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Union Council of Ministers
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The Union Council of Ministers exercises executive authority in the Republic of India.[1] It consists of senior
ministers, called "Cabinet Ministers", and junior ministers, called "Ministers of State". It is led by the Prime
Minister. A smaller executive body, called the Union Cabinet is the decision­making body in India.[2] Only the
Prime Minister and ministers of the rank of "Cabinet Minister" are members of the Cabinet. The most senior civil
servant in India, called the Cabinet Secretary, leads the Cabinet Secretariat, and provides administrative assistance
to the Council of Ministers, attends and convene its meetings thus making him ex­officio Secretary to the Union
Council of Ministers .[3] Ministers of State are tasked with assisting Cabinet Ministers in their work.[4]

Contents
1 Regulations
2 Ranking
3 Current ministry
3.1 Cabinet Ministers
3.2 Ministers of State
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

Regulations
As a collective, the Council of Ministers is responsible to the lower house of the Indian Parliament, called the Lok
Sabha (House of People).[1] According to the Constitution of India, the total number of ministers in the Council of
Ministers must not exceed 15% of the total number of members of the House of the People. Ministers must be
members of parliament. Any minister who is not a member of either the lower or upper houses of parliament for
six consecutive months is automatically stripped of his or her ministerial post.[1]

Ranking
There are three categories of ministers, in descending order of rank:

Cabinet Minister: member of cabinet; leads a ministry
Minister of State (Independent Charges): junior minister not reporting to a cabinet minister
Minister of State (MoS): junior minister reporting to a cabinet minister, usually tasked with a specific
responsibility in that ministry

Current ministry
As a collective, each successive Council of Ministers is referred to as a ministry. The current ministry is led by
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who took office on 26 May 2014.

Cabinet Ministers
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Source:[5][6]
Key

India cabinet ministers information­2014

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Took  Left 
Portfolio Minister Party
office office
Prime Minister
Minister of Personnel, Public Grievances
and Pensions
26 May
Department of Atomic Energy    Narendra Modi Incumbent BJP  
2014
Department of Space
All important policy issues and all other portfolios not
allocated to any Minister.
26 May
Minister of Home Affairs   Rajnath Singh Incumbent BJP  
2014
26 May
Minister of External Affairs   Sushma Swaraj Incumbent BJP  
2014
26 May 7 January This Ministry was merged with
Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs   Sushma Swaraj BJP
2014 2016 Ministry of External Affairs
Minister of Finance 26 May
  Arun Jaitley Incumbent BJP  
Minister of Corporate Affairs 2014
9
26 May
  Arun Jaitley November BJP  
2014
2014
Minister of Defence
9
  Manohar Parrikar November Incumbent BJP  
2014
9
Prakash 26 May [7]
  November BJP
Javadekar 2014
2014
9
Minister of Information and Broadcasting 5 July
  Arun Jaitley November BJP  
2016
2014
5 July [8]
  Venkaiah Naidu Incumbent BJP
2016
9
D. V. Sadananda 26 May
  November BJP  
Gowda 2014
2014
Minister of Railways
9
  Suresh Prabhu November Incumbent BJP  
2014
Minister of Urban Development
26 May
Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty   Venkaiah Naidu Incumbent BJP  
2014
Alleviation
Minister of Road Transport and Highways  26 May
  Nitin Gadkari Incumbent BJP  
Minister of Shipping 2014
9
Ravi Shankar 26 May
  November BJP  
Prasad 2014
2014
9
Minister of Law and Justice D.V. Sadananda 5 July
  November BJP  
Gowda 2016
2014
Ravi Shankar 5 July
  Incumbent BJP  
Prasad 2016
Minister of Electronics and Information Ravi Shankar 26 May
  Incumbent BJP  
Technology Prasad 2014
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Minister of Water Resources, River 26 May
  Uma Bharati Incumbent BJP  
Development and Ganga Rejuvenation 2014
26 May 12 July Currently Minister of state in
Minister of Minority Affairs   Najma A. Heptulla BJP
2014 2016 charge[9]
26 May 3 June
  Gopinath Munde BJP  
2014 2014[†]
9
4 June [10]
  Nitin Gadkari November BJP
Minister of Rural Development 2014
2014
Minister of Panchayati Raj
Minister of Drinking Water and Sanitation 9
5 July [11]
  Birender Singh November BJP
2016
2014
Narendra Singh 5 July
  Incumbent BJP  
Tomar 2016
Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and 26 May
  Ram Vilas Paswan Incumbent LJP  
Public Distribution 2014
Minister of Micro, Small and Medium 26 May
  Kalraj Mishra Incumbent BJP  
Enterprises 2014
26 May
Minister of Women and Child Development   Maneka Gandhi Incumbent BJP  
2014
26 May 5 July
  Venkaiah Naidu BJP  
2014 2016
Minister of Parliamentary Affairs
5 July
  Ananth Kumar Incumbent BJP  
2016
26 May
Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers   Ananth Kumar Incumbent BJP  
2014
Ashok Gajapathi 26 May
Minister of Civil Aviation   Incumbent TDP  
Raju Pusapati 2014
Minister of Heavy Industries and Public 26 May Shiv
  Anant Geete Incumbent  
Enterprises 2014 Sena
Harsimrat Kaur 26 May
Minister of Food Processing Industries   Incumbent SAD  
Badal 2014
Narendra Singh 26 May 5 July
  BJP  
Tomar 2014 2016
Minister of Steel
Chaudhary 5 July
  Incumbent BJP  
Birender Singh 2016
9
Narendra Singh 26 May Currently Minister of state in
Minister of Labour and Employment   November BJP
Tomar 2014 charge
2014
26 May
Minister of Tribal Affairs   Jual Oram Incumbent BJP  
2014
Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Radha Mohan 26 May
  Incumbent BJP  
Welfare Singh 2014
Minister of Social Justice and Thawar Chand 26 May
  Incumbent BJP  
Empowerment Gehlot 2014
26 May 5 July
  Smriti Irani BJP  
2014 2016
Minister of Human Resource Development
Prakash 5 July [8]
  Incumbent BJP
Javadekar 2016
9
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Minister of Science and Technology   Harsh Vardhan November Incumbent BJP  

