- Saturday, July 27, 2024
A total of 72 ministers, including the prime minister, were sworn in on June 9.
By: Shubham Ghosh
THE third Indian government led by prime minister Narendra Modi was sworn in on Sunday (9) at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. It includes, besides the PM, 71 ministers from his Bharatiya Janata Party and many other parties that are in the National Democratic Alliance that won majority in the recently held general elections.
While some of the top portfolios went to the ministers who held them earlier, including home, defence, finance and external affairs, those of some previous ministers were changed while some new faces were inducted.
Here’s a full list of who has got what ministry in the third government of PM Modi:
Prime minister Narendra Modi
Ministry of personnel, department of atomic energy, public grievances and pensions, department of space, and portfolios not allocated to any minister. He is also in charge of all important policy issues.
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Home affairs
Minister: Amit Shah
Minister of state: Nityanad Rai and Bandi Sanjay Kumar
Cooperation
Minister: Amit Shah
Ministers of state: Krishan Pal and Murlidhar Mohol
Defence
Minister: Rajnath Singh
Minister of state: Sanjay Seth
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External affairs
Minister: Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
Ministers of state: Kirtivardhan Singh and Pabitra Margherita
Finance
Minister: Nirmala Sitharaman
Minister of state: Pankaj Chaudhury
Corporate Affairs
Minister: Nirmala Sitharaman
Minister of State: Harsh Malhotra
Road transport and highways
Minister: Nitin Gadkari
Ministers of state: Ajay Tamta and Harsh Malhotra
Health and family welfare
Minister: Jagat Prakash Nadda
Ministers of state: Anupriya Patel and Prataprao Ganpatrao Jadhav
Chemicals and fertilisers
Minister: JP Nadda
Minister of state: Anupriya Patel
Youth affairs and sports
Minister: Mansukh Mandaviya
Minister of state: Raksha Nikhil Khadse
Labour and employment
Minister: Mansukh Mandaviya
Minister of State: Shobha Karandlaje
Food processing industries
Minister: Chirag Paswan
Minister of state: Ravneet Singh Bittu
Agriculture and farmers welfare
Minister: Shivraj Singh Chouhan
Ministers of state: Ram Nath Thakur and Bhagirath Choudhary
Rural development
Minister: Shivraj Singh Chouhan
Ministers of state: Dr Chandra Shekhar Pemmasani and Kamlesh Paswan
Power
Minister: Manohar Lal Khattar
Minister of state: Shripad Naik
Housing and Urban Affairs
Minister: Manohar Lal Khattar
Minister of state: Tokhan Sahu
Tourism
Minister: Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
Minister of state: Suresh Gopi
Culture
Minister: Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
Minister of state: Rao Inderjit Singh
Information and Broadcasting
Minister: Ashwini Vaishnaw
Minister of State: L Murugan
Railways
Minister: Ashwini Vaishnaw
Minister of state: Ravneet Singh Bittu and V Somanna
Electronics and Information Technology
Minister: Ashwini Vaishnaw
Minister of state: Jitin Prasada
Civil aviation
Minister: Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu,
Minister of state: Murlidhar Kisan Mohol
Education
Minister: Dharmendra Pradhan
Ministers of state: Sukanta Majumdar and Jayant Chaudhary
Women and child development
Minister: Annapurna Devi
Minister of State: Savitri Thakur
Environment, forest and climate change
Minister: Bhupendra Yadav
Minister of State: Kirtivardhan Singh
Jal Shakti (water power)
Minister: C R Paatil
Ministers of state: V Somanna and Raj Bhushan Choudhary
Parliamentary affairs
Minister: Kiren Rijiju
Ministers of state: L Murugan and Arjun Ram Meghwal
Minority Affairs
Union Minister: Kiren Rijiju
Minister of state: George Kurian
Heavy industries
Minister: HD Kumaraswamy
Minister of state: Bhupathi Raju Srinivasa Varma
Steel
Minister: HD Kumaraswamy
Minister of state: Bhupathi Raju Srinivasa Varma
Communication
Minister: Jyotiraditya Scindia
Minister of state: Dr Chandra Shekhar Pemmasani
Development of North Eastern region
Minister: Jyotiraditya Scindia
Minister of State: Sukanta Majumdar
Textiles
Union Minister: Giriraj Singh
Minister of state: Pabitra Margherita
Consumer affairs, food and public distribution
Minister: Prahlad Joshi
Minister of state: BL Verma and Nimuben Jayantibhai Bambhaniya
New and renewable energy
Minister: Prahlad Joshi
Minister of State: Shripad Naik
Petroleum and natural gas
Minister: Hardeep Singh Puri
Minister of state: Suresh Gopi
Ministry of micro, small and medium enterprises
Minister: Jitan Ram Manjhi
Minister of state: Shobha Karandlaje
Panchayati raj
Minister: Lallan Singh
Minister of state: SP Singh Baghel
Fisheries, animal husbandry and dairy
Minister: Lallan Singh
Minister of state: SP Singh Baghel and George Kurian
Commerce and industry
Union Minister: Piyush Goyal
Minister of state: Jitin Prasada
Ports, shipping and waterways
Minister: Sarbananda Sonowal
Minister of State: Shantanu Thakur
Social justice and empowerment
Minister: Dr Virendra Kumar
Minister of state: Ramdas Athawale, BL Verma
Tribal affairs
Minister: Jual Oram
Minister of state: Durgadas Uikey
Coal
Minister: G Kishan Reddy
Minister of state: Satish Chandra Dubey
Mines
Minister: G Kishan Reddy
Minister of state: Satish Chandra Dubey
Ministers of state (Independent Charge)
Rao Inderjit Singh
Ministry of statistics and programme implementation, ministry of planning and ministry of culture
Arjun Ram Meghwal
Ministry of Law and Justice
Dr Jitendra Singh
Ministry of science and technology, ministry of earth sciences
Minister of state in the ministry of personnel, public grievances and pensions, minister of state in the department of space and minister of state in department atomic energy
Jayant Chaudhary
Ministry of skill development and entrepreneurship
Prataprao Ganpatrao Jadhav
Ministry of Ayush
