31 May 2019
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Union Cabinet Ministers Portfolio 2019 : Check Complete List Here

A day after the incoming Union Council of Ministers was sworn in, the portfolios of ministers were announced. Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier sent the list of portfolios for his Council of Ministers to President Ram Nath Kovind, after which the same was unveiled.

Modi took oath as the PM for a second consecutive term. 57 other members of the Council of Ministers, including Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari, and Sadananda Gowda, also took the oath. A total of 24 Cabinet Ministers took oath at the forecourt of the Rashtrapati Bhavan, followed by nine Ministers of State (Independent Charge) and 24 Ministers of State.

Here's the full list of the Union Council of Ministers and their portfolios, under the Modi Government 2.0.

Narendra Modi - 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

Cabinet Ministers

‏Rajnath Singh - Defence
Amit Shah - Home Affairs
Nirmala Sitharaman - Finance; Corporate Affairs
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar - External Affairs
Nitin Gadkari - Road Transport and Highways; Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
DV Sadananda Gowda - Chemical and Fertilizers
Ram Vilas Paswan - Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
Narendra Singh Tomar - Agriculture and Farmers Welfare; Rural Development; Panchayati Raj
Ravi Shankar Prasad - Law and Justice; Communications; Electronics and Information Technology
Harsimrat Kaur Badal - Food Processing Industries
Thawarchand Gehlot - Social Justice and Empowerment
Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank - Human Resource Development
Arjun Munda - Tribal Affairs
Smriti Irani - Women and Child Development; Textiles
Dr. Harsh Vardhan - Health and Family Welfare; Science and Technology; Earth Sciences
Prakash Javdekar - Environment, Forest and Climate Change; Information and Broadcasting
Piyush Goyal - Railways; Commerce and Industries
Dharmendra Pradhan - Petroleum and Natural Gas; Steel
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi - Minority Affairs
Prahlad Joshi - Parliamentary Affairs; Coal; Mines
Mahendra Nath Pandey - Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
Arvind Sawant - Heavy Industries and Public Enterprise
Giriraj Singh - Animal Husbandry, Dairying, and Fisheries
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat - Jal Shakti

Ministers of State (Independent Charge)

Santosh Kumar Gangwar - Labour and Employment
Rao Inderjit Singh - Statistics and Programme Implementation; Planning
Shripad Yesso Naik - Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH); MoS Defence
Dr. Jitendra Singh - Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region; MoS PMO; Personnel, Public Grievances, and Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy; Department of Space
Kiren Rijiju - Youth Affairs and Sports; MoS Minority Affairs
Prahalad Singh Patel - Culture; Tourism
Raj Kumar Singh - Power; New and Renewable Energy; MoS Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
Hardeep Singh Puri - Housing and Urban Affairs; Civil Aviation; MoS Commerce and Industry
Mansukh L Mandaviya - Shipping; MoS Chemicals and Fertilizers

Ministers of State

Faggansingh Kulaste- Steel
Ashwini Kumar Choubey - Health and Family Welfare
Arjun Ram Meghwal - Parliamentary Affairs; Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
General (Retd) VK Singh - Road Transport and Highways
Krishan Pal - Social Justice and Empowerment
Danve Raosaheb Dadarao - Consumer Affairs, Food, and Public Distribution
G Kishan Reddy - Home Affairs
Parshottam Rupala - Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
Ramdas Athawale - Social Justice and Empowerment
Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti - Rural Development
Babul Supriyo - Environment, Forest and Climate Change
Sanjeev Kumar Balyan - Animal Husbandry, Dairying, and Fisheries
Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao - Human Resource Development; Communications; Electronics and Information Technology
Anurag Singh Thakur - Finance; Corporate Affairs
Angadi Suresh Channabasappa - Railways
Nityanand Rai - Home Affairs
Rattan Lal Kataria - Jal Shakti; Social Justice and Empowerment
V Muraleedharan - External Affairs; Parliamentary Affairs
Renuka Singh Saruta - Tribal Affairs
Som Parkash - Commerce and Industry
Rameswar Teli - Food Processing Industries
Pratap Chandra Sarangi - Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises; Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries
Kailash Choudhary - Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
Debasree Chaudhuri - Women and Child Development

Source- Press Information Bureau (PIB)

31 May 2019 ------------------------------- Union Cabinet Ministers Portfolio 2019 : Check Complete List Here

31 May 2019
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Union Cabinet Ministers Portfolio 2019 : Check Complete List Here

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