Narendra Modi Cabinet reshuffle: Full list

With this second expansion of the NDA government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi the total number of ministers in the Union Council went up to 83. However, as per Constitutional provisions mentioned in Article 75, the total number cannot exceed 82 (i.e.

15% of the total number of members of Lok Sabha) and it may require the dropping of some ministers to keep the number within the prescribed cap. This provision of constitutional cap for total number of Ministers in the Union Council was added by the 91st Constitutional Amendment Act, 2003.

Portfolio Changes

Prakash Javdekar: Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change to HRD Minister

• Venkaiah Naidu: Additional charge of Information and Broadcast Ministry

• Ravi Shankar Prasad: Communications and Information Technology Minister to Law Minister

• DV Sadananda Gowda: Law Minister to Statistics and Programme Implementation Minister

• Narendra Singh Tomar: Additional charge of Rural Development Minister

• Anant Kumar: Parliamentary Affairs Minister and Chemicals and Fertilisers Minister

• Faggan Singh Kulaste: Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare

• Jayant Sinha: Minister of State for Finance to Civil Aviation Minister

• Anil Madhav Dave: Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change

New Inductees

• Faggan Singh Kulaste - Health and Family Welfare

• Surendrajeet Singh Ahluwalia - Agriculture and Farmers Welfare; Parliamentary Affairs

• Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi - Drinking Water and Sanitation

• Vijay Goel - Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge); Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation

• Ramdas Athawale - Social justice and empowerment

• Rajen Gohain - Railways

• Anil Madhav Dave - Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge)

• Parshottam Rupala - Agriculture and farmers welfare; panchayati raj

• MJ Akbar - External affairs

• Arjun Ram Meghwal - Finance; corporate affairs

• Jasvantsinh Sumanbhai Bhabhor - Tribal affairs

• Dr Mahendra Nath Pandey - HRD

• Ajay Tamta - Textiles

• Krishna Raj - Women and child development

• Mansukh L Mandaviya - Road transport and highways, Shipping; chemicals and fertilizers

• Anupriya Singh Patel - Health and family welfare

• CR Chaudhary - Consumer affairs, food and public distribution

• PP Chaudhary - Law and justice; electronics and information technology

• Subhash Ramrao Bhamre - Defence

Complete List

Prime Minister

• Narendra Modi - Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Department of Atomic energy; Department of Space; and all important policy issues, and all other portfolios not allocated to any Minister

Cabinet ministers

• Rajnath Singh - Home affairs

• Sushma Swaraj - External affairs

• Arun Jaitley – Finance and Corporate Affairs

• Venkaiah Naidu - Urban Development and Housing; Urban Poverty Alleviation; Information and Broadcasting

• Nitin Jairam Gadkari - Road Transport and Highways; Shipping

• Manohar Parrikar - Defence

• Suresh Prabhu - Railways

• DV Sadananda Gowda - Statistics and Programme Implementation

• Uma Bharati - Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation

• Najma A Heptulla - Minority Affairs

• Ramvilas Paswan - Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

• Kalraj Mishra - Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

• Maneka Sanjay Gandhi - Women and Child Development

• Ananth Kumar - Chemicals and Fertilizers; Parliamentary Affairs

• Ravi Shankar Prasad - Law and Justice; Electronics and Information Technology

• Jagat Prakash Nadda - Health and Family Welfare

• Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati - Civil Aviation

• Anant Geete - Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

• Harsimrat Kaur Badal - Food Processing Industries

• Narendra Singh Tomar - Rural Development; Panchayati Raj; Drinking Water and Sanitation

• Chaudhary Birender Singh - Steel

• Jual Oram - Tribal Affairs

• Radha Mohan Singh - Agriculture and Farmers Welfare

• Thaawar Chand Gehlot - Social Justice and Empowerment

• Smriti Zubin Irani - Textiles

• Harsh Vardhan - Science and Technology; Earth sciences

• Prakash Javadekar - Human Resource Development

Ministers of state

• Rao Inderjit Singh - Planning (Independent Charge); Urban Development; Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation

• Bandaru Dattatreya - Labour and Employment (Independent Charge)

• Rajiv Pratap Rudy - Skill development and Entrepreneurship (Independent Charge)

• Vijay Goel - Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge); Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation

• Shripad Yesso Naik - AAYUSH (Independent Charge)

• Dharmendra Pradhan - Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)

• Piyush Goyal - Power (Independent Charge); Coal (Independent Charge); New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge); Mines (Independent Charge)

• Jitendra Singh - Development of northeastern region (Independent Charge); Prime Minister’s Office; Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy; Department of Space

• Nirmala Sitharaman - Commerce and industry (Independent Charge)

• Mahesh Sharma - Culture (Independent Charge); Tourism (Independent Charge)

• Manoj Sinha - Communications (Independent Charge); Railways

• Anil Madhav Dave - Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge)

• VK Singh - External affairs

• Santosh Kumar Gangwar - Finance

• Faggan Singh Kulaste - Health and family welfare

• Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi - Minority Affairs; Parliamentary Affairs

• SS Ahluwalia - Agriculture and Farmers Welfare; Parliamentary Affairs

• Ramdas Athawale - Social Justice and Empowerment

• Ram Kripal Yadav - Rural Development

• Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary - Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

• Giriraj Singh - Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

• Hansraj Gangaram Ahir - Home Affairs

• GM Siddeshwara - Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

• Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi - Drinking Water and Sanitation

• Rajen Gohain - Railways

• Parshottam Rupala - Agriculture and Farmers Welfare; Panchayati Raj

• MJ Akbar - External Affairs

• Upendra Kushwaha - Human Resources Development

• Radhakrishnan P - Road Transport and Highways; Shipping

• Kiren Rijiju - Home Affairs

• Krishan Pal - Social Justice and Empowerment

• Jasvantsinh Sumanbhai Bhabhor - Tribal Affairs

• Sanjeev Kumar Balyan - Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation

• Vishnu Deo Sai - Steel

• Sudarshan Bhagat - Agriculture and Farmers Welfare

• YS Chowdary - Science and Technology; Earth Science

• Jayant Sinha - Civil Aviation

• Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore - Information and Broadcasting

• Babul Supriyo - Urban Development Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation

• Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti - Food Processing Industries

• Vijay Sampla - Social Justice and Empowerment

• Arjun Ram Meghwal – Finance; Corporate Affairs

• Mahendra Nath Pandey - HRD

• Ajay Tamta - Textiles

• Krishna Raj - Women and Child Development

• Mansukh L Mandaviya - Road transport and Highways, Shipping; Chemicals and Fertilizers

• Anupriya Patel - Health and Family Welfare

• CR Chaudhary - Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

• PP Chaudhary - Law and Justice; Electronics and Information Technology

• Subhash Ramrao Bhamre - Defence

Source: jagaran josh