List of Cabinet Ministes

LIST OF CABINET MINISTERS (AS ON 24/05/2018)

 

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Important Points regarding Union Council of Ministers

• Union Council of Ministers exercises the executive powers.
• It is composed of all the Union Ministers – Cabinet Ministers, Ministers of State and Deputy Ministers.
• Cabinet Ministers are those who are members of the Cabinet and are real policy-makers of the Council.

Cabinet Ministers

Portfolio	Minister		Took office	Left office	Party
Prime Minister Ministry of 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.		Narendra Modi	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of Defence		Rajnath Singh	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of Home Affairs		Amit Shah	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of Finance Minister of Corporate Affairs		Nirmala Sitharaman	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of External Affairs		Subrahmanyam Jaishankar	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of Road Transport and Highways Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises		Nitin Gadkari	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of Textiles Minister of Women and Child Development		Smriti Irani	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of Railways Minister of Commerce and Industry		Piyush Goyal	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers		D. V. Sadananda Gowda	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of Tribal Affairs		Arjun Munda	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of Food Processing Industries		Harsimrat Kaur Badal	30 May 2019	Incumbent	SAD
Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution		Ram Vilas Paswan	30 May 2019	Incumbent	LJP
Minister of Law and Justice Minister of Communications Minister of Electronics and Information Technology		Ravi Shankar Prasad	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister of Steel		Dharmendra Pradhan	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Minister of Rural Developement Minister of Panchayati Raj		Narendra Singh Tomar	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment		Thawar Chand Gehlot	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of Human Resource Development		Ramesh Pokhriyal	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of Health and Family Welfare Minister of Science and TechnologyMinister of Earth Sciences		Harsh Vardhan	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises		Prakash Javdekar	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of Minority Affairs		Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship		Mahendra Nath Pandey	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Minister of Coal Minister of Mines		Pralhad Joshi	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of Jal Shakti		Gajendra Singh Shekhawat	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries		Giriraj Singh	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises		Arvind Sawant	30 May 2019	11 November 2019	SS

Ministers of State (Independent Charge)

Portfolio	Minister		Took office	Left office	Party
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Labour and Employment		Santosh Kumar Gangwar	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Statistics and Programme Implementation Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Planning[disambiguation needed]		Rao Inderjit Singh	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH) Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence.		Shripad Yesso Naik	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Development of North Eastern Region Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Minister of State in the Department of Atomic Energy Minister of State in the Department of Space		Dr. Jitendra Singh	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Youth Affairs and Sports Minister of State of Minority Affairs		Kiren Rijiju	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Culture Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Tourism		Prahlad Singh Patel	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Power Minister of State (Independent Charge) of New and Renewable Energy Minister of State of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship		Raj Kumar Singh	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Housing and Urban Affairs Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Civil Aviation Minister of State of Commerce and Industry		Hardeep Singh Puri	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Shipping Minister of State of Chemicals and Fertilizers		Mansukh L. Mandaviya	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP

Ministers of State

Portfolio	Minister		Took office	Left office	Party
Minister of State of Steel		Faggan Singh Kulaste	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State of Health and Family Welfare		Ashwini Kumar Choubey	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State of Parliamentary Affairs Minister of State of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises		Arjun Ram Meghwal	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State of Road Transport and Highways		V. K. Singh	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State of Social Justice and Empowerment		Krishan Pal Gurjar	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution		Raosaheb Danve	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State of Home Affairs		G. Kishan Reddy	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare		Parshottam Rupala	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State of Social Justice and Empowerment		Ramdas Athawale	30 May 2019	Incumbent	RPI(A)
Minister of State of Rural Development		Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State of Environment, Forest and Climate Change		Babul Supriyo	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries		Sanjeev Kumar Balyan	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State of Human Resource Development Minister of State of Communications Minister of State of Electronics and Information Technology		Sanjay Shamrao Dhotre	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State of Finance Minister of State of Corporate Affairs		Anurag Thakur	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State of Railways		Suresh Angadi	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State of Home Affairs		Nityanand Rai	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State of Jal Shakti Minister of State of Social Justice and Empowerment		Rattan Lal Kataria	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State of External Affairs Minister of State of Parliamentary Affairs		V. Muraleedharan	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State of Tribal Affairs		Renuka Singh	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State of Commerce and Industry		Som Parkash	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State of Food Processing Industries		Rameswar Teli	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Minister of State of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries		Pratap Chandra Sarangi	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare		Kailash Choudhary	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP
Minister of State of Women and Child Development		Debasree Chaudhuri	30 May 2019	Incumbent	BJP