The biggest surprise of all is newly-inducted Ashwini Vaishnaw who has been given two meaty portfolios - Railways and IT and Communication.
Effecting a big reset, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday brought in Sarbananda Sonowal, Narayan Rane and Jyotiraditya Scindia as Cabinet ministers while dropping as many as 12 ministers including Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, IT and Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and I&B Minister Prakash Javadekar. As many as 15 Cabinet ministers, including some new faces, were sworn in at the swearing-in ceremony held in the Darbar Hall of the Rashtrapati Bhawan.
There are 53 union ministries. However, these ministries will be handled only by 30 Cabinet Ministers and two Ministers of State with Independent Charge.
Top government sources say this is being done to bring synergies between ministries that have similar or overlapping domains. Silos between ministries that help achieve a common objective will be broken down and an efficient, whole of government approach will be enabled with the new work allocation.
For example, the Health Ministry and the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers will now be handled by the same minister. Pharmaceuticals and other drugs are essential in the health domain and it made eminent sense to have the same minister handle both portfolios.
Similar approach has been adopted in other domain ministries as well wherever such clubbing was necessary.
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Core team intact
- PM Modi will oversee the Ministry of Science. The Minister of State (PMO) will be the minister in charge.
- Home Minister Amit Shah has been given charge of the newly-formed Ministry of Cooperation. He also is the Minister of Home Affairs.
- Rajnath Singh will continue as the Minister of Defence
- Nitin Jairam Gadkari will remain the Minister of Road Transport and Highways
- Nirmala Sitharaman retains Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Corporate Affairs
- Narendra Singh Tomar is the Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
- Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar will also retain the External Affairs ministry
- Arjun Munda is the Minister of Tribal Affairs.
The big zingers
- Nisith Pramanik has been appointed the Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.
- Pralhad Joshi is the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Minister of Coal and the Minister of Mines.
- Narayan Tatu Rane has the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises ministry.
- Sarbananda Sonowal has been made the Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways; and the Minister of AYUSH.
- Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi will handle the Minority Affairs ministry.
- Dr. Virendra Kumar is the Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment.
- Giriraj Singh will handle charge of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj
- Ramchandra Prasad Singh is the Minister of Steel
Ministers of state (Independent charge)
- Rao Inderjit Singh – Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Planning; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs
- 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.
Ministers of state
- Prahalad Singh Patel – Minister of State in the Ministry of Jal Shakti, andMinister of State in the Ministry of Food Processing Industries
- 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
- Arjun Ram Meghwal – Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, and Minister of State in the Ministry of Culture
- General (Retd) VK Singh – Minister of State in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, and Minister of State in the Ministry of Civil Aviation
- Krishan Pal – Minister of State in the Ministry of Power, and Minister of State in the Ministry of Heavy Industries
- 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
- Ramdas Athawale – Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
- 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
- Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan – Minister of State in the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying
- Nityanand Rai – Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs
- Pankaj Chaowdhary – Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance
- Anupriya Singh Patel – Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry
- Prof SP Singh Baghel – Minister of State in the Ministry of Law and Justice
- 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
- Shobha Karandlaje – Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
- Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma – Minister of State in the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
- Darshana Vikram Jardosh – Minister of State in the Ministry of Textiles; andMinister of State in the Ministry of Railways
- V Muraleedharan – Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs; andMinister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs
- Meenakashi Lekhi – Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs; andMinister of State in the Ministry of Culture
- Som Parkash – Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry
- Renuka Singh Saruta – Minister of State in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs
- Rameswar Teli – Minister of State in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Labour and Employment
- Kailash Choudhary – Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
- Annpurna Devi – Minister of State in the Ministry of Education
- A. Narayanaswamy – Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
- Kaushal Kishore – Minister of State in the Ministry of Housing and Urban AffairsAjay Bhatt – Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Tourism
- BL Verma – Minister of State in the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Cooperation
- Ajay Kumar – Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs
- Devisinh Chauhan – Minister of State in the Ministry of Communications
- Bhagwanth Khuba – Minister of State in the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, and Minister of State in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers
- Kapil Moreshwar Patil – Minister of State in the Ministry of Panchayati RajPratima Bhoumik – Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
- Dr. Subhas Sarkar – Minister of State in the Ministry of Education
- Dr. Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad – Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance
- Dr. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh – Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Education
- Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar – Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
- Bishweswar Tudu – Minister of State in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs; andMinister of State in the Ministry of Jal Shakti
- Shantanu Thakur – Minister of State in the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways
- Dr. Munjapara Mahendrabhai – Minister of State in the Ministry of Women and Child Development; and Minister of State in the Ministry of AYUSH
- John Barla – Minister of State in the Ministry of Minority Affairs
- 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
- Nisith Pramanik – Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs; andMinister of State in the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
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