Prime Minister Narendra Modi commenced his third consecutive term on Monday by revealing the key portfolios assigned to ministers, following their swearing-in ceremony and the first Cabinet meeting.
President of India, Droupadi Murmu, officially appointed Modi as the Prime Minister during the swearing-in ceremony on Sunday. This event marked the establishment of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government, with 30 cabinet ministers, 36 ministers of state (MoS), and 5 ministers of state with independent charge from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies joining the administration.
The key portfolios are as follows:
Cabinet Ministers:
- Amit Shah: Minister of Home Affairs and Minister of Cooperation
- Rajnath Singh: Minister of Defence
- Nitin Jairam Gadkari: Minister of Road Transport and Highways
- Jagat Prakash Nadda: Minister of Health and Family Welfare and Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers
- Shivraj Singh Chouhan: Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and Minister of Rural Development
- Nirmala Sitharaman: Minister of Finance and Minister of Corporate Affairs
- Subrahmanyam Jaishankar: Minister of External Affairs
- Manohar Lal: Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs and Minister of Power
- H. D. Kumaraswamy: Minister of Heavy Industries and Minister of Steel
- Piyush Goyal: Minister of Commerce and Industry
- Dharmendra Pradhan: Minister of Education
- Jitan Ram Manjhi: Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
- Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh: Minister of Panchayati Raj and Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying
- Sarbananda Sonowal: Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways
- Virendra Kumar: Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment
- Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu: Minister of Civil Aviation
- Pralhad Joshi: Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution; and Minister of New and Renewable Energy.
- Jual Oram: Minister of Tribal Affairs
- Giriraj Singh: Minister of Textiles
- Ashwini Vaishnaw: Minister of Railways; Minister of Information and Broadcasting; and Minister of Electronics and Information Technology.
- Jyotiraditya M. Scindia: Minister of Communications; and Minister of Development of North Eastern Region.
- Bhupender Yadav: Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
- Gajendra Singh Shekhawat: Minister of Culture; and Minister of Tourism
- Annapurna Devi: Minister of Women and Child Development
- Kiren Rijiju: Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Minister of Minority Affairs
- Hardeep Singh Puri: Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas
- Mansukh Mandaviya: Minister of Labour and Employment and Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports.
- G. Kishan Reddy: Minister of Coal and Minister of Mines
- Chirag Paswan: Minister of Food Processing Industries
- C R Patil: Minister of Jal Shakti
Ministers of State (Independent Charge):
- Rao Inderjit Singh: Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation; Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Planning; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Culture.
- Jitendra Singh: Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Science and Technology; Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Earth Sciences; Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office; Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Minister of State in the Department of Atomic Energy; and Minister of State in the Department of Space
- Arjun Ram Meghwal: Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Law and Justice; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs
- Jadhav Prataprao Ganpatrao: Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Ayush; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
- Jayant Chaudhary: Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Education
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