Modi Cabinet 2024: PM’s Core Team Retains Home, Defence, Finance — Check Full List

Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired the first meeting of his Union Cabinet on Monday and allocated portfolios to ministers a day after taking oath in a glittering ceremony at Rashtrapathi Bhavan. Key ministries in the new National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government were allocated to senior leaders of the BJP: Home Affairs to Amit Shah, Defence to Rajnath Singh, External Affairs to S Jaishankar, Road Transport to Nitin Gadkari and Finance to Nirmala Sitharaman. The allocations target continuity and were largely on the lines of the previous NDA government.

CABINET MINISTERS

1. Rajnath Singh – Ministry of Defence
2. Amit Shah – Home Ministry and Minister of Cooperation
3. Nitin Gadkari – Ministry of Road Transport & Highways
4. JP Nadda – Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Chemicals and Fertilisers
5. Shivraj Singh Chouhan – Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development
6. Nirmala Sitharaman – Ministry of Finance, Corporate Affairs
7. S Jaishankar – Minister of External Affairs
8. Manohar Lal Khattar – Power Ministry, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
9. HD Kumaraswamy – Ministry of Heavy Industry and Steel
10. Piyush Goyal – Ministry of Commerce and Industry
11. Dharmendra Pradhan – Ministry of Education
12. Jitan Ram Manjhi – Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME)
13. Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh – Ministry of Panchayati Raj; Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairy
14. Sarbananda Sonowal – Ministry of Shipping
15. Dr Virendra Kumar – Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
16. Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu – Ministry of Civil Aviation
17. Pralhad Joshi –  Food, Consumer Affairs and Renewable Energy Ministry
18. Jual Oram – Ministry of Tribal Affairs
19. Giriraj Singh – Textile Ministry
20. Ashwini Vaishnaw – Ministry of Railways, Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Electronics and Information Technology
21. Jyotiraditya Scindia – Ministry of Communications, Development of North Eastern Region
22. Bhupender Yadav – Ministry of  Environment, Forest and Climate Change of India
23. Gajendra Singh Shekhawat – Ministry of Culture and Tourism
24. Annapurna Devi – Ministry of Women and Child Development
25. Kiren Rijiju – Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, Minority Affairs
26. Hardeep Singh Puri – Petroleum Ministry
27. Mansukh Mandaviya – Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
28. G Kishan Reddy – Minister of Coal and Minister of Mines
29. Chirag Paswan – Ministry of Food Processing
30. CR Patil – Ministry of Jal Shakti

MINISTERS OF STATE

1. Jitin Prasada – Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology

2. Shripad Yesso Naik – Minister of State in the Ministry of Power; and Minister of State in the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.

3. Pankaj Chaudhary – Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance

4. Krishan Pal – Minister of State in the Ministry of Cooperation

5. Ramdas Athawale – Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment

6. Ram Nath Thakur – Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare

7. Nityanand Rai – Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs.

8. Anupriya Patel – Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers.

9. V. Somanna – Minister of State in the Ministry of Jal Shakti; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways.

10. Dr. Chandra Sekhar – Pemmasani Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Development; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Communications.

11. Prof. S. P. Singh Baghel – Minister of State in the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Panchayati Raj.

12. Sushri Sobha Karandlaje – Minister of State in the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Labour and Employment.

13. Kirtivardhan Singh – Minister of State in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change; and Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs.

14. B. L. Verma – Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.

15. Shantanu Thakur – Minister of State in the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways.

16. Suresh Gopi – Minister of State in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Tourism.

17. Dr. L. Murugan – Minister of State in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs.

18. Ajay Tamta – Minister of State in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. 19. Shri Bandi Sanjay Kumar Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs

20. Kamlesh Paswan – Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Development

21. Bhagirath Choudhary – Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare

22. Satish Chandra Dubey – Minister of State in the Ministry of Coal; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Mines.

23. Sanjay Seth – Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence.

24. Ravneet Singh – Minister of State in the Ministry of Food Processing Industries; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways

25. Durgadas Uikey – Minister of State in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs.

26. Raksha Nikhil Khadse – Minister of State in the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.

27. Sukanta Majumdar – Minister of State in the Ministry of Education; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region. 28. Savitri Thakur Minister of State in the Ministry of Women and Child Development.

29. Tokhan Sahu – Minister of State in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. 30. Shri Raj Bhushan Choudhary Minister of State in the Ministry of Jal Shakti.

31. Bhupathi Raju Srinivasa Varma – Minister of State in the Ministry of Heavy Industries; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Steel.

32. Harsh Malhotra – Minister of State in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.

33. Nimuben Jayantibhai Bambhaniya – Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.

34. Murlidhar Mohol – Minister of State in the Ministry of Cooperation; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Civil Aviation.

35. George Kurian – Minister of State in the Ministry of Minority Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying.

36. Pabitra Margherita – Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Textiles.