New Delhi: Soon after the long-awaited expansion of the Union Cabinet, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made major changes in the portfolios of Union Council of Ministers.
Smriti Irani has been transferred from the HRD Ministry to the Textiles Ministry. Prakash Javadekar, after his promotion as a Cabinet Minister, will be stepping in at Irani's place as the new Human Resource and Development Minister.
Irani has been made Textiles Minister, replacing incumbent Santosh Gangwar who will be now the Minister of State for Finance. Former bureaucrat Arjun Meghwal, who was inducted in today's expansion, has also been made Minister of State in the crucial ministry, headed by Arun Jaitley.
Jaitley, who also held additional charge of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry, divests it to Venkaiah Naidu. While Naidu will retains his existing Urban Development and Housing portfolio, he will be replaced as Parliamentary Affairs Minister by Ananth Kumar, who remains Chemical and Fertiliser Minister.
Jayant Sinha, who was junior minister in the finance ministry, now becomes Minister of State for Civil Aviation, while Minister of State for Railways Manoj Sinha will hold the Communications portfolio too as Minister of State (Independent Charge).
Here is the complete list of the Union Council of Ministers:
Prime Minister:
Narendra Modi - Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Space
Cabinet Ministers:
1. Rajnath Singh - Home Affairs
2. Sushma Swaraj - External Affairs
3. Arun Jaitley - Finance Corporate Affairs
4. Prakash Javadekar - Human Resource Development
5. Smriti Zubin Irani - Textiles
6. Manohar Parrikar - Defence
7. Suresh Prabhu - Railways
8. D. V. Sadananda Gowda - Statistics and Programme Implementation
9. Uma Bharati - Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
10. Nitin Jairam Gadkari - Road Transport and Highways Shipping
11. Shri Ramvilas Paswan - Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution
12. M Venkaiah Naidu - Urban Development Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation | Information & Broadcasting
13. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi - Women & Child Development
14. Ananth Kumar - Chemicals & Fertilizers | Parliamentary Affairs
15. Ravi Shankar Prasad - Law & Justice | Electronics & Information Technology
16. Jagat Prakash Nadda - Health & Family Welfare
17. Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati - Civil Aviation
18. Anant Geete - Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises
19. Harsimrat Kaur Badal - Food Processing Industries
20. Narendra Singh Tomar - Rural Development | Panchayati Raj | Drinking Water & Sanitation
21. Chaudhary Birender Singh - Steel
22. Jual Oram - Tribal Affairs
23. Radha Mohan Singh - Agriculture & Farmers Welfare
24. Thaawar Chand Gehlot - Social Justice and Empowerment
25. Kalraj Mishra - Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
26. Dr. Harsh Vardhan - Science & Technology | Earth Sciences
27. Najma A. Heptulla - Minority Affairs
Ministers of State:
28. Rao Inderjit Singh - Planning (Independent Charge) Urban Development Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation
29. Bandaru Dattatreya - Labour & Employment (Independent Charge)
30. Rajiv Pratap Rudy - Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (Independent Charge)
31. Vijay Goel - Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge) Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation
32. Shripad Yesso Naik - AAYUSH (Independent Charge)
33. Dharmendra Pradhan - Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)
34. Piyush Goyal - Power (Independent Charge) Coal (Independent Charge) New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge) Mines (Independent Charge)
35. Jitendra Singh - Development of North Eastern Region (Independent Charge), Prime Minister's Office, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space
36. Nirmala Sitharaman - Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge)
37. Mahesh Sharma - Culture (Independent Charge), Tourism (Independent Charge)
38. Manoj Sinha - Communications (Independent Charge), Railways
39. Anil Madhav Dave - Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge)
40. VK Singh - External Affairs
41. Santosh Kumar Gangwar - Finance
42. Faggan Singh Kulaste - Health & Family Welfare
43. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi - Minority Affairs, Parliamentary Affairs
44. SS Ahluwalia - Agriculture & Farmer Welfare, Parliamentary Affairs
45. Ramdas Athawale - Social Justice & Empowerment
46. Ram Kripal Yadav - Rural Development
47. Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary - Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
48. Giriraj Singh - Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
49. Hansraj Gangaram Ahir - Home Affairs
50. GM Siddeshwara - Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises
51. Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi - Drinking Water & Sanitation
52. Rajen Gohain - Railways
53. Parshottam Rupala - Agriculture & Farmer Welfare, Panchayati Raj
54. MJ Akbar - External Affairs
55. Upendra Kushwaha - Human Resources Development
56. Radhakrishnan P - Road Transport & Highways Shipping
57. Kiren Rijiju - Home Affairs
58. Krishan Pal - Social Justice & Empowerment
59. Jasvantsinh Sumanbhai Bhabhor - Tribal Affairs
60. Dr Sanjeev Kumar Balyan - Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation
61. Vishnu Deo Sai - Steel
62. Sudarshan Bhagat - Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
63. YS Chowdary - Science & Technology, Earth Science
64. Jayant Sinha - Civil Aviation
65. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore - Information & Broadcasting
66. Babul Supriyo - Urban Development, Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation
67. Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti - Food Processing Industries
68. Vijay Sampla - Social Justice & Empowerment
69. Arjun Ram Meghwal - Finance, Corporate Affairs
70. Dr Mahendra Nath Pandey - Human Resource Development
71. Ajay Tamta - Textiles
72. Krishna Raj - Women & Child Development
73. Mansukh L Mandaviya - Road Transport & Highways, Shipping, Chemicals & Fertilisers
74. Anupriya Patel - Health & Family Welfare
75. CR Chaudhary - Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution
76. PP Chaudhary - Law & Justice, Electronics & Information Technology
77. Dr Subhash Ramrao Bhamre - Defence
