New Delhi: The first job of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he took office on Tuesday was allocating portfolios:
The following is the list of the Council of Ministers:
Rajnath Singh: Home Affairs
Arun Jaitley:Â Finance, Corporate Affairs and Defence
Sushma Swaraj: External Affairs; Overseas Indian Affairs
Nitin Gadkari:Â Unified Transport
Smriti Irani: HRD
Ravi Shankar Prasad: Law & Justice, Communication and IT
Radha Mohan Singh: Agriculture
Maneka Gandhi: Woman and Child development
Ashok Gajapathi Raju: Â Civil Aviation
DV Sadananda gowda: Railways
Ananth Kumar: Chemicals and Fertilizers
Harsh Vardhan: Health and Family welfare
Ram Vilas Paswan: Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
Venkaiah Naidu: Urban Development, Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation, and Parliamentary Affairs
Harsimrat Kaur Badal: Food Processing Industries
Uma Bharti: Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
Gopinathrao Munde: Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation
Anant Geete: Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
Jual Oram: Tribal Affairs
Najma Heptullah: Minority Affairs
Thaawar Chand Gehlot: Social Justice and Empowerment
Narendra Singh Tomar: Mines, Steel, and Labour & Employment
Kalraj Mishra: Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
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Ministers of State with Independent Charge- 10
General VK Singh: Development of North Eastern Region (Independent Charge); External Affairs; Overseas Indian Affairs
Santosh Gangwar: Textiles (Independent Charge); Parliamentary Affairs; Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
Shripad Naik: MoS 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: I&B, Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge); Parliamentary Affairs
Piyush Goel: Power; Coal; New & Renewable Energy (All Independent Charge)
Jitendra Singh: Science and Technology (Independent Charge); Earth Sciences (Independent Charge); PMO; Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
Nirmala Sitharaman: Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge); Finance; Corporate Affairs
Inderjit Rao: Planning (Independent Charge); Statistics and Programme Implementation (Independent Charge); Defence
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Ministers of State – 11
GM Siddeshwara: Civil Aviation
Manoj Sinha: Railways
Upendra Kushwaha: Rural Development; Panchayati Raj; Drinking Water and Sanitation
Radhakrishnan P: Heavy Industries; Public Enterprises
Kiren Rijiju: Home Affairs
Krishan Pal Gurjar: Road Transport and Highways; Ministry of Shipping
Sanjeev Kumar Balyan: Agriculture; Food Processing Industries
Mansukhbhai Vasava: Tribal Affairs
Raosaheb Danwe: Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
Vishnu Deo Sai: Mines; Steel; Labour and Employment
Sudarshan Bhagat: Social Justice and Empowerment