The Rashtrapati Bhavan has come out with a communiqu announcing distribution of portfolios of the ministers sworn-in on Monday in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's council of ministers:
Cabinet ministers:
1. Raj Nath Singh Home Affairs
2. Sushma Swaraj External Affairs Overseas Indian Affairs
3. Arun Jaitley Finance, Corporate Affairs, Defence
4. M Venkaiah Naidu Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Parliamentary Affairs
5. Nitin Jairam Gadkari Road Transport and Highways, Shipping
6. D.V. Sadananda Gowda Railways
7. Uma Bharati Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
8. Najma A. Heptulla Minority Affairs
9. Gopinathrao Munde Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation
10. Ramvilas Paswan Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
11. Kalraj Mishra Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
12. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi Women and Child Development
13. Ananthkumar Chemicals and Fertilizers
14. Ravi Shankar Prasad Communications and Information Technology, Law and Justice
15. Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati Civil Aviation
16. Anant Geete Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
17. Harsimrat Kaur Badal Food Processing Industries
18. Narendra Singh Tomar Mines, Steel, Labour and Employment
19. Jual Oram Tribal Affairs
20. Radha Mohan Singh Agriculture
21. Thaawar Chand Gehlot Social Justice and Empowerment
22. Smriti Zubin Irani Human Resource Development
23. Harsh Vardhan Health and Family Welfare
MINISTERS OF STATE
1. General (retd) V.K. Singh Development of North Eastern Region (Independent Charge), External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs
2. Inderjit Singh Rao Planning (Independent Charge) Statistics and Programme Implementation (Independent Charge)Defence
3. Santosh Kumar Gangwar Textiles (Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
4. Shripad Yesso Naik Culture (Independent Charge) Tourism (Independent Charge)
5. Shri Dharmendra Pradhan Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)
6. Sarbananda Sonowal Skill Development, Entrepreneurship, Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge)
7. Prakash Javadekar Information and Broadcasting (Independent Charge)Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge)Parliamentary Affairs 8. Piyush Goyal Power (Independent Charge)Coal (Independent Charge)New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge)
9. Jitendra Singh Science and Technology (Independent Charge)Earth Sciences (Independent Charge)Prime Minister OfficePersonnel, Public Grievances & PensionsDepartment of Atomic EnergyDepartment of Space
10. Nirmala Sitharaman Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge)FinanceCorporate Affairs
11. G.M. Siddeshwara Civil Aviation
12. Manoj Sinha Railways
13. Nihalchand Chemicals and Fertilizers
14. Upendra Kushwaha Rural Development Panchayati Ra jDrinking Water and Sanitation
15. Radhakrishnan P Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
16. Kiren Rijiju Home Affairs
17. Krishan Pal Road Transport and HighwaysShipping
18. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan AgricultureFood Processing Industries
19. Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava Tribal Affairs
20. Raosaheb Dadarao Danve Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
21. Vishnu Deo Sai MinesSteelLabour and Employment
22. Sudarshan Bhagat Social Justice and Empowerment