2014
9
4 June
  Harsh Vardhan November BJP  
2014
2014
Minister Of Health and Family Welfare
9
Jagat Prakash [12]
  November Incumbent BJP
Nadda
2014
5 July
Minister of Textiles   Smriti Irani Incumbent BJP  
2016
Minister of Statistics and Programme D. V. Sadananda 5 July
  Incumbent BJP  
Implementation Gowda 2016

Ministers of State

Note : *Indicates Minister of State having Independent charge

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Bandaru
Labour and Employment*
Dattatreya
Anil Madhav
Environment, Forest and Climate Change*
Dave
Dharmendra
Petroleum and Natural Gas*
Pradhan
Mukhtar Abbas
Minority Affairs*
Naqvi
Bandaru
Labour and Employment*
Dattatreya
Faggan Singh
Health & Family Welfare
Kulaste
Babul Supriyo Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises
Ajay Tamta Textiles
Giriraj Singh Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
Arjun Ram
Finance, Corporate Affairs
Meghwal
Hansraj
Home Affairs
Gangaram Ahir
Jasvantsinh
Sumanbhai Tribal Affairs
Bhabhor
Jayant Sinha Civil Aviation
Ramesh
Chandappa Drinking Water & Sanitation
Jigajinagi
Development of North Eastern Region*, Prime Minister's Office, Personnel, Public
Jitendra Singh
Grievances & Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space
Subhash Bhamre Defence
Haribhai
Parthibhai Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
Chaudhary
P P Choudhary Law & Justice, Electronics & Information Technology
Kiren Rijiju Home Affairs
Ramdas Athawale Social Justice & Empowerment
Krishan Pal Social Justice & Empowerment
Anupriya Patel Health & Family Welfare
Krishna Raj Women & Child Development
Nirmala
Commerce and Industry*
Sitharaman
Chhotu Ram
Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution
Chaudhary
Mahesh Sharma Culture*, Tourism*

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SS Ahluwalia Agriculture & Farmer Welfare, Parliamentary Affairs
Manoj Sinha Railways, Communications*
M. J. Akbar External Affairs
Mukhtar Abbas
Minority Affairs*, Parliamentary Affairs
Naqvi
Vijay Goel Youth Affairs and Sports*, Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation
Piyush Goyal Power*, Coal*, New and Renewable Energy*, Mines*
Rajen Gohain Railways
Pon
Road Transport & Highways,
Radhakrishnan
Parsottambhai
Agriculture & Farmer Welfare, Panchayati Raj
Rupala
Rajiv Pratap Rudy Skill Development & Entrepreneurship*
Rajyavardhan
Information & Broadcasting
Singh Rathore
Ram Kripal Yadav Rural Development
Rao Inderjit Singh Planning*, Urban Development Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation
Sadhvi Niranjan
Food Processing Industries
Jyoti
Sanjeev Kumar
Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation
Balyan
Santosh Gangwar Finance
Shripad Yasso
AAYUSH*,
Naik
Sudarshan Bhagat Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
Upendra
Human Resource Development
Kushwaha
Vijay Kumar
External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs
Singh
Vijay Sampla Social Justice & Empowerment
Vishnu Deo Sai Steel
Y. S. Chowdary Science and Technology, Earth Science

See also
Politics of India
National Democratic Alliance
Council of Ministers of Narendra Modi
Template:Modi ministry

References
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1. Wikisource:Constitution of India/Part V#Article 74 .7BCouncil of Ministers to aid and advise President.7D
2. Wikisource:Constitution of India/Part XVIII
3. "Functions of Cabinet Secretariat". Retrieved 31 January 2012.
4. Jacob, Jayanth (28 May 2009). "Ministers of state need not worry". The Telegraph. Retrieved 27 May 2014.
5. http://india.gov.in/spotlight/union­council­ministers
6. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Full­list­PM­Modis­new­look­Cabinet/articleshow/53067400.cms%7CFull list:
PM Modi's new­look Cabinet
7. "Shri Prakash Javadekar assumes charge as Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Information & Broadcasting".
Press Information Bureau. 27 May 2014. Retrieved 6 July 2016.
8. "Smriti Irani out of HRD, Venkaiah Naidu gets I&B ministry". Indian Express. New Delhi. 5 July 2016. Retrieved 5 July
2016.
9. http://pib.nic.in/newsite/mbErel.aspx?relid=147013
10. "Nitin Gadkari given additional charge of portfolios held by Gopinath Munde". The Indian Express.
11. "Modi Cabinet rejig: Manohar Parrikar new Defence Minister, Suresh Prabhu gets Railways". Zee News.
12. http://zeenews.india.com/news/health/health­news/jagat­prakash­nadda­replaces­harsh­vardhan­as­health­
minister_1496529.html

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