Modi government allocates portfolios to new ministers:

Modi government allocates portfolios to new ministers:

Amit Shah gets Home Ministry,

Nirmala Sitharaman Finance

A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his 57-member council of ministers were sworn in by President Ram Nath Kovind yesterday, Modi government today allocated portfolio to his new ministers. Nirmala Sitharama has got the key Finance Ministry and Amit Shah has got Home Ministry while Rajnath Singh has been given the responsibility of Defence Ministry.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with his other Cabinet colleagues were sworn in by the President at a grand function yesterday at Rashtrapati Bhavan. The Union Cabinet for the 17th Lok Sabha includes 24 cabinet ministers, 9 ministers of state with independent charge and 24 Ministers of State (MoS).

Here is the list of portfolios allocated to the new ministers:

PM Narendra ModiMinistry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy;
Department of Space; and All important policy issues; and All other portfolios not allocated to any Minister.

Amit ShahMinister of Home Affairs

Rajnath SinghMinister of Defence

Nitin GadkariMinister of Road Transport & Highways, Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

Nirmala SitharamanMinister of Finance

Piyush GoyalMinister of Railways and Commerce and Industry

S JaishankarMinister of External Affairs

Ravi Shankar PrasadMinister of Law; Communication and IT
Ramesh PokhriyalMinister of Human Resource Development

Narendra Singh TomarMinister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Panchayati Raj

Smriti IraniMinistry of Women and Child Development; Minister of Textiles.

Ram Vilas PaswwanMinister of Consumer Affairs; Food and Public Distribution

Dharmendra PrasadMinistry of Petroleum and Natural Gas; and Minister of Steel

D.V. Sadananda GowdaMinister of Chemicals and Fertilizers.

Harsimrat Kaur BadalMinister of Food Processing Industries

Thaawar Chand GehlotMinister of Social Justice and Empowerment

Arjun MundaMinister of Tribal Affairs

Harsh VardhanMinister of Health and Family Welfare; Minister of Science and Technology; and Minister of Earth Sciences

Prakash JavadekarMinister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change; and Information and Broadcasting

Mukhtar Abbas NaqviMinister of Minority Affairs

Prahlad JoshiMinister of Parliamentary Affairs; Coal; and Minister of Mines

Mahendra Nath PandeyMinister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship

Arvind Ganpat SawantMinister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprise

Giriraj SinghMinister of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries