Who are called the cabinet ministers?

A cabinet is a group of powerful state representatives, usually made up of the most powerful members of the executive branch. Cabinet ministers or secretaries are the typical titles for members of a cabinet.

How many cabinet ministers are allowed in India?

No more than 15% of the total members of the House of the People may serve as ministers, including the prime minister, in the Council of Ministers.

Who is the cabinet Prime Minister of India?

Prime minister Narendra Modi is the Cabinet Prime Minister of India.

Who is the head of cabinet ministry?

The Prime Minister is directly responsible for the Cabinet Secretariat. The Cabinet Secretary, who serves as the ex-officio Chairman of the Civil Services Board, is the administrative head of the Secretariat.

Cabinet Ministers of India and List of Their Portfolios

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Cabinet Ministers of India

The Union Council of Ministers (Cabinet Ministers of India), which serves as the top executive body of the executive branch, is the Government of India’s main executive body. The leaders of each executive government ministry sit on it, which is presided over by the prime minister. The Cabinet Ministers of India 2023 currently has 29 members, including the prime minister, and is presided over by Narendra Modi, the current prime minister. The Indian Parliament has jurisdiction over the council or Cabinet Ministers of India.

In India, a smaller executive body known as the Union Cabinet, which is a subset of the Union Council of Ministers (Cabinet Ministers of India) and holds significant portfolios and ministries of the government, is the ultimate decision-making body.

Ranking of Cabinet Ministers of India

The council of ministers (Cabinet Ministers of India) is divided into the following five groups, listed in decreasing order of rank:

Prime Minister: Head of the Indian government’s executive branch.
If there is one, the deputy prime minister serves as the senior cabinet minister or as acting prime minister.
Cabinet Minister: A cabinet member who oversees a ministry.
Junior minister without answering to a cabinet minister is a minister of state (independent charge).
A deputy minister who reports to a cabinet minister and is typically given a specific role within that ministry is known as a minister of state (MoS).

Appointment and Removal of Cabinet Ministers of India

According to Article 75, the President, on the recommendation of the Prime Minister, appoints ministers who serve at the leisure of the president. Evidence suggests that an MP’s electoral success increases the likelihood of being given a cabinet position at least since the turn of the millennium.

Following are the conditions under which the Cabinet Ministers of India can be removed:

If a Cabinet minister dies
Upon the Prime Minister’s resignation, death, or self-resignation.
After being fired by the President for a minister’s violations of Article 75 (2).
After receiving a directive from the judiciary for breaking the law.
When a person loses their eligibility to serve in parliament.
The Prime Minister and the whole Council of Ministers must resign in accordance with Article 75’s “Collective Responsibility” clause if a Vote of No Confidence is approved by the Lower House (Lok Sabha) of the Indian Parliament.

List of Cabinet Ministers of India 2023

Following are the Cabinet Ministers with their respective Portfolios and their Political Party:

Portfolio of Minister	Name of Minister	Party
Prime Minister Minister of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Department of Atomic Energy Department of Space	Narendra Modi	BJP
Minister of Defence	Rajnath Singh	BJP
Minister of Home Affairs Minister of Co-operation	Amit Shah	BJP
Minister of Finance Minister of Corporate Affairs	Nirmala Sitharaman	BJP
Minister of Road Transport and Highways	Nitin Gadkari	BJP
Minister of External Affairs	Subrahmanyam Jaishankar	BJP
Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare	Narendra Singh Tomar	BJP
Minister of Education Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship	Dharmendra Pradhan	BJP
Minister of Commerce and Industry Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Minister of Textiles	Piyush Goyal	BJP
Minister of Women and Child Development Minister of Minority Affairs	Smriti Zubin Irani	BJP
Minister of Tribal Affairs	Arjun Munda	BJP
Minister of Law and Justice	Kiren Rijiju	BJP
Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment	Dr. Virendra Kumar	BJP
Minister of Health and Family Welfare Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers	Mansukh L. Mandaviya	BJP
Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister of Labour and Employment	Bhupender Yadav	BJP
Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises	Mahendra Nath Pandey	BJP
Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Minister of Coal Minister of Mines	Pralhad Joshi	BJP
Minister of Jal Shakti	Gajendra Singh Shekhawat	BJP
Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises	Narayan Tatu Rane	BJP
Minister of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries	Parshottam Rupala	BJP
Minister of Railways Minister of Communications Minister of Electronics and Information Technology	Ashwini Vaishnaw	BJP
Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways Minister of AYUSH	Sarbananda Sonowal	BJP
Minister of Rural Development Minister of Panchayati Raj	Giriraj Singh	BJP
Minister of Civil Aviation Minister of Steel	Jyotiraditya Scindia	BJP
Minister of Food Processing Industries	Pashupati Kumar Paras	LJP
Minister of Power Minister of New and Renewable Energy	Raj Kumar Singh	BJP
Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs	Hardeep Singh Puri	BJP
Minister of Culture Minister of Tourism Minister of Development of North Eastern Region	G. Kishan Reddy	BJP
Minister of Information and Broadcasting Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports	Anurag Thakur	BJP

