WHO IS WHO: Portfolios of the Union Council of Ministers

The Prime Minister

Shri 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

The 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
• Information & Broadcasting

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 Manohar Parrikar 

• Defence

7. Shri Suresh Prabhu 

• Railways

8. Shri D. V. Sadananda Gowda 

• Law & Justice

9. Sushri Uma Bharati 

• Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation

10. Dr. Najma A. Heptulla 

• Minority Affairs

11. Shri Ramvilas Paswan 

• Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

12. Shri Kalraj Mishra 

• Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

13. Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi 

• Women and Child Development

14. Shri Ananthkumar 

• Chemicals and Fertilizers

15. Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad 

• Communications and Information Technology

16. Shri Jagat Prakash Nadda 

• Health and Family Welfare

17. Shri Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati 

• Civil Aviation

18. Shri Anant Geete 

• Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

19. Smt. Harsimrat Kaur Badal 

• Food Processing Industries

20. Shri Narendra Singh Tomar 

• Mines
• Steel

21. Shri Chaudhary Birender Singh 

• Rural Development
• Panchayati Raj
• Drinking Water and Sanitation

22. Shri Jual Oram 

• Tribal Affairs

23. Shri Radha Mohan Singh 

• Agriculture

24. Shri Thaawar Chand Gehlot 

• Social Justice and Empowerment

25. Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani 

• Human Resource Development

26. Dr. Harsh Vardhan 

• Science and Technology
• Earth Sciences

The Ministers of State (Independent Charge)

1. General V. K. Singh 

• Statistics and Programme Implementation (Independent Charge)
• External Affairs
• Overseas Indian Affairs

2. Shri Inderjit Singh Rao 

• Planning (Independent Charge)
• Defence

3. Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar 

• Textiles (Independent Charge)

4. Shri Bandaru Dattatreya 

• Labour and Employment (Independent Charge)

5. Shri Rajiv Pratap Rudy 

• Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (Independent Charge)
• Parliamentary Affairs

6. Shri Shripad Yesso Naik 

• AAYUSH (Independent Charge)
• Health & Family Welfare

7. Shri Dharmendra Pradhan 

• Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)

8. Shri Sarbananda Sonowal 

• Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge)

9. Shri Prakash Javadekar 

• Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge)

10. Shri Piyush Goyal 

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

11. 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

12. Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman 

• Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge)

13. Dr. Mahesh Sharma 

• Culture (Independent Charge)
• Tourism (Independent Charge)
• Civil Aviation

The Ministers of State

1. Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

• Minority Affairs
• Parliamentary Affairs

2. Shri Ram Kripal Yadav 

• Drinking Water and Sanitation

3. Shri Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary 

• Home Affairs

4. Shri Sanwar Lal Jat 

• Water Resources
• River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation

5. Shri Mohanbhai Kalyanjibhai Kundariya 

• Agriculture

6. Shri Giriraj Singh 

• Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises

7, Shri Hansraj Gangaram Ahir 

• Chemicals & Fertilizers

8. Shri G. M. Siddeshwara 

• Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

9. Shri Manoj Sinha 

• Railways

10. Shri Nihalchand 

• Panchayati Raj

11. Shri Upendra Kushwaha 

• Human Resources Development

12. Shri Radhakrishnan P

• Road Transport & Highway
• Shipping

13. Shri Kiren Rijiju

• Home Affairs

14. Shri Krishan Pal 

• Social Justice & Empowerment

15.  Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan 

• Agriculture

16. Shri Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava 

• Tribal Affairs

17. Shri Raosaheb Dadarao Danve 

• Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

18. Shri Vishnu Deo Sai

•  Mines
• Steel

19. Shri Sudarshan Bhagat 

• Rural Development

20.  Prof. (Dr.) Ram Shankar Katheria 

• Human Resource Development

21. Shri Y. S. Chowdary 

• Science and Technology
• Earth Science

22.  Shri Jayant Sinha 

• Finance

23. Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore 

• Information & Broadcasting

24.  Shri Babul Supria (Babul Supriyo) Baral 

• Urban Development
• Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation

25. Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti 

• Food Processing Industries

26. Shri Vijay Sampla

•  Social Justice & Empowerment

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