Union Council of Ministers of India
The Union Council of Ministers exercises executive authority in the Republic of India. 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 Cabinetis the supreme decision-making body in India 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. Ministers of State are tasked with assisting Cabinet Ministers in their work
Contents
- 1Regulations
- 2Ranking
- 3Current ministry
- 1Cabinet Ministers[5]
- 2Ministers of State
Regulations
As a collective, the Council of Ministers is responsible to the lower house of the Indian Parliament, called the House of the People 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.
Ranking
There are three categories of ministers, in descending order of rank:
- Cabinet Minister: member of school
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
Main article: Narendra Modi 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
- Died in office
- Resigned
| Portfolio | Minister | office Took | office Left | Party | ||
| Prime Minister Minister of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Department of Atomic Energy Department of Space All important policy issues and all other portfolios not allocated to any Minister. |
Narendra Modi | 26 May 2014 | Incumbent | BJP | ||
| Minister of Home Affairs | Rajnath Singh | 26 May 2014 | Incumbent | BJP | ||
| Minister of External Affairs Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs |
Sushma Swaraj | 26 May 2014 | Incumbent | BJP | ||
| Minister of Finance | Arun Jaitley | 26 May 2014 | Incumbent | BJP | ||
| Minister of Defence | Arun Jaitley | 26 May 2014 | 9 November 2014 | BJP | ||
| Manohar Parrikar | 9 November 2014 | Incumbent | BJP | |||
| Minister of Information and Broadcasting | Arun Jaitley | 9 November 2014 | Incumbent | BJP | ||
| Minister of Railways | D. V. Sadananda Gowda | 26 May 2014 | 9 November 2014 | BJP | ||
| Suresh Prabhu | 9 November 2014 | Incumbent | BJP | |||
| Minister of Urban Development Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Minister of Parliamentary Affairs |
Venkaiah Naidu | 26 May 2014 | Incumbent | BJP | ||
| Minister of Road Transport and Highways Minister of Shipping |
Nitin Gadkari | 26 May 2014 | Incumbent | BJP | ||
| Minister of Law and Justice | Ravi Shankar Prasad | 26 May 2014 | 9 November 2014 | BJP | ||
| D.V. Sadananda Gowda | 9 November 2014 | Incumbent | BJP | |||
| Minister of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation | Uma Bharati | 26 May 2014 | Incumbent | BJP | ||
| Minister of Minority Affairs | Najma Heptulla | 26 May 2014 | Incumbent | BJP | ||
| Minister of Rural Development Minister of Panchayati Raj Minister of Drinking Water and Sanitation |
Gopinath Munde | 26 May 2014 | 3 June 2014[†] | BJP | ||
| Nitin Gadkari | 4 June 2014 | 9 November 2014 | BJP | |||
| Birender Singh | 9 November 2014 | Incumbent | BJP | |||
| Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution | Ram Vilas Paswan | 26 May 2014 | Incumbent | LJP | ||
| Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises | Kalraj Mishra | 26 May 2014 | Incumbent | BJP | ||
| Minister of Women and Child Development | Maneka Gandhi | 26 May 2014 | Incumbent | BJP | ||
| Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers | Ananth Kumar | 26 May 2014 | Incumbent | BJP | ||
| Minister of Communications and Information Technology | Ravi Shankar Prasad | 26 May 2014 | Incumbent | BJP | ||
| Minister of Civil Aviation | Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati | 26 May 2014 | Incumbent | TDP | ||
| Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises | Anant Geete | 26 May 2014 | Incumbent | Shiv Sena | ||
| Minister of Food Processing Industries | Harsimrat Kaur Badal | 26 May 2014 | Incumbent | SAD | ||
| Minister of Mines Minister of Steel |
Narendra Singh Tomar | 26 May 2014 | Incumbent | BJP | ||
| Minister of Labour and Employment | Narendra Singh Tomar | 26 May 2014 | 9 November 2014 | BJP | ||
| Bandaru Dattatreya | 9 November 2014 | Incumbent | BJP | |||
| Minister of Tribal Affairs | Jual Oram | 26 May 2014 | Incumbent | BJP | ||
| Minister of Agriculture | Radha Mohan Singh | 26 May 2014 | Incumbent | BJP | ||
| Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment | Thawar Chand Gehlot | 26 May 2014 | Incumbent | BJP | ||
| Minister of Human Resource Development | Smriti Irani | 26 May 2014 | Incumbent | BJP | ||
| Minister of Science and Technology | Harsh Vardhan | 9 November 2014 | Incumbent | BJP | ||
| Minister Of Health and Family Welfare | Harsh Vardhan | 4 June 2014 | 9 November 2014 | BJP | ||
| Jagat Prakash Nadda | 9 November 2014 | Incumbent | BJP | |||
Ministers of State
| Bandaru Dattatreya | Labour and Employment* |
| Dharmendra Pradhan | Petroleum and Natural Gas* |
| G. M. Sideshwara | Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises |
| Giriraj Singh | Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises |
| Ravi Anand | Chemicals & Fertilizers |
| Jayant Sinha | Finance |
| Jitendra Singh | Development of North Eastern Region*, Prime Minister’s Office, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space |
| Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary | Home Affairs |
| Kiren Rijiju | Home Affairs |
| Krishan Pal | Social Justice & Empowerment |
| Nihalchand | Panchayati Raj |
| Nirmala Sitharaman | Commerce and Industry* |
| Mahesh Sharma | Culture*, Tourism*, Civil Aviation |
| Manoj Sinha | Railways |
| Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava | Tribal Affairs |
| Mohanbhai Kalyanjibhai Kundariya | Agriculture |
| Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi | Minority Affairs, Parliamentary Affairs |
| Prakash Javadekar | Environment, Forest and Climate Change,Minister of Information and Broadcasting |
| Piyush Goyal | Power*, Coal*, New and Renewable Energy* |
| Pon Radhakrishnan | Road Transport & Highways, Shipping |
| Rajiv Pratap Rudy | Skill Development & Entrepreneurship*, Parliamentary Affairs |
| Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore | Information & Broadcasting |
| Ram Kripal Yadav | Drinking Water & Sanitation |
| Ram Shankar Katheria | Human Resource Development |
| Rao Inderjit Singh | Planning*, Defence |
| Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti | Food Processing Industries |
| Sanjeev Kumar Balyan | Agriculture |
| Santosh Gangwar | Textiles* |
| Sanwar Lal Jat | Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation |
| Sarbananda Sonowal | Youth Affairs and Sports* |
| Shripad Yasso Naik | AAYUSH*, Health & Family Welfare |
| Sudarshan Bhagat | Rural Development |
| Babul Supriyo | Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation |
| Upendra Kushwaha | Human Resource Development |
| Vijay Kumar Singh | Statistics and Programme Implementation*, External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs |
| Vijay Sampla | Social Justice & Empowerment |
| Vishnu Deo Sai | Mines, Steel |
| Y. S. Chowdary | Science and Technology, Earth Science |