Modi Cabinet reshuffle: Smriti moved out of HRD

Union Minister Smriti Irani has been politely shifted out of the highly controversial (at least under her) Human Resources and Development Ministry. Her place has been taken by Prakash Javadekar - who has been causing problems in his former role as Environment Minister. 

Smriti Irani, however, has not been shunted out of the cabinet wholly. She has been shifted to the Textile Ministry. Among other new faces, MJ Akbar has been appointed as a Minister of State (MoS) in the External Affairs ministry under Sushma Swaraj - who was absent from the swearing-in ceremony.

Venkaiah Naidu has been removed from Parliamentary Affairs and is the new I&B minister, the role formerly held by Arun Jaitley - who retains his Finance and Corporate Affairs portfolios. M Venkaiah Naidu still maintains Urban Development under his wing. 

Anant Kumar gets Parliamentary affairs, which was with M Venkaiah Naidu, in addition to Chemicals and Fertilisers. Sadananda Gowda has been shifted out of the Law Ministry, which will now be handled by Ravi Shankar Prasad.

Cabinet Ministers:

1. Rajnath Singh: Home Affairs

2. Sushma Swaraj: External Affairs

3. Arun Jaitley: Finance and Corporate Affairs

4. M. Venkaiah Naidu: Urban Development Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation and Information & Broadcasting

5. Nitin Jairam Gadkari: Road Transport and Highways Shipping

6. Manohar Parrikar: Defence

7. Suresh Prabhu: Railways

8. DV Sadananda Gowda: Statistics & Programme Implementation

9. Uma Bharati: Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation

10. Dr Najma A. Heptulla: Minority Affairs

11. Ramvilas Paswan: Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution

12. Kalraj Mishra: Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises

13. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi: Women & Child Development

14. Ananthkumar: Chemicals & Fertilisers and Parliamentary Affairs

15. Ravi Shankar Prasad: Law & Justice, Electronics & Information Technology

16. Jagat Prakash Nadda: Health & Family Welfare

17. Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati: Civil Aviation

18. Anant Geete: Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises

19. Harsimrat Kaur Badal: Food Processing Industries

20. Narendra Singh Tomar: Rural Development

21. Chaudhary Birender Singh: Steel

22. Jual Oram: Tribal Affairs

23. Radha Mohan Singh: Agriculture & Farmers Welfare

24. Thaawar Chand Gehlot: Social Justice and Empowerment

25. Smriti Zubin Irani: Textiles

26. Dr Harsh Vardhan: Science & Technology, Earth Sciences

27. Prakash Javadekar: Human Resource Development

Ministers of State: 

28. Rao Inderjit Singh: Planning (Independent Charge)/Urban Development

29. Bandaru Dattatreya: Labour & Employment (Independent Charge)

30. Rajiv Pratap Rudy: Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (Independent Charge)

31. Vijay Goel Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge)

32. Shripad Yesso Naik: AAYUSH (Independent Charge)

33. Dharmendra Pradhan: Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)

34. Piyush Goyal: Power/Coal/Renewable/Mines (Independent Charge)

35. Jitendra Singh: Development of North Eastern Region (Independent Charge)/PMO/Department of Atomic Energy/Department of Space

36. Nirmala Sitharaman: Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge)

37. Mahesh Sharma: Culture/Tourism (Independent Charge)

38. Manoj Sinha Communications (Independent Charge)/Railways

39. Anil Madhav Dave: Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge)

40. VK Singh: External Affairs

41. Santosh Kumar Gangwar: Finance

42. Faggan Singh Kulaste: Health & Family Welfare

43. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi: Minority Affairs/Parliamentary Affairs

44. SS Ahluwalia: Agriculture & Farmers Welfare/Parliamentary Affairs

45. Ramdas Athawale: Social Justice & Empowerment

46. Ram Kripal Yadav: Rural Development

47. Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary: Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises

48. Giriraj Singh: Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises

49. Hansraj Gangaram Ahir: Home Affairs

50. GM Siddeshwara: Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises

51. Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi: Drinking Water & Sanitation

52. Rajen Gohain: Railways

53. Parshottam Rupala: Agriculture & Farmers Welfare/Panchayati Raj

54. MJ Akbar: External Affairs

55. Upendra Kushwaha: Human Resources Development

56. Radhakrishnan P: Road Transport & Highways/Shipping