New List of Cabinet Ministers of India -

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The Union Council of Ministers exercises executive authority in the Republic of

India. It consists of senior ministers, called Cabinet Ministers, and junior ministers,
called Ministers of State.

It is led by the Prime Minister. The current ministry is led by Prime Minister Narendra
Modi, who took office on 26 May 2014. There was reshuffling in his cabinet on 3rd
September 2017.

Given below is the current list of Cabinet Ministers of India updated as on 3rd
September 2017

Latest & Updated List of Cabinet Ministers of

India

Sr. No Minister Portfolio

Prime Minister and also in-charge of:
1. Shri Narendra Modi

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 - 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.
2. Shri Raj Nath Singh Minister of Home Affairs
3. Smt. Sushma Swaraj Minister of External Affairs
- Minister of Finance
4. Shri Arun Jaitley
- Minister of Corporate Affairs
- Minister of Road Transport
& Highway
- Minister of Shipping
5. Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari
- Minister of Water
Resources, River Development &
Ganga Rejuvenation
Minister of Commerce & Industry
6. Suresh Prabhu
Civil Aviation of India
Minister of Statistics &
7. D.V Sadananda Gowda
Programme Implementation
Minister of Drinking Water &
8. Sushri Uma Bharati
Sanitation
9. Nirmala Sitharaman Minister of Defence
10. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Minister of Minority Affairs
Minister of Consumer Affairs,
11. Shri Ramvilas Paswan
Food & Public Distribution

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 Minister of Women
12. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi
& Child Development
-Minister of Chemicals & Fertilizers
13. Shri Ananth Kumar
- Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs
- Minister of Law & Justice
14. Shri. Ravi Shankar Prasad - Minister of Electronics &
Information Technology
Minister of Health
15. Shri Jagat Prakash Nadda
& Family Welfare
Minister of Heavy
16. Shri. Anant Geete
Industries & Public Enterprises
Minister of Food
17. Smt. Harsimrat Kaur Badal
Processing Industries
- Minister of Rural Development
18. Shri Narendra Singh Tomar
- Minister of Panchayati Raj & Mines
19. Shri Chaudhary Birender Singh Minister of Steel
20. Shri Jual Oram Minister of Tribal Affairs
Minister of Agriculture
21. Shri Radha Mohan Singh
& Farmers Welfare
Minister of Social
22. Shri Thawar Chand Gehlot
Justice & Empowerment
23. Smt. Smriti Irani - Minister of Textiles
- Minister of Science & Technology
- Minister of Earth Sciences
24. Dr Harsh Vardhan
- Minister of Environment, Forest
& Climate Change
25. Prakash Javadekar Human Resource Development

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 - Minister of Railways
26. Piyush Goyal
- Minster of Coal
- Minister of Petroleum
& Natural Gas
27. Dharmendra Pradhan
- Minister of Skill Development
& Enterprise

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