Portfolio of Ministers of Modi 3.0 Government

Utkarsh Classes Last Updated 11-06-2024

Portfolio of Ministers of Modi 3.0 Government

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The Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government was sworn in by President Droupadi Murmu on 10 June 2024. It was the third consecutive term for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government. President Murmu also swore in a strong 72-member council of ministers, including the Prime Minister. Later, the government announced the portfolios of the Council of Ministers.

Cabinet Committee on Security

The Cabinet is the most important decision-making body of the Union Council of Ministers, To expedite the decision-making process, the Union Cabinet has several cabinet subcommittees. Last Modi government had seven sub-committees. Only the cabinet ministers are the members of the cabinet sub-committee.

The Cabinet Committee on Security is considered to be the most important subcommittee of the cabinet, where important decisions are taken by the government of India. This year, there has been no change in the composition of the Cabinet Committee on Security.

The Prime Minister is the chairman of the Council of Ministers and heads all cabinet or cabinet subcommittee meetings.

Apart from the Prime Minister, the Cabinet Committee on Security includes:

Defence Minister Raj Nath Singh,
Home Minister Amit Shah,
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and
External Affairs Minister Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.

Portfolios of the Union Council of Ministers

The Modi 3.0 government has 72 ministers- 31 cabinet ministers and 41 ministers of state, including five with independent charge. The Prime Minister, who is also the head of the Council of Ministers, allocates the ministers' portfolios.

Cabinet Ministers

Thirty-one ministers, including the Prime Minister, have been sworn in as Cabinet ministers in the Modi 3.0 government. The following are the names of the ministers, their portfolios, the constituency from which they were elected, and the political parties to which they belong.

Serial Number	Person	Ministry	Constituency and State
1.	Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry 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.	Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh). He originally belongs to Gujarat.
2.	Raj Nath Singh (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Defence Ministry	Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh)
3.	Amit Shah (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Home Affairs and Ministry of Cooperation	Gandhinagar (Gujarat)
4.	Nirmala Sitharaman (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Finance Corporate Affairs	Rajya Sabha (Karnataka ). She is originally from Tamil Nadu.
5.	Nitin Gadkari (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Road Transport and Highways	Nagpur (Maharashtra)
6.	Jagat Parkash Nadda (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Health and Family Welfare; Chemicals and Fertilizers	Rajya Sabha (Himachal Pradesh)
7.	Shivraj Singh Chouhan (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare; Rural Development.	Vidisha (Madhya Pradesh)
8.	Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of External Affairs	Rajya Sabha (Gujarat)
9.	Manohar Lal Khattar (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. Ministry of Power.	Karnal (Haryana )
10.	Piyush Goel (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Commerce and Industry	Mumbai North (Maharashtra)
11	Dharmendra Pradhan (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Education	Sambalpur (Odisha)
12	Sarbananda Sonowal (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways.	Dibrugarh (Assam)
13	Dr. Virendra Kumar (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.	Tikamgarh (Madhya Pradesh)
14	Pralhad Joshi (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution; Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.	Dharwad-Hubballi (Karnataka )
15	Jual Oram (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Tribal Affairs.	Sundergarh (Odisha)
16	Giriraj Singh (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Textiles.	Begusarai (Bihar)
17	Ashwini Vaishnaw (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Railways; Ministry of Information and Broadcasting; Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.	Rajya Sabha (Odisha)
18	Jyotiraditya M. Scindia (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Communications; Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region.	Guna (Madhya Pradesh)
19	Bhupender Yadav (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.	Alwar (Rajasthan)
20	Gajendra Singh Shekhawat (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Tourism.	Jodhpur (Rajasthan)
21	Annapurna Devi (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Women and Child Development	Kodarma (Jharkhand)
22	Kiren Rijiju (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs Ministry of Minority Affairs.	Arunachal West (Arunachal Pradesh)
23	Hardeep Singh Puri (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas	Rajya Sabha (Uttar Pradesh)
24	Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Labour and Employment; Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.	Porbandar (Gujarat)
25	G. Kishan Reddy (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Coal; Ministry of Mines.	Secunderabad (Telangana)
26	C R Patil (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Jal Shakti.	Navsari (Gujarat)
27	H. D. Kumaraswamy (Janata Dal (Secular) )	Ministry of Heavy Industries; Ministry of Steel.	Mandaya (Karnataka)
28	Jitan Ram Manjhi (Hindustani Awami Morcha)	Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.	Gaya (Bihar)
29	Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh (Janata Dal (United))	Ministry of Panchayati Raj; Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying.	Munger (Bihar)
30	Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu (Telugu Desam Party)	Ministry of Civil Aviation.	Srikakulam (Andhra Pradesh)
31	Chirag Paswan (Lok Janshakti Party )	Ministry of Food Processing Industries.	Hajipur (Bihar)

Ministers of State (Independent Charge )

Five ministers were sworn in as the Ministers of State with Independent charge. The following are the names of the ministers, their portfolios, the constituency from which they were elected, and the political parties to which they belong.

