The size of the Council of Ministers of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has now increased. The Union Council of Ministers was expanded and reshuffled on Wednesday. In this 36 new faces have been included while seven current ministers of state have been promoted and included in the cabinet. Eight new faces were also given the status of cabinet ministers. President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath of office and secrecy to all 43 members included in the Council of Ministers in a ceremony held at the Durbar Hall of Rashtrapati Bhavan. The portfolios of all these ministers have also been divided. So let’s increase our general knowledge by taking information about ministers and ministries.
Narendra Modi: Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space. All important policy issues and all those departments which have not been allocated to any minister.
Cabinet Minister
| Minister | Department |
| Rajnath Singh | Defense Ministry |
| Amit Shah | Home Ministry, Cooperation Ministry |
| Nitin Gadkari | Road Transport and Highways (MSME Ministry removed) |
| Nirmala Sitharaman | Finance Minister and Corporate Affairs Minister |
| Narendra Singh Tomar | Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister |
| S Jaishankar | External Affairs Minister |
| Arjun Munda | Tribal Affairs Minister |
| Smriti Irani | Women and Child Development Ministry |
| Piyush Goyal | Commerce and Industry Minister, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Minister and Textiles Minister |
| Dharmendra Pradhan | Minister of Education, Skill Development and Entrepreneurship |
| Pralhad Joshi | Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Minister of Coal, and Minister of Mines |
| Narayan Tatu Rane | Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises |
| Sarbananda Sonowal | Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, Minister of AYUSH |
| Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi | Minister of Minority Affairs |
| Virendra Kumar | Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment |
| Giriraj Singh | Minister of Rural Development, and Minister of Panchayati Raj |
| Jyotiraditya M. Scindia | Civil Aviation Minister |
| Ramchandra Prasad Singh | Steel Minister |
| Ashwini Vaishnav | Minister of Railways, Communications, and Minister of Electronics-Information Technology |
| Pashupati Kumar Paras | Minister of Food Processing, Industries |
| Gajendra Singh Shekhawat | Water Power Minister |
| Kiren Rijiju | Law and Justice Minister |
| Raj Kumar Singh | Power Minister, and Energy Minister |
| Hardeep Singh Puri | Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, and Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs |
| Mansukh Mandaviya | Minister of Health and Family Welfare, and Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers |
| Bhupendra Yadav | Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, and Labor and Employment Minister |
| Mahendra Nath Pandey | Heavy Industries Minister |
| Purushottam Rupala | Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Minister |
| G. Kishan Reddy | Minister of Culture, Minister of Tourism, and Minister of Development of North Eastern Region |
| Anurag Singh Thakur | Minister of Information and Broadcasting, and Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports |
Minister of State (Independent Charge)
1. Rao Inderjit Singh: Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Statistics and Program Implementation, Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Planning, and Minister of State in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs
. 2. Dr. Jitendra Singh: Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office, Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Minister of State in the Department of Atomic Energy; and Minister of State in the Department of Space
Minister of State
1. Shripad Yesso Naik : Minister of State in the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways and Minister of State in the Ministry of Tourism
2. Faggan Singh Kulaste : Minister of State in the Ministry of Steel, and Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Development
3. Prahlad Singh Patel : Ministry of Jal Shakti Minister of State in the U.S., and Minister of State in the Ministry of Food Processing Industries
4. Ashwini Kumar Choubey: Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, and Minister of State in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
5. Arjun Ram Meghwal: Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs Minister of State in India, and Minister of State in the Ministry of Culture
6. Gen (Retd) V.K. Singh: Minister of State in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, and Minister of State in the Ministry of Civil Aviation
7. Krishna Pal: Minister of State in the Ministry of Power, and Minister of State in the Ministry of Heavy Industries
8. Danve Raosaheb Dadarao: Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways, Minister of State in the Ministry of Coal, and Minister of State in the Ministry of Mines
9. Ramdas Athawale: Social Justice and Minister of State in the Ministry of Empowerment
10. Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti: Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, and Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Development
11. Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan: Minister of State in the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying
12. Nityanand Rai : Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs
13. Pankaj Choudhary : Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance
14. Anupriya Singh Patel : Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry
15. S. P. Singh Baghel: Minister of State in the Ministry of Law and Justice
16. Rajeev Chandrasekhar: Minister of State in the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, and Minister of State in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
17. Shobha Karandlaje: Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
18. Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma: Minister of State in the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
19. Darshana Vikram Jardosh: Minister of State in the Ministry of Textiles, and Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways
20. V. Muraleedharan: Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs, and in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs Minister of State
21. Meenakshi Lekhi: Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs, and Minister of State in the Ministry of Culture
22. Som Prakash: Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry
23. Renuka Singh Saruta: Minister of State in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs
24. Rameshwar Teli: Minister of State in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, and Minister of State in the Ministry of Labor and Employment
25. Kailash Choudhary: Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
26. Annapurna Devi: Minister of State in the Ministry of Education
27. A. Narayanaswamy: Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
28. Kaushal Kishore: Minister of State in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
29. Ajay Bhatt: Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence, and Minister of State in the Ministry of Tourism
30. BL Verma: North Eastern Region Minister of State in the Ministry of Development, and Minister of State in the Ministry of Cooperation
31. Ajay Kumar : Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs
32. Devusinh Chouhan : Minister of State in the Ministry of Communications
33. Bhagwant Khuba : Minister of State in the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, and Minister of State in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers
34 : Kapil Moreshwar Patil : Minister of State in the Ministry of Panchayati Raj
35. Pratima Bhowmik : Social Minister of State in the Ministry of Justice and Empowerment
36. Dr. Subhash Sarkar: Minister of State in the Ministry of Education
37. Dr. Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad: Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance
38. Dr. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh: Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs, and in the Ministry of Education Minister of State
39. Dr. Bharti Praveen Pawar: Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
40. Bishweshwar Tudu: Minister of State in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, and Minister of State in the Ministry of Jal Shakti
41. Shantanu Thakur: Minister of State in the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways
42. Dr. Munjapara Mahendrabhai: Minister of State in the Ministry of Women and Child Development, and Minister of State in the Ministry of AYUSH
43. John Barla: Minister of State in the Ministry of Minority Affairs
44. Dr. L. Murugan: Minister of State in the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, and Minister of State in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
45. Nisith Pramanik: Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs, and Minister of State in the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
