Cabinet Ministers of India – List and Portfolio

The head of the Republic of India is the Prime Minister who has the responsibility of governance in the country. Managing such a big country is not an easy task for a single person, so, many ministries are managing the sectors of public administration. The Prime Minister appoints the ministers for every ministry. The ministers responsible for key portfolios are the cabinet ministers or in other words, the cabinet is the team of high-ranking government officials mainly consisting of top leaders of the executive branch. The members of the cabinet are called as cabinet members. The cabinet ministers of a government are mainly responsible for the day-to-day government tasks and management. It is the supreme decision-making body in India.

Roles of Cabinet Ministers

The main roles of cabinet ministers of India are:

1. The main role of the cabinet is to keep the confidence of the parliament house.
2. The cabinet ministers are responsible for the schemes and policies of both houses (Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha).
3. Directing government policy and making decisions based on national issues.
4. Utilizing their majority work hours in discussing the problems of the country and ways to resolve it.
5. Presenting bills and proposing laws from their government departments.

Selection of Cabinet Ministers

Cabinet ministers are officially appointed by the president of India but selected by the Prime Minister. The portfolios are distributed among the ministers based on competence and interest. Apart from competence and interest, the Selection of a minister also depends on the loyalty of the minister with the ruling party and the implicit need for representing the major part of the country’s population. For example, based on caste, religion, language, etc.

The selected minister must be a member of any of the houses of the parliament of India.

List of Cabinet Ministers of India and their Portfolios

Below are the list of cabinet ministers of India and their portfolios:

Prime Minister	Portfolio
Shri Narendra Modi	Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space, All important policy issues, and other portfolios not allocated to any Minister

Cabinet Ministers of India

S.No.	Cabinet Ministers	Portfolios
1	Shri Rajnath Singh	Minister of Defence
2	Shri Amit Shah	Minister of Home Affairs Minister of Cooperation
3	Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari	Minister of Road Transport and Highways
4	Shri Nirmala Sitaraman	Minister of Finance Minister of Corporate Affairs
5	Shri Narendra Singh Tomar	Minister of Agriculture and Farmer Welfare
6	Shri S Jaishankar	Minister of External Affairs
7	Shri Arjun Munda	Minister of Tribal Affairs
8	Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani	Minister of Women and Child Development
9	Shri Piyush Goyal	Minister of Commerce and Industry Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Minister of Textiles
10	Shri Dharmendra Pradhan	Minister of Education Minister of Skill Development Entrepreneurship
11	Shri Pralhad Joshi	Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Minister of Coal Minister of Mines
12	Shri Narayan Tatu Rane	Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
13	Shri Sarbananda Sonowal	Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways Minister of AYUSH
14	Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi	Minister of Minority Affairs
15	Dr. Virendra Kumar	Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment
16	Shri Giriraj Singh	Minister of Rural Development of Panchayati
17	Shri Jyotiraditya M Scindia	Minister of Civil Aviation
18	Shri Ramchandra Prasad Singh	Minister of Steel
19	Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw	Minister of Railways Minister of Communication Minister of Electronics and Information Technology
20	Shri Pashu Pati Kumar Paras	Minister of Food Processing Industries
21	Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat	Minister of Jal Shakti
22	Shri Kiren Rijiju	Minister of Law and Justice
23	Shri Raj Kumar Singh	Minister of New and Renewable Energy
24	Shri Hardeep Sing Puri	Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs
25	Shri Mansukh Mandaviya	Minister of Health and Family Welfare Minister of Chemical and Fertilizers
26	Shri Bhupender Yadav	Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister of Labour and Employment
27	Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey	Minister of Heavy Industries
28	Shri Parshottam Rupala	Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying
29	Shri G Kishan Reddy	Minister of Culture Minister of Tourism Minister of Development of North Eastern Region
30	Shri Anurag Singh Thakur	Minister of Information and Broadcasting Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports

Ministers of State (Independent Charge)

