MINISTERS OF STATE Minister Before Now Rao Inderjit Singh Planning (Independent Planning (Independent Charge), Defence Charge), Urban Development, Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation Rajiv Pratap Rudy Skill Development & Skill Development & Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship (Independent Charge), (Independent Charge) Parliamentary Affairs Vijay Goel Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge) Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation Mahesh Sharma Culture (Independent Charge), Culture (Independent Tourism (Independent Charge), Charge), Tourism MoS Civil Aviation (Independent Charge) Manoj Sinha Railways Communications (Indepen- dent Charge), Railways Anil Madhav Dave Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge) General (Retired) Statistics and Programme External Affairs V.K. Singh Implementation (Independent Charge), External Affairs Santosh Kumar Gangwar Textiles (Independent Charge) Finance Faggan Singh Kulaste Health & Family Welfare SS Ahluwalia Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Parliamentary Affairs Ramdas Athawale Social Justice & Empowerment Ram Kripal Yadav Drinking Water and Sanitation Rural Development Haribhai Parthbhai Home Micro, Small & Medium Chaudhary Ministry Enterprises Hansraj Gangaram Ahir Chemicals and Fertilisers Home Affairs Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi Drinking Water & Sanitation Rajen Gohain Railways Parshottam Rupala Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare, Panchayati Raj M J Akbar External Affairs Jasvantsinh Sumanbhai Bhabhor Tribal Affairs Sanjeev Kumar Balyan Agriculture Water Resources, River Develo- pment & Ganga Rejuvenation Jayant Sinha Finance Civil Aviation Arjun Ram Meghwal BJP Lok Sabha chief whip Finance, Corporate Affairs Mahendra Nath Pandey Human Resource Development Ajay Tamta Textiles Krishna Raj Women & Child Development Mansukh L. Mandaviya Road Transport & Highways, Shipping, Chemicals & Fert Anupriya Patel Health & Family Welfare C.R. Chaudhary Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution PP Chaudhary. Law & Justice, Electronics & Information Technology Subhash Ramrao Bhamre Defence Note: In addition, five Ministers of State were dropped; blank space denotes the minister was inducted in the council of ministers on Tuesday.