Serial Number	Person	Ministry	Constituency and State
1.	Rao Inderjit Singh (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation; Ministry of Planning; and Ministry of Culture.	Gurgaon (Haryana)
2	Dr. Jitendra Singh (Bharatiya Janata Party))	Ministry of Science and Technology; Ministry of Earth Sciences; Prime Minister’s Office; Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Space.	Udhampur (Jammu and Kashmir)
3	Arjun Ram Meghwal (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Law and Justice; and Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs.	Bikaner (Rajasthan)
4	Jadhav Prataprao Ganpatrao (Shiv Sena Shinde)	Ministry of Ayush, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.	Buldhana (Maharashtra)
5	Jayant Chaudhary (Rashtriya Lok Dal)	Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship; Ministry of Education.	Rajya Sabha (Uttar Pradesh)

Minister of State

The Modi 3.0 government has 36 Ministers of State. The following are the names of the ministers, their portfolios, the constituency from which they were elected, and the political parties to which they belong.

Serial number	Person	Ministry	Constituency and State
1	Jitin Prasada (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Commerce and Industry; Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.	Pilibhit (Uttar Pradesh)
2	Shripad Yesso Naik (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Power. Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.	North Goa (Goa)
3	Pankaj Chaudhary (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Finance	Maharajganj (Uttar Pradesh)
4	Krishan Pal Gujar (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Cooperation.	Faridabad (Haryana)
5	Ramdas Athawale (Republican Party of India)	Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.	Rajya Sabha (Maharashtra)
6	Ram Nath Thakur(Janata Dal (United))	Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.	Rajya Sabha (Bihar)
7	Nityanand Rai (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Home Affairs.	Ujiarpur (Bihar)
8	Anupriya Patel (Apna Dal (Soneylal))	Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers.	Mirzapur (Uttar Pradesh)
10	V. Somanna (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Jal Shakti; Ministry of Railways.	Tumkur (Karnataka)
11	Dr. Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani( Telugu Desam Party)	Ministry of Rural Development, Ministry of Communications.	Guntur (Andhra Pradesh)
12	S. P. Singh Baghel (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying; Ministry of Panchayati Raj.	Agra (Uttar Pradesh)
13	Shobha Karandlaje (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises; Ministry of Labour and Employment.	Bangalore North (Karnataka)
14	Kirtivardhan Singh (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change; Ministry of External Affairs.	Gonda (Uttar Pradesh)
15	Banwari Lal. Verma (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution; Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.	Rajya Sabha (Uttar Pradesh)
16	Shantanu Thakur (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways.	Bangaon (West Bengal)
17	Suresh Gopi (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Ministry of Tourism.	Thrissur (Kerala)
18	Dr. L. Murugan (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Information and Broadcasting; Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs.	Rajya Sabha (Madhya Pradesh).
19	Ajay Tamta (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.	Almora (Uttrakhand)
20	Bandi Sanjay Kumar (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Home Affairs.	Karimnagar (Telangana )
21	Kamlesh Paswan (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Rural Development.	Bansgaon (Uttar Pradesh)
22	Bhagirath Choudhary (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.	Ajmer (Rajasthan)
23	Satish Chandra Dubey (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Coal; Ministry of Mines.	Rajya Sabha (Uttar Pradesh)
24	Sanjay Seth (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Defence.	Ranchi (Jharkhand)
25	Ravneet Singh Bittu (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Food Processing Industries; Ministry of Railways.	He lost the election from the Ludhiana (Punjab) constituency. At present he is not a member of any house of the parliament.
26	Durgadas Uikey(Bharatiya Janata Party	Ministry of Tribal Affairs.	Baitul (Madhya Pradesh)
27	Raksha Nikhil Khadse (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.	Raver (Maharashtra)
28	Sukanta Majumdar (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Education; Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region.	Balurghat (West Bengal)
29	Savitri Thakur (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Women and Child Development.	Dhar (Madhya Pradesh)
30	Tokhan Sahu (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.	Bilaspur (Chhattisgarh)
31	Raj Bhushan Choudhary (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Jal Shakti.	Muzaffarpur (Bihar)
32	Bhupathi Raju Srinivasa Varma (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Heavy Industries and Ministry of Steel.	Narasapuram (Andhra Pradesh)
33	Harsh Malhotra (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.	East Delhi (Delhi)
34	Nimuben Jayantibhai Bambhaniya (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.	Bhavnagar (Gujarat)
35	Murlidhar Mohol (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Cooperation; Ministry of Civil Aviation.	Pune (Maharashtra )
35	George Kurian (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of Minority Affairs, Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying.	He is from Kerala. At present is not a member of Parliament.
36.	Pabitra Margherita (Bharatiya Janata Party)	Ministry of External Affairs, Ministry of Textiles.	Rajya Sabha (Assam)