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Cabinet reshuffle: A look at list of Union Council of Ministers after Sunday's rejig

Indo Asian News Service • September 3, 2017, 17:16:40 IST
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Twenty-eight are in the Cabinet, 11 are of the rank of Ministers of State with independent charge and 37 are Ministers of State.

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New Delhi: The strength of the Modi ministry now rose to 76 including the prime minister. Twenty-eight are in the Cabinet, 11 are of the rank of Ministers of State with independent charge and 37 are Ministers of State. Sunday’s exercise did not involve BJP allies Shiv Sena and Janata Dal-United or new friend AIADMK. Following is the complete list of Union Council of Ministers after Sunday’s reshuffle and expansion. Narendra Modi: Prime Minister, in charge 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. Here is the complete list of Union Cabinet ministers: [caption id=“attachment_4004009” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]Nirmala Sitharaman takes oath as a Cabinet minister on Sunday. PTI Nirmala Sitharaman takes oath as a Cabinet minister on Sunday. PTI[/caption] 1) Rajnath Singh: Home Affairs 2) Sushma Swaraj: External Affairs 3) Arun Jaitley: Finance and Corporate Affairs 4) Nitin Gadkari: Road Transport and Highways, Shipping, and Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation 5) Suresh Prabhu: Commerce and Industry 6) DV Sadananda Gowda: Statistics and 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 Fertilisers, Parliamentary Affairs 11) Ravi Shankar Prasad: Law and Justice, and Electronics and 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; and Mines 17) Chaudhary Birender Singh: Steel 18) Jual Oram: Tribal Affairs 19) Radha Mohan Singh: Agriculture and Farmers Welfare 20) Thaawar Chand Gehlot: Social Justice and Empowerment 21) Smriti Zubin Irani: Textiles, and Information and Broadcasting 22) Harsh Vardhan: Science and Technology, Earth Sciences, and Environment, Forest and Climate Change 23) Prakash Javadekar: Human Resource Development 24) Dharmendra Pradhan: Petroleum and Natural Gas, and Skill Development and Entrepreneurship 25) Piyush Goyal: Railways, and Coal 26) Nirmala Sitharaman: Defence 27) Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi: Minority Affairs Here is the list of Ministers of State (Independent Charge): 1) Rao Inderjit Singh: Planning (independent charge), and Chemicals and Fertilisers 2) Santosh Kumar Gangwar: Labour and Employment 3) Shripad Naik: Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH) 4) Jitendra Singh: Development of North Eastern Region (Independent Charge), Prime Minister’s Office, Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, and Department of Space 5) Mahesh Sharma: Culture (independent charge), and Environment, Forest and Climate Change 6) Giriraj Singh: Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises 7) Manoj Sinha: Communications (independent charge), and Railways. 8) Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore: Youth Affairs and Sports (independent charge), and Information and Broadcasting. 9) RK Singh: Power, and New and Renewable Energy 10) Hardeep Singh Puri: Housing and Urban Affairs 11) Alphons Kannanthanam: Ministry of Tourism, and Electronics and Information Technology Here is the full list of Ministers of State: 1) Vijay Goel: Parliamentary Affairs, and Statistics and Programme Implementation 2) Radhakrishnan P: Finance, and Shipping 3) SS Ahluwalia: Drinking Water and Sanitation 4) Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi: Drinking Water and Sanitation 5) Ramdas Athawale: Social Justice and Empowerment 6) Vishnu Deo Sai: Steel 7) Ram Kripal Yadav: Rural Development 8) Hansraj Gangaram Ahir: Home Affairs 9) Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary: Mines, and Coal 10) Rajen Gohain: Railways 11) VK Singh: External Affairs 12) Parshottam Rupala: Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, and Panchayati Raj 13) Krishan Pal: Social Justice and Empowerment 14) Jaswantsinh 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: Ministry of Home Affairs 20) Virendra Kumar: Women and Child Development, and Minority Affairs 21) Anantkumar Hegde: Skill Development and Entrepreneurship 22) MJ Akbar: External Affairs 23) Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti: Food Processing Industries 24) YS Chowdary: Science and Technology, and Earth Sciences 25) Jayant Sinha: Civil Aviation 26) Babul Supriyo: Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises 27) Vijay Sampla: Social Justice and Empowerment 28) Arjun Ram Meghwal: Parliamentary Affairs; and Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation 29) Ajay Tamta: Textiles 30) Krishna Raj : Agriculture and Farmers Welfare 31) Mansukh L Mandaviya: Road Transport and Highways, Shipping, and Chemicals and Fertilisers 32) Anupriya Patel: Health and Family Welfare 33) CR Chaudhary: Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, and Commerce and Industry 34) PP Chaudhary: Law and Justice, and Corporate Affairs 35) Subhash Ramrao Bhamre: Defence 36) Gajendra Singh Shekhawat: Agriculture and Farmers Welfare 37) Satya Pal Singh: Human Resource Development, and Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Click here to follow LIVE updates

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