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Latest list of new Union Ministers
and their Portfolios
Prime Minister Narendra Modi expanded his team on 09 November 2014
(Sunday) by appointing 21 new ministers, four of them in the Cabinet and three
others as ministers of state with independent charge. Manohar Parrikar, Suresh
Prabhu, J P Nadda and Birendra Singh have been inducted into the Cabinet,
while health minister Harsh Vardhan and railway minister Sadanand Gowda
have been replaced and given lesser portfolios. Here is the complete updated list
of ministers and their portfolios.

1.

Shri Narendra Modi

Prime Minister

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.

Shri Raj Nath Singh

Home Affairs

2.

Smt. Sushma Swaraj

External Affairs
Overseas Indian Affairs

3.

Shri Arun Jaitley

Finance, Corporate Affairs, Information

& Broadcasting

4.

Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu

5.

Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari

Urban Development, Housing and

Urban Poverty Alleviation,
Parliamentary Affairs
Road Transport and Highways,
Shipping

6.

Shri Manohar Parrikar

Defence

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Shri Suresh Prabhu

Railways

8.

Shri D.V. Sadananda Gowda

Law & Justice

9.

Sushri Uma Bharati

Water Resources, River Development

and Ganga Rejuvenation

10.

Dr. Najma A. Heptulla

Minority Affairs

11.

Shri Ramvilas Paswan

Consumer Affairs, Food and Public

Distribution

12.

Shri Kalraj Mishra

Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

13.

Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi

Women and Child Development

14.

Shri Ananthkumar

Chemicals and Fertilizers

15.

Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad

Communications and Information

Technology

16.

Shri Jagat Prakash Nadda

Health & Family Welfare

17.

Shri Ashok Gajapathi Raju

Pusapati

Civil Aviation

18.

Shri Anant Geete

Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

19.

Smt. Harsimrat Kaur Badal

Food Processing Industries

20.

Shri Narendra Singh Tomar

Mines, Steel

Shri Chaudhary Birender

Singh

Rural Development, Panchayati Raj,

Drinking Water and Sanitation

22.

Shri Jual Oram

Tribal Affairs

23.

Shri Radha Mohan Singh

Agriculture

24.

Shri Thaawar Chand Gehlot

Social Justice and Empowerment

25.

Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani

Human Resource Development

21.

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Dr. Harsh Vardhan

Science and Technology, Earth Sciences

MINISTERS OF STATE
27.
General V.K. Singh: Statistics and Programme Implementation
(Independent Charge), External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs
28.

Shri Inderjit Singh Rao: Planning (Independent Charge), Defence

29.

Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar: Textiles (Independent Charge)

30.

Shri Bandaru Dattatreya: Labour and Employment (Independent Charge)

31.
Shri Rajiv Pratap Rudy: Skill Development
(Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs

&

Entrepreneurship

32.
Shri Shripad Yesso Naik: AAYUSH (Independent Charge), Health &
Family Welfare
33.
Shri Dharmendra Pradhan: Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent
Charge)
34.

Shri Sarbananda Sonowal: Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge)

35.
Shri Prakash Javadekar: Environment, Forest and Climate Change
(Independent Charge)
36.
Shri Piyush Goyal: Power (Independent Charge), Coal (Independent
Charge), New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge)
37.
Dr. Jitendra Singh: Development of North Eastern Region (Independent
Charge), Prime Ministers Office, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions,
Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space
38.

Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman: Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge)

39.
Dr. Mahesh Sharma: Culture
(Independent Charge), Civil Aviation

(Independent

Charge),

Tourism

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Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi: Minority Affairs, Parliamentary Affairs

41.

Shri Ram Kripal Yadav: Drinking Water & Sanitation

42.

Shri Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary: Home Affairs

43.
Shri Sanwar Lal Jat: Water Resources, River Development & Ganga
Rejuvenation
44.

Shri Mohanbhai Kalyanjibhai Kundariya: Agriculture

45.

Shri Giriraj Singh: Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises

46.

Shri Hansraj Gangaram Ahir: Chemicals & Fertilizers

47.

Shri G.M. Siddeshwara: Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises

48.

Shri Manoj Sinha: Railways

49.

Shri Nihalchand: Panchayati Raj

50.

Shri Upendra Kushwaha: Human Resource Development

51.

Shri Radhakrishnan P.: Road Transport & Highways, Shipping

52.

Shri Kiren Rijiju: Home Affairs

53.

Shri Krishan Pal: Social Justice & Empowerment

54.

Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan: Agriculture

55.

Shri Manuskhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava: Tribal Affairs

56.

Shri Raosaheb Dadarao Danve: Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distr

57.

Shri Vishnu Deo Sai: Mines, Steel

58.

Shri Sudarshan Bhagat: Rural Development

59.

Prof. (Dr.) Ram Shankar Katheria: Human Resource Development

60.

Shri Y.S. Chowdary: Science and Technology, Earth Science

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Shri Jayant Sinha: Finance

62.

Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore: Information & Broadcasting

63.
Shri Babul Supria (Babul Supriyo) Baral: Urban Development, Housing
and Urban Poverty Alleviation
64.

Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti: Food Processing Industries

65.

Shri Vijay Sampla: Social Justice & Empowerment