The allotment of the Cabinet ministers in the new NDA government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been announced.
The announcement of portfolios allocated of the ministers were made soon after the first Cabinet meeting of Modi 3.0 on June 10 at the prime minister’s official residence in New Delhi.
Rajnath Singh retained the Home Ministry, while will continue to be the Home Minister.
Who gets what in Modi 3.0 Cabinet?
Name Ministry portfolio
Narendra Modi Prime Minister and also in-charge of 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
Rajnath Singh Minister of Defence
Amit Shah Minister of Home Affairs, Minister of Cooperation
Nitin Gadkari Minister of Road Transport & Highways
JP Nadda Minister of Health & Family Welfare; Minister of Chemicals & Fertilisers.
Shivraj Singh Chouhan Minister of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare; Minister of Rural Development
Nirmala Sitharaman Minister of Finance; Minister of Corporate Affairs
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar Minister of External Affairs
Manohar Lal Khattar Minister of Housing & Urban Affairs; Minister of Power
HD Kumaraswamy Minister of Heavy Industries; Minister of Steel
Piyush Goyal Minister of Commerce and Industry
Dharmendra Pradhan Minister of Education
Jitan Ram Manjhi Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
Rajiv Ranjan (Lalan) Singh Minister of Panchayati Raj; Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying
Sarbananda Sonowal Minister of Ports, Shipping & Waterways
Virendra Kumar Minister of Social Justice & Empowerment
Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu Minister of Civil Aviation
Pralhad Joshi Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution; Minister of New & Renewable Energy
Jual Oram Minister of Tribal Affairs
Giriraj Singh Minister of Textiles
Ashwini Vaishnaw Minister of Railways; Minister of Information & Broadcasting; Minister of Electronics & Information Technology
Jyotiraditya Scindia Minister of Communications; Minister of Development of North Eastern Region
Bhupendra Yadav Minister of Environment, Forest & Climate Change
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat Minister of Culture; Minister of Tourism
Annapurna Devi Minister of Women and Child Development
Kiren Rijiju Minister of Parliamentary Affairs; Minister of Minority Affairs
Mansukh Mandaviya Minister of Labour & Employment; Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports
Hardeep Singh Puri Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas
GK Reddy Minister of Coal; Minister of Mines
Chirag Paswan Minister of Food Processing Industries
CR Patil Minister of Jal Shakti
Ministers of State (MoS) with Independent Charge
Rao Inderjit Singh MoS (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation; MoS (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Planning; MoS in the Ministry of Culture
Jitendra Singh MoS (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Science and Technology; MoS (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Earth Sciences; MoS in the Prime Minister’s Office; MoS in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions; MoS in the Department of Atomic Energy; MoS in the Department of Space
Arjun Ram Meghwal MoS (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Law and Justice; MoS in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs
Jadhav Prataprao Ganpatrao MoS (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Ayush; MoS in the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
Jayant Chaudhary MoS (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship; MoS in the Ministry of Education
Ministers of State (MoS)
Jitin Prasada MoS in the Ministry of Commerce & Industry; MoS in the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology
Shripad Naik MoS in the Ministry of Power; Minister of State in the Ministry of New & Renewable Energy
Pankaj Chaudhary MoS in the Ministry of Finance
Krishan Pal MoS in the Ministry of Cooperation
Ramdas Athawale MoS in the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment
Ramnath Thakur MoS in the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare
Nityanand Rai MoS in the Ministry of Home Affairs
Anupriya Patel MoS in the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare; Minister of State in the Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilisers
V Somanna MoS in the Ministry of Jal Shakti; MoS in the Ministry of Railways
Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani MoS in the Ministry of Rural Development; MoS in the Ministry of Communications
SP Singh Baghel MoS in the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying; MoS in the Ministry of Panchayati Raj
Shobha Karandlaje MoS in the Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises; MoS in the Ministry of Labour & Employment
Kirti Vardhan Singh MoS in the Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change; MoS in the Ministry of External Affairs
BL Verma MoS in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution; MoS in the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment
Shantanu Thakur MoS in the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways
Suresh Gopi MoS in the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas; MoS in the Ministry of Tourism
Dr L Murugan MoS in the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting; MoS in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs
Ajay Tamta MoS in the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways
Bandi Sanjay Kumar MoS in the Ministry of Home Affairs
Kamlesh Paswan MoS in the Ministry of Rural Development
Bhagirath Choudhary MoS in the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare
Satish Chandra Dubey MoS in the Ministry of Coal; MoS in the Ministry of Mines
Sanjay Seth MoS in the Ministry of Defence
Ravneet Singh Bittu MoS in the Ministry of Food Processing Industries; MoS in the Ministry of Railways
Durgadas Uikey MoS in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs
Raksha Nikhil Khadse MoS in the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports
Sukanta Majumdar MoS in the Ministry of Education; MoS in the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region
Savitri Thakur MoS in the Ministry of Women & Child Development
Tokhan Sahu MoS in the Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs
Raj Bhushan Choudhary MoS in the Ministry of Jal Shakti
Bhupathi Raju Srinivasa Varma MoS in the Ministry of Heavy Industries; MoS in the Ministry of Steel
Harsh Malhotra MoS in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs; MoS in the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways
Nimuben Bambhaniam MoS in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution
Murlidhar Mohol MoS in the Ministry of Cooperation; MoS in the Ministry of Civil Aviation
George Kurian MoS in the Ministry of Minority Affairs; MoS in the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying
Pabitra Margherita MoS in the Ministry of External Affairs; Minister of State in the Ministry of Textiles
A total of 72 leaders – including the Prime Minister – took oath to be part of the Modi 3.0 ministry on Sunday, June 9.
The Modi 3.0 council of ministers include representation from all corners of the country. It has 27 ministers from Other Backward Classes (OBC), 10 from Scheduled Castes, five each from Scheduled Tribes and minorities.
A record 18 senior ministers will be heading ministries.
Also, there are 33 first-timers in the ranks.
The new Cabinet led by PM Modi includes 43 ministers who have served 3 terms or higher in Parliament, with 39 having been ministers before in Central government.
It also has multiple former chief ministers and 34 ministers who have served in state legislatures and 23 having worked as ministers in states.
BJP has won 240 seats in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, 32 short of a majority (272) in the 543-member House. With the help of allies in the National Democratic Alliance or NDA the number of seats notched up to 293, resulting to a formation of coaltion government at the Centre.
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