NDA Government’s Updated list of Council of Ministers

Prime Minister Narendra Modi expanded his NDA government’s the Council of Ministers on 7 July 2021, the first such exercise in the third year oh his second term.

The complete List of Council of Ministers is noteworthy.

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The list below is categorized into :

  • Cabinet ministers,
  • Ministers of State with independent charge,
  • Ministers of State.

 

Prime Minister of India

Narendra Damodardas Modi:

  • Ministry of 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

  1. Rajnath Singh: Ministry of Defence
  2. Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar: External Affairs.
  3. Amit Shah: Ministry of Home Affairs ; Ministry of Cooperation
  4. Nitin Gadkari: Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.
  5. Nirmala Sitharaman: Ministry of Finance ; Ministry of Corporate Affairs
  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 Gandhi: Women and Child Development
  10. Ananthkumar: Chemicals and Fertilizers ; Parliamentary Affairs
  11. Ravi Shankar Prasad: Law & Justice ; Electronic & Information Technology
  12. Jagat Prakash Nadda: Health & Family Welfare
  13. Anant Geete: Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
  14. Harsimrat Kaur Badal: Food Processing Industries
  15. Narendra Singh Tomar:
  16. Chaudhary Birender Singh: Steel
  17. Jual Oram: Tribal Affairs
  18. Radha Mohan Singh: Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
  19. Thawar Chand Gehlot: Social Justice and Empowerment
  20. Smriti Irani: Textiles
  21. Dr. Harsh Vardhan: Science and Technology, Earth Sciences ; Environment, Forest and Climate Change
  22. Prakash Javadekar : Human Resource Development
  23. Dharmendra Pradhan : Petroleum and Natural Gas; Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.
  24. Piyush Goyal : Railways; Coal; Finance, Corporate Affairs (till Arun Jaitely recovers from kidney transplant)
  25. Nirmala Sitharaman : Defence.
  26. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi : Minority Affairs.

 

MINISTERS OF STATE (Independent Charge)

  1. Rao Inderjit Singh : Planning (Independent Charge) ; Chemicals and Fertilizers.
  2. Santosh Kumar Gangwar : Labour and Employment.
  3. Shripad Yesso Naik: Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH) (Independent Charge)
  4. Dr. Jitendra Singh: Development of North Eastern Region (Independent Charge) ; Prime Minister’s Office; Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions ; Department of Atomic Energy ; Department of Space
  5. Dr. Mahesh Sharma: Culture (Independent Charge), Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
  6. Giriraj Singh : Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.
  7. Manoj Sinha : Communications (Independent Charge) ; Railways
  8. Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore: Youth Affairs and Sports ; Information & Broadcasting
  9. Raj Kumar Singh : Power; New and Renewable Energy
  10. Hardeep Singh Puri : Housing and Urban Affairs.
  11. Alphons Kannanthanam :  Tourism.

 

MINISTERS OF STATE

  1. Vijay Goel : Parliamentary Affairs;  Statistics and Programme Implementation.
  2. Radhakrishnan P.: Finance ; Shipping.
  3. S.S. Ahluwalia : Ministry of electronics & information technology (MeitY)
  4. Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi : Drinking Water & Sanitation
  5. Ramdas Athawale : Social Justice & Empowerment
  6. Vishnu Deo Sai : Steel
  7. Ram Kripal Yadav : Rural Development
  8. Hansraj Gangaram Ahir: Home Affairs
  9. Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary: Mines; Coal.
  10. Rajen Gohain : Railways
  11. General(Retd.) V.K. Singh: External Affairs
  12. Parshottam Rupala : Agriculture & Farmers Welfare; Panchayati Raj
  13. Krishan Pal: Social Justice & Empowerment
  14. Jasvantsinh Sumanbhai Bhabhor : Tribal Affairs
  15. Shiv Pratap Shukla : Finance
  16. Ashwini Kumar Choubey : Health and Family Welfare.
  17. Sudarshan Bhagat: Tribal Affairs
  18. Upendra Kushwaha: Human Resource Development
  19. Kiren Rijiju: Home Affairs
  20. Dr. Virendra Kumar : Women and Child Development;  Minority Affairs.
  21. Anant Kumar Hegde: Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
  22. M. J. Akbar : External Affairs
  23. Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti : Food Processing Industries
  24. Jayant Sinha: Civil Aviation
  25. Babul Supriyo: Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
  26. Vijay Sampla: Social Justice & Empowerment
  27. Arjun Ram Meghwal : Parliamentary Affairs; Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation.
  28. Ajay Tamta: Textiles
  29. Krishna Raj : Agriculture and Farmer Welfare
  30. Mansukh L. Mandaviya : Road Transport & Highways ; Shipping ; Chemicals & Fertilizers
  31. Anupriya Patel : Health & Family Welfare
  32. C.R. Chaudhary : Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution ; Commerce and Industry
  33. P.P. Chaudhary : Law & Justice ; Corporate Affairs
  34. Dr. Subhash Ramrao Bhamre : Defence
  35. Gajendra Singh Shekhawat : Agriculture and Farmer Welfare
  36. Satya Pal Singh : Human Resource Development ; Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation

 

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