & Family Welfare
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi	Minority Affairs Parliamentary Affairs
S. S. Ahluwalia	Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Parliamentary Affairs
Ramdas Athawale	Social Justice & Empowerment
Ram Kripal Yadav	Rural Development
Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary	Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
Giriraj Singh	Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
Hansraj Gangaram Ahir	Home Affairs
G. M. Siddeshwara	Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises
Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi	Drinking Water & Sanitation
Rajen Gohain	Railways
Parshottam Rupala	Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Panchayati Raj
M. J. Akbar	External Affairs
Upendra Kushwaha	Human Resources Development
Radhakrishnan P	Road Transport & Highways Shipping
Kiren Rijiju	Home Affairs
Krishan Pal	Social Justice & Empowerment
Jasvantsinh Sumanbhai Bhabhor	Tribal Affairs
Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan	Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation
Vishnu Deo Sai	Steel
Sudarshan Bhagat	Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
Y. S. Chowdary	Science & Technology Earth Science
Jayant Sinha	Civil Aviation
Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore	Information & Broadcasting
Babul Supriyo	Urban Development Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation
Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti	Food Processing Industries
Vijay Sampla	Social Justice & Empowerment
Arjun Ram Meghwal	Finance Corporate Affairs
Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey	Human Resource Development
Ajay Tamta	Textiles
Krishna Raj	Women & Child Development
Mansukh L. Mandaviya	Road Transport & Highways, Shipping, Chemicals & Fertilizers
Anupriya Patel	Health & Family Welfare
C. R. Chaudhary	Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution
P. P. Chaudhary	Law & Justice Electronics & Information Technology
Dr. Subhash Ramrao Bhamre	Defence