List of Union Cabinet Ministers of India 2017

List of Union Cabinet Ministers of India 2017

The Cabinet of India, also known as the Union Cabinet of India, is the collective decision-making body of the Government of India, consists of the Prime Minister and the cabinet ministers. List of Union Cabinet Ministers of India & Ministers of State of India is given below.

Prime Minister
	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
Union Cabinet Ministers of India
1	Raj Nath Singh	Home Affairs
2	Sushma Swaraj	External Affairs
3	Arun Jaitley	Finance, Corporate Affairs
4	Nitin Jairam Gadkari	Road Transport and Highways, Shipping, Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
5	Suresh Prabhu	Commerce and Industry
6	D. V. Sadananda Gowda	Statistics & Programme Implementation
7	Uma Bharati	Drinking Water and Sanitation
8	Ramvilas Paswan	Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
9	Maneka Sanjay Gandhi	Women and Child Development
10	Ananthkumar	Chemicals and Fertilizers Parliamentary Affairs
11	Ravi Shankar Prasad	Law & Justice Electronics & Information Technology
12	Jagat Prakash Nadda	Health and Family Welfare
13	Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati	Civil Aviation
14	Anant Geete	Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
15	Harsimrat Kaur Badal	Food Processing Industries
16	Narendra Singh Tomar	Rural Development Panchayati Raj Mines
17	Chaudhary Birender Singh	Steel
18	Jual Oram	Tribal Affairs
19	Radha Mohan Singh	Agriculture & Farmers Welfare
20	Thawar Chand Gehlot	Social Justice and Empowerment
21	Smriti Zubin Irani	Textiles Information & Broadcasting
22	Dr. Harsh Vardhan	Science and Technology, Earth Sciences Environment, Forest & Climate Change
23	Prakash Javadekar	Human Resource Development
24	Dharmendra Pradhan	Petroleum and Natural Gas Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
25	Piyush Goyal	Railways Coal
26	Nirmala Sitharaman	Defence
27	Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi	Minority Affairs

Narendra Modi Cabinet reshuffled- 9 New Faces as Ministers

Narendra Modi Cabinet reshuffled- 9 New Faces as Ministers

Nine new Ministers of state were inducted into the Union Council of Ministers. Four Ministers of state were elevated to the cabinet rank. They are Minister of State for Commerce and Industries Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of State For Power, Coal, New and Renewable Energy and Mines, Piyush Goyal and Minister of State for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi. President Ram Nath Kovindadministered the oath of office and secrecy to them at Rashtrapati Bhavan. The portfolios of the Ministers will be announced later.

Here is the 9 New Ministers, who take oath-

1. Former IFS officer Hardeep Puri

2. Former Mumbai Police chief Satyapal Singh 

3. Former IAS officer Alphons Kannanthanam

4. Lok Sabha MP's from Madhya Pradesh Virendra Kumar

5. From Karnataka Anant Kumar Hegde 

6. From Rajasthan Gajendra Singh Shekhawat 

7. From Bihar Ashwini Kumar Choubey 

8. From Bihar Raj Kumar Singh and 

9. Rajya Sabha MP from Uttar Pradesh Shiv Pratap Shukla 

Cabinet Minister and their Portfolios in 2017

Cabinet Minister and their Portfolios in 2017

Cabinet Ministers
● 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 
● Rajnath Singh – Home Affairs 
● Sushma Swaraj – External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs 
● Arun Jaitley – Finance, Corporate Affairs and Defence
● M Venkaiah Naidu – Urban Development Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Information and Broadcasting
● Nitin Jairam Gadkari – Road Transport and Highways, Shipping
● Suresh Prabhu – Railways
● Uma Bharati – Water resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
● Ramvilas Paswan – Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution 
● Kalraj Mishra – Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises 
● Maneka Sanjay Gandhi – Women and Child Development
● Ananth Kumar – Chemicals and Fertilizers, Parliamentary Affairs
● Ravi Shankar Prasad – Law and Justice, Electronics and Information Technology
● Ashok Gajapathi Raju – Civil Aviation 
● Anant Geete – Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises 
● Harsimrat Kaur Badal – Food Processing Industries 
● Narendra Singh Tomar – Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation 
● Jual Oram – Tribal Affairs 
● Chaudhary Birender Singh – Steel
● Radha Mohan Singh – Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
● Thaawar Chand Gehlot – Social Justice and Empowerment 
● Smriti Irani – Textiles
● Jagat Prakash Nadda – Health and Family Welfare
● Dr Harsh Vardhan – Science and Technology, Earth Sciences
● Prakash Javadekar – Human Resource Development

Ministers of State (Independent Charge) 
● Rao Inderjit Singh – Planning (Independent Charge), Urban Development Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
● Bandaru Dattatreya – Labour and Employment (Independent Charge)
● Rajiv Pratap Rudy – Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (Independent Charge)
● Vijay Goel – Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge), Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
● Shripad Yesso Naik – AAYUSH (Independent Charge)
● Dharmendra Pradhan – Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)
● Piyush Goyal – Power (Independent Charge) Coal (Independent Charge) New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge) Mines (Independent Charge)
● Jitendra Singh – Development of North Eastern Region (Independent Charge) Prime Minister’s Office Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Department of Atomic Energy Department of Space
● Nirmala Sitharaman – Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge)
● Mahesh Sharma – Culture (Independent Charge) Tourism (Independent Charge)
● Manoj Sinha – Communications (Independent Charge) Railways
● Anil Madhav Dave – Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge)
● Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi – Minority Affairs (Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs

Ministers of State 
● General V. K. Singh – External Affairs
● Santosh Kumar Gangwar – Finance
● Faggan Singh Kulaste – Health and Family Welfare
● SS Ahluwalia – Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Parliamentary Affairs
● Ramdas Athawale – Social Justice and Empowerment
● Ram Kripal Yadav – Rural Development
● Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary – Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
● Giriraj Singh – Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
● Hansraj Gangaram Ahir – Home Affairs
● Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi – Drinking Water and Sanitation
● Rajen Gohain – Railways
● Parshottam Rupala – Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Panchayati Raj
● MJ Akbar – External Affairs
● Upendra Kushwaha – Human Resources Development
● Radhakrishnan P – Road Transport and Highways, Shipping
● Kiren Rijiju – Home Affairs
● Krishan Pal – Social Justice and Empowerment
● Jasvantsinh Sumanbhai Bhabhor – Tribal Affairs
● Sanjeev Kumar Balyan – Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
● Vishnu Deo Sai – Steel
● Sudarshan Bhagat – Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
● Y S Chowdary – Science and Technology, Earth Science
● Jayant Sinha – Civil Aviation
● Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore – Information and Broadcasting
● Babul Supriyo – Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
● Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti – Food Processing Industries
● Vijay Sampla – Social Justice and Empowerment
● Arjun Ram Meghwal – Finance, Corporate Affairs
● Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey – Human Resource Development
● Ajay Tamta – Textiles
● Krishna Raj – Women and Child Development
● Mansukh L. Mandaviya – Road Transport and Highways, Shipping, Chemicals and Fertilizers
● Anupriya Patel – Health and Family Welfare
● CR Chaudhary – Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
● P P Chaudhary – Law and Justice Electronics and Information Technology
● Subhash Ramrao Bhamre – Defence