S.No.	Ministers of State (Independent Charge)	Portfolios
1	Shri Rao Inderjit Singh	Ministry of Statics and Programme Implementation Ministry of Planning Ministry of Corporate Affairs
2	Dr. Jitendra Singh	Ministry of Science and Technology Ministry of Earth Sciences Prime Ministers Office Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Department of Atomic Energy Department of Space

Ministers of State

S.No.	Ministers of State	Portfolios
1	Shri Shripad Yesso Naik	MoS Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways MoS Ministry of Tourism
2	Shri Faggansingh Kulaste	MoS Ministry of Steel MoS Ministry of Rural Development
3	Shri Prahlad Singh Patel	MoS Ministry of Jal Shakti MoS Ministry of Food Processing Industries
4	Shri Ashwini Kumar Choubey	MoS Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution MoS Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
5	Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal	MoS Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs MoS Ministry of Culture
6	Gen (Retd.) VK Singh	MoS Road Transport and Highways MoS Ministry of Civil Aviation
7	Shri Krishan Pal	MoS Ministry of Power MoS Ministry of Heavy Industries
8	Shri Danve Raosaheb Dadarao	MoS Ministry of Railways MoS Ministry of Coal MoS Ministry of Mines
9	Shri Ramdas Athawale	MoS Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
10	Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti	MoS Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution MoS Ministry of Rural Development
11	Shri Sanjeev Kumar Balyan	MoS Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying
12	Shri Nityanand Rai	MoS for Home Affairs
13	Shri Pankaj Chaowdhary	MoS for Finance
14	Smt. Anupriya Singh Patel	MoS Ministry of Commerce and Industry
15	Prof SP Singh Baghel	MoS Ministry of Law and Justice
16	Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar	MoS Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship MoS Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
17	Smt. Shobha Karandlaje	MoS Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
18	Sadhvi Niranjan JyotiBhanu Pratap Singh Verma	MoS Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
19	Smt. Darshana Vikram Jardosh	MoS Ministry of Textiles MoS Ministry of Railways
20	Shri V. Muraleedharan	MoS External Affairs Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs
21	Smt. Meenakashi Lekhi	MoS Ministry of External Affairs MoS Ministry of Culture
22	Shri Som Parkash	MoS Ministry of Commerce and Industry
23	Smt. Renuka Singh Saruta	MoS Ministry of Tribal Affairs
24	Shri Rameswar Teli	MoS Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas MoS Ministry of Labour and Employment
25	Shri Kailash Choudhary	MoS Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
26	Smt. Annapurna Devi	MoS Ministry of Education
27	Shri A. Narayanaswamy	MoS Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
28	Shri Kaushal Kishore	MoS Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
29	Shri Ajay Bhatt	MoS Ministry of Defence MoS Ministry of Tourism
30	Shri BL Verma	MoS Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region MoS Ministry of Cooperation
31	Shri Ajay Kumar Mishra	MoS Ministry of Home Affairs
32	Shri Devusinh Chauhan	MoS Ministry of Communications
33	Shri Bhagwanth Khuba	MoS Ministry of New and Renewable Energy MoS Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers
34	Shri Kapil Moreshwar Patil	MoS Ministry of Panchayati Raj
35	Smt. Pratima Bhoumik	MoS Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
36	Shri Subhas Sarkar	MoS Ministry of Education
37	Shri Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad	MoS Ministry of Finance
38	Shri Rajkumar Ranjan Singh	MoS Ministry of External Affairs MoS Ministry of Education
39	Smt. Bharati Pravin Pawar	MoS Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
40	Shri Bishweswar Tudu	MoS Ministry of Tribal Affairs MoS Ministry of Jal Shakti
41	Shri Shantanu Thakur	MoS Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways
42	Shri Munjapara Mahendrabhai	MoS Ministry of Women and Child Development MoS Ministry of AYUSH
43	Shri John Barla	MoS Ministry of Minority Affairs
44	Shri L Murugan	MoS Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying MoS Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
45	Shri Nisith Pramanik	MoS Ministry of Home Affairs MoS Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports