As the Prime Minister of the nation Mr Narendra Modi will hold the rights to Finance, Defense and Corporate affairs, 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 other minister.The newly elected Ministers have already started assuming office and are occupying their respective chambers.
They are scheduled to meet Mr Modi at 5:00 PM, today in their first Cabinet meeting after the swearing in ceremony yesterday. As per the Rashtrapati Bhavan communiqué ,the portfolio allocation of 46 ministers, including 24 cabinet ministers is given as follows.
Cabinet Ministers include:
Rajnath Singh: Home Affairs
Sushma Swaraj: External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs
Arun Jaitley: Finance, Corporate Affairs, Defence
M. Venkaiah Naidu: Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Parliamentary Affairs
Nitin Gadkari: Road Transport and Highways, Shipping
D.V. Sadananda Gowda: Railways
Uma Bharati: Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Najma A. Heptulla: Minority Affairs
Gopinathrao Munde: Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation
Ramvilas Paswan: Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
Kalraj Mishra: Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
Maneka Gandhi: Women and Child Development
Ananth Kumar: Chemicals and Fertilizers
Ravi Shankar Prasad: Communications and Information Technology, Law and Justice
Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati: Civil Aviation
Anant Geete: Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
Harsimrat Kaur Badal: Food Processing Industries
Narendra Singh Tomar: Mines, Steel, Labour and Employment
Jual Oram: Tribal Affairs
Radha Mohan Singh: Agriculture
Thaawar Chand Gehlot: Social Justice and Empowerment
Smriti Irani: Human Resource Development
Harsh Vardhan: Health and Family Welfare
The Ministers of State include:
V.K. Singh: Development of North Eastern Region (Independent Charge), External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs
Inderjit Singh Rao: Planning (Independent Charge), Statistics and Programme Implementation (Independent Charge), Defence
Santosh Kumar Gangwar: Textiles (Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs, Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
Shripad Yesso Naik: Culture (Independent Charge), Tourism (Independent Charge)
Dharmendra Pradhan: Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge) Sarbananda Sonowal: Skill Development, Entrepreneurship, Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge)
Prakash Javadekar: Information and Broadcasting (Independent Charge), Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs
Piyush Goyal: Power (Independent Charge), Coal (Independent Charge), New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge)
Jitendra Singh: Science and Technology (Independent Charge), Earth Sciences (Independent Charge), Prime Minister Office, Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space
Nirmala Sitharaman: Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge), Finance, Corporate Affairs
G.M. Siddeshwara: Civil Aviation
Manoj Sinha: Railways
Nihalchand: Chemicals and Fertilizers
Upendra Kushwaha: Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation
P. Radhakrishnan: Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
Kiren Rijiju, Home Affairs Krishan Pal: Road Transport and Highways, Shipping
Sanjeev Kumar Balyan: Agriculture, Food Processing Industries
Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava: Tribal Affairs
Raosaheb Dadarao Danve: Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
Vishnu Deo Sai: Mines, Steel, Labour and Employment
Sudarshan Bhagat: Social Justice and Empowerment