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
