New Delhi, May 31, 2019: President Ram Nath Kovind as advised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday directed the allocation of portfolios among the following members of the Union Council of Ministers.
Narendra Modi : Prime Minister and also in-charge of Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions;
Department of Atomic Energy; Department of Space; and All important policy issues; and All other portfolios not allocated to any Minister.
Cabinet Ministers
Rajnath Singh : Minister of Defence.
Amit Shah : Minister of Home Affairs.
Nitin Gadkari: Minister of Road Transport and Highways; and Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.
D.V. Sadananda Gowda: Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers.
Nirmala Sitharaman: Minister of Finance and Minister of Corporate Affairs.
Ramvilas Paswan: Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.
Narendra Singh Tomar: Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare; Minister of Rural Development; and Minister of Panchayati Raj.
Ravi Shankar Prasad: Minister of Law and Justice; Minister of Communications; and Minister of Electronics and Information Technology.
Harsimrat Kaur Badal: Minister of Food Processing Industries.
Thaawar Chand Gehlot: Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment.
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar: Minister of External Affairs.
Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank: Minister of Human Resource Development.
Arjun Munda: Minister of Tribal Affairs.
Smriti Irani: Minister of Women and Child Development; and Minister of Textiles.
Harsh Vardhan: Minister of Health and Family Welfare; Minister of Science and Technology; and Minister of Earth Sciences.
Prakash Javadekar: Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change; and Minister of Information and Broadcasting.
Piyush Goyal: Minister of Railways; and Minister of Commerce and Industry.
Dharmendra Pradhan: Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas; and Minister of Steel.
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi: Minister of Minority Affairs.
Pralhad Joshi: Minister of Parliamentary Affairs; Minister of Coal; and Minister of Mines.
Mahendra Nath Pandey: Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.
(IANS)
