Prime Minister Narendra Modi after expanding the >Council of Ministers with 19 new members , also reshuffled some portfolios in his Cabinet on Tuesday. Prakash Javadekar, who was earlier promoted to Cabinet rank, was given the HRD Ministry. He had been the Minister of State (Independent charge) for Environment and Forests.
Smriti Irani has been shifted from HRD Ministry to Textiles Ministry.
Other than that, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has shed Information and Broadcasting (I&B) portfolio and Venkaiah Naidu has been given additional charge of I&B.
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Besides Mr. Javadekar, 19 new Ministers (17 new faces and two old hands) took oath as Ministers of State. The Council of Ministers now has 77 members. The previous strength of the government was 63 (after Gopinath Munde died and Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and BJP Maharashta chief Rao Saheb Danve quit). Five Ministers of State tendered their resignation on Tuesday, leaving 58 Ministers in the earlier batch.
The total strength of the Union Council of Ministers has been capped at 82.
Here is the list of all ministers:
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Shri Raj Nath Singh - Home Affairs | Smt. Sushma Swaraj - External Affairs |
Shri Arun Jaitley Finance - Corporate Affairs | Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu - Urban Development Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation Information & Broadcasting |
Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari - Road Transport and Highways Shipping | Shri Manohar Parrikar - Defence |
Shri Suresh Prabhu - Railways | Shri D. V. Sadananda Gowda - Statistics & Programme Implementation |
Sushri Uma Bharati - Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation | Dr. Najma A. - Heptulla Minority Affairs |
Shri Ramvilas Paswan - Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution | Shri Kalraj Mishra - Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises |
Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi - Women & Child Development | Shri Ananthkumar - Chemicals & Fertilizers Parliamentary Affairs |
Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad - Law & Justice Electronics & Information Technology | Shri Jagat Prakash Nadda - Health & Family Welfare |
Shri Ashok Gajapathi - Raju Pusapati Civil Aviation | Anant Geete - Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises |
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Among the Minister of States, former journalist and author M.J. Akbar gets MoS External Affairs whereas, Anupriya Patel, an OBC Lok Sabha member from Uttar Pradesh, becomes Minister of State for Health & Family Welfare. BJP MP S.S. Ahluwalia gets Agriculture and Farmers welfare.
Here is the full list of ministers:
Shri Rao Inderjit Singh Planning (Independent Charge) Urban Development Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation
Shri Bandaru Dattatreya Labour & Employment (Independent Charge)
Shri Rajiv Pratap Rudy Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (Independent Charge)
Shri Vijay Goel Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge) Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation
Shri Shripad Yesso Naik AAYUSH (Independent Charge)
Shri Dharmendra Pradhan Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)
Shri 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
Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge)
Dr. Mahesh Sharma Culture (Independent Charge) Tourism (Independent Charge)
Shri Manoj Sinha Communications (Independent Charge) Railways
Shri Anil Madhav Dave Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge)
General V. K. Singh External Affairs
Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar Finance
Shri Faggan Singh Kulaste Health & Family Welfare
Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Minority Affairs Parliamentary Affairs
Shri Ramdas Athawale Social Justice & Empowerment
Shri Ram Kripal Yadav Rural Development
Shri Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
Shri Giriraj Singh Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
Shri Hansraj Gangaram Ahir Home Affairs
Shri G. M. Siddeshwara Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises
Shri Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi Drinking Water & Sanitation
Shri Rajen Gohain Railways
Shri Parshottam Rupala Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Panchayati Raj
Shri Upendra Kushwaha, Human Resources Development
Shri Radhakrishnan P Road Transport & Highways Shipping
Shri Kiren Rijiju Home Affairs
Shri Krishan Pal Social Justice & Empowerment
Shri Jasvantsinh Sumanbhai Bhabhor Tribal Affairs
Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation
Shri Vishnu Deo Sai Steel
Shri Sudarshan Bhagat Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
Shri Y.S. Chowdhary, Science & Technology
Shri Jayant Sinha Civil Aviation
Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore Information & Broadcasting
Shri Babul Supriyo Urban Development Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation
Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti Food Processing Industries
Shri Vijay Sampla Social Justice & Empowerment
Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal Finance Corporate Affairs
Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey Human Resource Development
Shri Ajay Tamta Textiles
Smt. Krishna Raj Women & Child Development
Shri Mansukh L. Mandaviya Road Transport & Highways, Shipping, Chemicals & Fertilizers
Smt. Anupriya Patel Health & Family Welfare
Shri C. R. Chaudhary Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution
Shri P. P. Chaudhary Law & Justice Electronics & Information Technology
Dr. Subhash Ramrao Bhamre, Defence