New Delhi: In a big cabinet reshuffle, Smriti Irani, the controversial Education Minister has been moved out of the Human Resource Development or HRD ministry by PM Modi and Prakash Javadekar, who has been promoted to cabinet rank, will hold the portfolio now. Irani, whose two-year tenure saw several controversies, has been moved to the Textile Ministry, seen as a less important assignment.
In another key move Modi removed lacklustre D.V. Sadananda Gowda of Karnataka as Law Minister and gave the responsibility to Ravi Shankar Prasad. Gowda has been moved to the ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation.
In other important changes made on Tuesday, Venkaiah Naidu will now be Minister for Information and Broadcasting, a portfolio held by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley as an additional charge. Naidu will no more hold charge of the Parliamentary Affairs portfolio, which will now be held by Ananth Kumar. Venkaiah Naidu retains the Urban Development Ministry.
Piyush Goel will hold Independent charge of four key ministries – Power, Coal, New and Renewable Energy and Mines.
Vijay Goel, one of 19 new ministers who took oath at the Rashtrapati Bhawan, has Youth Affairs and Sports ministry (Independent Charge), left vacant when Sarbananda Sonowal moved to Assam as chief minister in May.
Jayant Sinha has been shifted from the Finance Ministry and will now be minister of state for civil aviation. Santosh Kumar Gangwar and Arjun Ram Meghwal, who took oath today, are the new junior ministers for finance. Journalist turned politician MJ Akbar is minister of state for External Affairs.
With the induction of the new ministers today, PM Modi’s council of ministers has been expanded to 78 members.
List of portfolios of Narendra Modi government after reshuffle
Cabinet Ministers:
Rajnath Singh – Home Affairs
Sushma Swaraj – External Affairs
Arun Jaitley Finance – Corporate Affairs
M. Venkaiah Naidu – Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Information & Broadcasting
Nitin Jairam Gadkari – Road Transport and Highways, Shipping
Manohar Parrikar – Defence
Suresh Prabhu – Railways
D.V. Sadananda Gowda – Statistics & Programme Implementation
Uma Bharati – Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
Najma A. Heptulla – Minority Affairs
Ramvilas Paswan – Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
Kalraj Mishra – Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
Maneka Sanjay Gandhi – Women and Child Development
Ananth Kumar – Chemicals and Fertilisers, Parliamentary Affairs
Ravi Shankar Prasad – Law & Justice, Electronics & Information Technology
Jagat Prakash Nadda – Health & Family Welfare
Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati – Civil Aviation
Anant Geete – Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
Harsimrat Kaur Badal – Food Processing Industries
Narendra Singh Tomar – Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation
Chaudhary Birender Singh – Steel
Jual Oram – Tribal Affairs
Radha Mohan Singh – Agriculture & Farmers Welfare
Thaawar Chand Gehlot – Social Justice and Empowerment
Smriti Zubin Irani – Textiles
Harsh Vardhan – Science and Technology, Earth Sciences
Prakash Javadekar – Human Resource Development
Ministers of State:
Rao Inderjit Singh – Planning (Independent Charge), Urban Development, Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation
Bandaru Dattatreya – Labour and Employment (Independent Charge)
Rajiv Pratap Rudy – Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (Independent Charge)
Vijay Goel – Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge), Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation
Shripad Yesso Naik – AAYUSH (Independent Charge)
Dharmendra Pradhan – Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)
Piyush Goyal – Power (Independent Charge), Coal (Independent Charge), New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge), Mines (Independent Charge)
Jitendra Singh – Development of North Eastern Region (Independent Charge), Prime Minister’s Office, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space
Nirmala Sitharaman – Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge)
Mahesh Sharma – Culture (Independent Charge), Tourism (Independent Charge)
Manoj Sinha – Communications (Independent Charge), Railways
Anil Madhav Dave – Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge)
General V.K. Singh – External Affairs
Santosh Kumar Gangwar – Finance
Faggan Singh Kulaste – Health & Family Welfare
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi – Minority Affairs, Parliamentary Affairs
S.S. Ahluwalia – Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Parliamentary Affairs
Ramdas Athawale – Social Justice & Empowerment
Ram Kripal Yadav – Rural Development
Haribhai Parthbhai Chaudhary – Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
Giriraj Singh – Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
Hansraj Gangaram Ahir – Home Affairs
G.M. Siddeshwara – Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises
Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi – Drinking Water & Sanitation
Rajen Gohain – Railways
Parshottam Rupala – Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Panchayati Raj
M.J. Akbar – External Affairs
Upendra Kushwaha – Human Resources Development
Radhakrishnan P – Road Transport & Highways, Shipping
Kiren Rijiju – Home Affairs
Krishan Pal – Social Justice & Empowerment
Jasvantsinh Sumanbhai Bhabhor – Tribal Affairs
Sanjeev Kumar Balyan – Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation
Vishnu Deo Sai – Steel
Sudarshan Bhagat – Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
Y.S. Chowdary – Science and Technology, Earth Science
Jayant Sinha – Civil Aviation
Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore – Information & Broadcasting
Babul Supriyo – Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti – Food Processing Industries
Vijay Sampla – Social Justice & Empowerment
Arjun Ram Meghwal – Corporate Affairs
Mahendra Nath Pandey – Human Resource Development
Ajay Tamta – Textiles
Krishna Raj – Women & Child Development
Mansukh L. Mandaviya – Road Transport & Highways, Shipping, Chemicals & Fertilizers
Anupriya Patel – Health & Family Welfare
C.R. Chaudhary – Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution
P.P. Chaudhary – Law & Justice, Electronics & Information Technology
Subhash Ramrao Bhamre – Defence
