Modi Allocates Portfolios To Ministers

Prime Minister Narendra Modi allocated portfolios to his ministers, giving the Ministry of Finance and Defence to Arun Jaitley. Sushma Swaraj was allocated the Ministry of External Affairs while Rajnath Singh got Home Ministry. Here is the list of ministers in Modi’s government:

Cabinet Ministers
Rajnath Singh — Home Ministry
Sushma Swaraj — Ministry of External Affairs
Ananth Kumar — Parliamentary Affairs and additional charge of chemicals and fertilisers
Nitin Gadkari — Surface Transport and Shipping Ministry
Sadanand Gowda — Ministry of Railways
Venkaiah Naidu — Urban Development Ministry and Parliamentary Affairs
Ravi Shankar Prasad — Telecom Ministry, Law and Justice Ministry
Maneka Gandhi — Women and Child Development Ministry
Najma Heptulla — Ministry of Minorities
Smriti Irani - Human Resource Development Ministry
Radha Mohan Singh — Agriculture Ministry
Nirmala Sitharaman — Minister of State for Commerce
Prakash Javadekar — Minister of State for Information & Broadcasting
Ram Vilas Paswan — Food and Civil Supplies Ministry
Arun Jaitley — Finance Ministry and additional charge of the Defence Ministry
Uma Bharati —Minister of Water Resources and Ganga
Jual Oram —Minister of Tribal Affairs

Ministers of State (Independent Charge)
General VK 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 Gangwar – Textiles (Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs, Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
Shripad 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)
Dr Jitendra Singh – Science and Technology (Independent Charge), Earth Sciences (Independent Charge), Prime Minister Office, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space
Nirmala Sitharaman – Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge), Finance, Corporate Affairs

Ministers of State
GM Siddeshwara – Civil Aviation
Manoj Sinha – Railways
Nihalchand – Chemicals and Fertilisers
Upendra Kushwaha - Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation
Pon Radhakrishnan – Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
Kiren Rijiju – Home Affairs
Krishan Pal – Road Transport and Highways, Shipping
Sanjeev Balyan – Agriculture, Food Processing Industries
Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava – Tribal Affairs
Raosaheb Danve – Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
Vishnu Deo Sai – Mines, Steel, Labour and Employment
Sudarshan Bhagat – Social Justice and Empowerment