www.gradeup.co The list of Cabinet Ministers of India 2019 has been issued now! After the newly elected Prime Minister of India- Narendra Modi and other 57 ministers took oath on 30th May 2019, the Government of India has made the list of Cabinet Ministers and Ministers of State public. We have shared the complete list of Cabinet Ministers of India 2019, Ministry Portfolios and their respective Departments below. Know the Union Council of Ministers of India (Narendra Modi's Cabinet (Council) of Ministers) to update your knowledge. Provisions under constitution related to the council of ministers • Article 74 - There shall be a Council of Ministers with the Prime Minister at the head to aid and advise the President who shall, in the exercise of his functions, act in accordance with such advice. • Before 91st constitutional amendment act 2003, the Prime Minister had the discretion to appoint any number in his council of ministers. • But the 91st Constitution Amendment Act, 2003 made a drastic change in curbing such power of the Prime Minister. • This Amendment added clause (1A) in this Article which made a specific provision that, the total number of Ministers, including Prime Minister, in no case, can exceed 15 per cent of the total number of Lok Sabha members. Interesting Facts about Ministers of India • First Prime Minister of India - Jawaharlal Nehru. • First President of India - Dr Rajendra Prasad • First Deputy Prime Minister of India - Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. • First Home Minister of India - Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel • First Education Minister of India - Maulana Abul Kalam Azad • First Defence Minister of India - Baldev Singh • First External Affairs Minister of India - Jawaharlal Nehru • First Finance Minister of India - R. K. Shanmukham Chetty Cabinet Ministers of India 2019 and Their Departments Portfolio (Department) Minister Name Constituency Prime Minister and Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy; Department of Narendra Modi Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh Space; and All important policy issues; and All other portfolios not allocated to any Minister. Ministry of Home Affairs Amit Shah Gandhinagar, Gujarat 1 www.gradeup.co Ministry of Defence Rajnath Singh Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh Subrahmanyam Minister of External Affairs - Jaishankar Minister of Finance; and Nirmala Sitharaman Karnataka, Rajya Sabha Minister of Corporate Affairs Minister of Road Transport and Highways; and Minister of Nitin Jairam Gadkari Nagpur, Maharashtra Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. Minister of Chemicals and D.V. Sadananda Bangalore North, Karnataka Fertilizers Gowda Minister of Health and Family Welfare; Minister of Science Dr. Harsh Vardhan Chandni Chowk, Delhi and Technology; and Minister of Earth Sciences Minister of Consumer Affairs, Ramvilas Paswan -- Food and Public Distribution Minister of Law and Justice; Minister of Communications; Ravi Shankar Prasad Patna Sahib, Bihar and Minister of Electronics and Information Technology Ministry of Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Jharkhand, Rajya Sabha Minister of Parliamentary Affairs; Minister of Coal; and Prahlad Joshi Dharwad, Karnataka Minister of Mines Minister of Skill Development Mahendra Nath Pandey Chandauli. Uttar Pradesh and Entrepreneurship Ministry of Heavy Industries Arvind Sawant Mumbai South, Maharashtra and Public Enterprises Minister of Food Processing Harsimrat Kaur Badal Bathinda, Punjab Industries Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare; Minister of Narendra Singh Morena, Madhya Pradesh Rural Development; and Tomar Minister of Panchayati Raj. Ministry of Tribal Affairs Arjun Munda Khunti, Jharkhand Minister of Animal Husbandry, Giriraj Singh Begusarai, Bihar Dairying and Fisheries 2 www.gradeup.co Minister of Women and Child Development; and Minister of Smriti Zubin Irani Amethi, Uttar Pradesh Textiles Minister of Human Resource Ramesh Haridwar, Uttarakhand Development Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ Minister of Social Justice and Thaawar Chand Madhya Pradesh, Rajya Sabha Empowerment Gehlot Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change; and Prakash Javadekar Maharashtra, Rajya Sabha Minister of Information and Broadcasting Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas; and Minister of Dharmendra Pradhan Madhya Pradesh, Rajya Sabha Steel Minister of Railways; and Minister of Commerce and Piyush Goyal Maharashtra, Rajya Sabha Industry Minister of Jal Shakti Gajendra Shekhawat Jodhpur, Rajasthan List of Ministers of State (Independent Charge) Minister Name Portfolio Santosh Kumar Gangwar Ministry of Labour and Employment. Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation; Rao Inderjit Singh and Ministry of Planning. Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Shripad Yesso Naik Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH); and Ministry of Defence. Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region; Prime Minister’s Office; Ministry of Personnel, Public Dr. Jitendra Singh Grievances and Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy; Department of Space. Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports; and the Ministry Kiren Rijiju of Minority Affairs. Prahalad Singh Patel Ministry of Culture; and Ministry of Tourism. Ministry of Power; Ministry of New and Renewable Raj Kumar Singh Energy; and Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship. Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs; Ministry of Hardeep Singh Puri Civil Aviation; and Ministry of Commerce and Industry. 3 www.gradeup.co Ministry of Shipping; and Ministry of Chemicals and Mansukh L. Mandaviya Fertilizers. Ministers of States 2019 Minister Name Portfolio Faggansingh Kulaste Minister of State in the Ministry of Steel. Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Ashwini Kumar Choubey Welfare. Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs; and Ministry of Heavy Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal Industries and Public Enterprises. General (Retd.) V. K. Singh Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. Krishan Pal Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Raosaheb Danve Distribution. G. Kishan Reddy Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs. Purushottam Rupala Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. Ramdas Athawale Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti Ministry of Rural Development. Babul Supriyo Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries. Ministry of Human Resource Development; Ministry of Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao Communications; and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. Ministry of Finance; and Minister of State in the Ministry Anurag Thakur of Corporate Affairs. Suresh Angadi Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways. Nityanand Rai Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs. Ministry of Jal Shakti; and Minister of State in the Ratanlal Kataria Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. Ministry of External Affairs; and Ministry of V. Muraleedharan Parliamentary Affairs. Renuka Singh Saruta Ministry of Tribal Affairs. 4 www.gradeup.co Som Parkash Ministry of Commerce and Industry. Rameswar Teli Ministry of Food Processing Industries. Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises; and Pratap Chandra Sarangi Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries. Kailash Choudhary Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. Debasree Chaudhuri Ministry of Women and Child Development. 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