Cabinet Ministers of India: Minister of State

Minister of State (Independent Charge)

Following are the Minister of State (independent Charge) with their respective Portfolios:

Portfolio of Minister	Name of Minister	Party
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Statistics and Programme Implementation Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Planning Minister of State in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs	Rao Inderjit Singh	BJP
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Ministry of Science and Technology Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Ministry of Earth Sciences 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	Jitendra Singh	BJP

Minister of State

Following are the Minister of State with their respective Portfolios:

Portfolio of Minister	Name of Minister	Party
Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways	Darshana Jardosh	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways	Raosaheb Danve	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Textiles	Darshana Jardosh	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Steel	Faggan Singh Kulaste	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Development	Faggan Singh Kulaste	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Development	Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare	Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs	V. Muraleedharan	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs	Arjun Ram Meghwal	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs	V. Muraleedharan	BJP
	Meenakshi Lekhi	BJP
	Dr. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Culture	Arjun Ram Meghwal	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Culture	Meenakshi Lekhi	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways Minister of State in the Ministty of Civil Aviation	General (Retd.) V. K. Singh	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment	Ramdas Athawale	RPI(A)
	Abbaiah Narayanaswamy	BJP
	Pratima Bhoumik	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distributionu	Ashwini Kumar Choubey	BJP
	Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change	Ashwini Kumar Choubey	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs	Nityanand Rai Yadav	BJP
	Ajay Kumar Mishra	BJP
	Nisith Pramanik	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare	Shobha Karandlaje	BJP
	Kailash Choudhary	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries	Dr. L. Murugan	BJP
	Sanjeev Kumar Balyan	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting	Dr. L. Murugan	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Education	Annpurna Devi Yadav	BJP
	Dr. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh	BJP
	Dr. Subhas Sarkar	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs	Renuka Singh	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs	Bishweswar Tudu	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry	Som Parkash	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry	Anupriya Patel	AD(S)
Minister of State in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister of State in the Ministry of Labour and Employment	Rameswar Teli	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Women and Child Development Minister of State in the Ministry of AYUSH	Dr. Mahendra Munjapara	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance	Dr. Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance	Pankaj Choudhary	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Law and Justice	S. P. Singh Baghel	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Tourism	Ajay Bhatt	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Tourism	Shripad Naik	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence	Ajay Bhatt	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region Minister of State in the Ministry of Co-operation	B. L. Verma	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy Minister of State in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers	Bhagwanth Khuba	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises	Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Jal Shakti	Bishweswar Tudu	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Jal Shakti	Prahlad Singh Patel	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Coal Minister of State in the Ministry of Mines	Raosaheb Danve	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Communications	Devusinh Jesingbhai Chauhan	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Minority Affairs	John Barla	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Panchayati Raj	Kapil Patil	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs	Kaushal Kishore	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Power Minister of State in the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises	Krishan Pal	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Food Processing Industries	Prahlad Singh Patel	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Minister of State in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology	Rajeev Chandrasekhar	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways	Shripad Naik	BJP
	Shantanu Thakur	BJP
Minister of State in the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports	Nisith Pramanik	BJP

Cabinet Ministers of India: Council of Ministers in state governments

According to Articles 163, 164, and 167, every state in India is run by a council of ministers (Cabinet Ministers of India) that follows similar norms and procedures to the union council of ministers (c).

The Supreme Court of India first exercised its authority under Article 142 of the Indian Constitution in March 2020 to remove a minister serving the state of Manipur.