New Delhi [India], June 10: The composition of the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) remains unchanged in the new BJP-led NDA government with Union Ministers Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nirmala Sitharaman and S. Jaishankar retaining their portfolios of Defense, Home, Finance and External Affairs.
The four senior BJP leaders held the same portfolios in the previous NDA government.
The portfolios were announced on Monday in a press communique by the President’s Secretariat a day after the swearing-in of the council of ministers at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. The portfolios were allocated on the advice of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
As in the previous NDA government, Home Minister Amit Shah is also Minister of Cooperation, and Finance Minister Sitharaman also has the Corporate Affairs portfolio.
Apart from portfolios not allocated to any Minister and all important policy issues, PM Modi is also in-charge of Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space.
Other cabinet ministers who have retained their portfolios include Nitin Gadkari who continues to be Road Transport and Highways Minister, Sarbananda Sonowal (Ports, Shipping and Waterways), Bhupendra Yadav (Environment, Forest and Climate Change) and Virendra Kumar (Social Justice and Empowerment)
Ashwini Vaishnaw continues to be Minister of Railways and Electronics and Information Technology and has a new portfolio of Information and Broadcasting.
Piyush Goyal retains Commerce and Industry portfolio, Dharmendra Pradhan continues to be Union Minister for Education and Hardeep Singh Puri of Petroleum and Natural Gas.
BJP chief JP Nadda, who was part of PM Modi’s cabinet in 2014, will be the new Health Minister. He also has the Chemicals and Fertilizers portfolio.
Telugu Desam Party’s Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu will be the new Civil Aviation Minister, a post previously held by BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia. (ANI)
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The President of India, as advised by the Prime Minister, directed the allocation of portfolios among the following members of the Union Council of Ministers :
| Prime Minister
Shri Narendra Modi
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Prime Minister and also in-charge of:
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. | Shri Raj Nath Singh | Minister of Defence. |
| 2. | Shri Amit Shah | Minister of Home Affairs; and
Minister of Cooperation. |
| 3. | Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari | Minister of Road Transport and Highways. |
| 4. | Shri Jagat Prakash Nadda | Minister of Health and Family Welfare; and
Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers. |
| 5. | Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan | Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare; and
Minister of Rural Development. |
| 6. | Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman | Minister of Finance; and
Minister of Corporate Affairs. |
| 7. | Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar | Minister of External Affairs. |
| 8. | Shri Manohar Lal | Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs; and
Minister of Power. |
| 9. | Shri H. D. Kumaraswamy | Minister of Heavy Industries; and
Minister of Steel. |
| 10. | Shri Piyush Goyal | Minister of Commerce and Industry. |
| 11. | Shri Dharmendra Pradhan | Minister of Education. |
| 12. | Shri Jitan Ram Manjhi | Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. |
| 13. | Shri Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh | Minister of Panchayati Raj; and
Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying. |
| 14. | Shri Sarbananda Sonowal | Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways. |
| 15. | Dr. Virendra Kumar | Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment. |
| 16. | Shri Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu | Minister of Civil Aviation. |
| 17. | Shri Pralhad Joshi | Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution; and
Minister of New and Renewable Energy. |
| 18. | Shri Jual Oram | Minister of Tribal Affairs. |
| 19. | Shri Giriraj Singh | Minister of Textiles. |
| 20. | Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw | Minister of Railways;
Minister of Information and Broadcasting; and Minister of Electronics and Information Technology. |
| 21. | Shri Jyotiraditya M. Scindia | Minister of Communications; and
Minister of Development of North Eastern Region. |
| 22. | Shri Bhupender Yadav | Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. |
| 23. | Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat | Minister of Culture; and
Minister of Tourism. |
| 24. | Smt. Annpurna Devi | Minister of Women and Child Development |
| 25. | Shri Kiren Rijiju | Minister of Parliamentary Affairs; and
Minister of Minority Affairs. |
| 26. | Shri Hardeep Singh Puri | Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas |
| 27. | Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya | Minister of Labour and Employment; and
Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports. |
| 28. | Shri G. Kishan Reddy | Minister of Coal; and
Minister of Mines. |
| 29. | Shri Chirag Paswan | Minister of Food Processing Industries. |
| 30. | Shri C R Patil | Minister of Jal Shakti.
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For full list visit – presidentofindia.gov.in):-
